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The wife, Jessie Enderby, is much younger than the middle-aged colonel. She is presented (by a male narrator who sees himself as a social historian and social critic) not as the passive victim of a...

SS 's modesty was well founded. The novel that follows is a more conventional romance than any of Richardson 's, though it makes much reference to Sir Charles Grandison, and also cites Pamela (though...

In the Times Literary SupplementPeter Redgrove welcomed EJ as a good rather than a great poet, lyrical, metaphysical, and psychologically penetrating, a very accomplished writer of short pieces. Other...

At the start of her writing career, in 1885, KT was revered as the next Catholic woman poet to succeed Christina Rossetti . She herself held firmly to this image even while her Parnellism and...

Helen Heineman describes this book as a pastiche of seances, mesmerism, Roman Catholic conversions, wicked guardians, and social class snobbery that displays a distinct decline in FT 's writing abilities.

KT took up journalism to make money. She wrote sketches, short stories, and articles for British and US journals, many of them Catholic , including the Boston Pilot, the Providence Sunday Journal, the...

EMC was a frequent, lifelong contributor to both English and Italian periodicals. She wrote for the journal of the Manchester Geographical Society , National Review, Contemporary Review, Gentleman's Magazine, and (less frequently...

Having decided to leave Simon and Schuster , CS submitted this work in manuscript to Angus Cameron of Little Brown , but she may have done this too early, since he replied that it needed...

GF serialized in the newly founded Catholic journal The Month her faux-autobiographical novel Constance Sherwood, about persecution of Roman Catholics during the English Reformation.

CMB published her first collection of short stories, titled Tales from the Diary of a Sister of Mercy. The material in this volume had originally appeared in the Catholic magazine called The Lamp.

At the age of twenty-five ML published in Fraser's Magazine the anonymous article Convent Boarding-Schools for Young Ladies, an attack on the Catholic system of women's education.

EW was a twentieth-century novelist whose startling black humour goes together with devastating satire and a low estimate of unredeemed human nature (whether he is fictionalizing the failings of other people or of himself). He...

Writing for a brief period at the turn of the twentieth century, the pseudonymous JOH (whose actual married name was Pearl Craigie ) was the author of over a dozen novellas, novels, and several plays...

Publishing all through the 1840s and the 1880s, GF worked in a variety of genres, including poetry, biography, drama, and most notably the novel. While many of her eleven novels adopt tropes from sensation fiction...

AM was a late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century poet, as well as the author of criticism, journalism, essays, art reviews, introductions, and translations. Her output amounted to ten essay collections and six poetry volumes during...