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Textual Production | Anne Marsh | |
Textual Production | Julia Frankau | |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Gilding | Her title was To the Gentleman, who under the signature Etonensis, addressed some fine poetic lines, containing a very genteel compliment to Mrs. T—r, of Woolwich. Cumbre had identified himself through this pseudonym, Etoniensis... |
Textual Production | Henry Green | HG
published the first of his nine novels, Blindness, about a student who loses his sight; it was based on a story he had written while still at Eton
. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 290 Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. 237 |
Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Most of ATR
's unpublished manuscripts and letters are held by the University of London
and Eton College
libraries. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press. 333 |
Textual Production | Susan Hill | SH
has successfully self-published, and makes extensive use of new media. She is active as both a blogger and a tweeter. In 2013 both Printer's Devil Court, her latest ghost story, and Crystal... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth De la Pasture | EDP
explained to her American readers that the eponymous heroine of Peter's Mother, Lady Mary Crewys, was typical of an Englishwoman of a certain class in being isolated and guarded from all practical knowledge... |
Textual Features | Annie Keary | The story takes place against the background of the Great Famine (which is just about to begin when the novel opens, in 1845) and the Young Ireland
Rebellion of July 1848. The young Dalys, offspring... |
Textual Features | E. M. Delafield | She obliged in her best comic vein. She enumerated the views of Englishmen on England (the views of women are not mentioned) in what today would be bullet points, as a kind of lovable reactionary's... |
Textual Features | Florence Dixie | FD
sets out her own position in her preface: The Author's best and truest friends, with few exceptions, have been and are men. But the Author will never recognise man's glory and welfare in woman's... |
Textual Features | Maria Edgeworth | In this later edition ME
discarded three stories which she moved to Early Lessons, and added Tarlton, Lazy Lawrence, The False Key, The Birthday Present, Old Poz, The Mimic... |
Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | As Robert Lee Wolff
argues, The Lady's Mile represents an innovation in the portrayal of male character in Victorian fiction: MEB
's brave officer sells his commission and leaves the army in order to pursue... |
Textual Features | Julia O'Faolain | She set her radio play in a private girls' boarding school in St Albans (based on one where she had taught), staffed by geriatric lesbians who, the headmistress insisted, were all varsity women. The school... |
Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | Whatever the truth of that, she wrote in full consciousness of outsider status, both delight[ing] in the patriarchal anonymity of the TLS and simultaneously tilt[ing] at it. Wood, James. “Phut-Phut”. London Review of Books, pp. 11-12. 11 |
Textual Features | Kathleen Caffyn | This three-volume narrative opens on the childhood of Gwen and Dacre Waring, a sister and brother who grow up in a wealthy, intellectual and agnostic family. Their parents' unorthodox values do not, however, extend to... |
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