The novel is an indictment of the Decadent Movement for its immorality and sensationalism, yet critic Annette R. Federico
notes that the antidecadent novel is packaged as the very flower of decadence, even down to...
During this year MS
helped her husband arrange the scenes in his incest-drama, The Cenci.
Purinton, Marjean D. “Polysexualities and Romantic Generations in Mary Shelley’s Mythological Dramas <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Midas</span> and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Proserpine</span>”;. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, pp. 385-11.
388
She worked on her own fiction to distract herself when prostrated by grief after the death of her...
Publishing
Elizabeth Inchbald
She had finished writing it about two years earlier, during the revolutionary period.
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America.
108
Again she sold the copyright to Robinson
, this time for a hundred and fifty hundred pounds. She seems, however, later...
Publishing
Dorothy Richardson
When she finished the novel early in 1913, she showed it to Jack Beresford and a publisher. Neither of them was enthusiastic, so the manuscript was stored for some time. In January 1915, Beresford suggested...
Publishing
Dinah Mulock Craik
Despite the immense success of this book, DMC
continued to publish anonymously, though she took steps to set the record straight when someone else tried to claim the authorship of John Halifax.
It went through more than a dozen editions, generally illustrated, in Britain, the US, and the continent, and was translated into German. Lynn M. Alexander
's edition for Broadview Press
appeared in 2005.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Desmet, Christy. “’Intercepting the Dew-Drop’: Female Readers and Readings in Anna Jameson’s Shakespearean Criticism”. Women’s Re-Visions of Shakespeare, edited by Marianne Novy, University of Illinois Press, pp. 41-57.
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Literary Setting
Edith Wharton
In The Custom of the Country (1913, issued in a scholarly edition by Broadview
in 2008), Undine Spragg, beautiful social climber and insatiable consumer, already has two entanglements in her unmentionable past at Apex City...
The Critical Review was unimpressed by this novel: a strange medley of romance, history, and novel, in which the scenery is changed with the pantomimical rapidity of Voltaire
's Candide. . . . aukwardly...
Literary responses
Dinah Mulock Craik
Reviewers of the Broadview
edition commented that Craik's original is fascinating, and credited it with confound[ing] the usual binaries and prejudices of the period.
Broadview Press. http://www.broadviewpress.com/.
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A dramatic version of Lady Audley's Secret was staged by Ruth Herbert
at the St James's Theatre
, where MEB
had recollections of being overstimulated as a child.
Carnell, Jennifer. The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Study of Her Life and Work. Sensation Press.
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Another adaptation, Lady Audley's Secret: A...
Anthologization
Marion Moss
With the encouragement of MP Sir George Staunton
(to whom they dedicated the volume),
Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press.
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“Jewish Encyclopedia”. JewishEncyclopedia.com.
but unbeknownst to their parents, the sisters published it to support the family after their father
became ill and bedridden...
Anthologization
Marion Moss
MM
's Lines Written on the Death of Grace Aguilar are reprinted in the Broadview Press
edition of Aguilar's Selected Writings, 2003.