Eton College

NC published a poem for the first time, in the Eton College Chronicle.

The book was attacked on its appearance as anti-Christian, in an open letter to the press, signed by most of the Establishment including both English archbishops and the headmasters of Eton and Harrow . NM

Within a few years Jessie White Mario was frequently quoting Casa Guidi Windows in her campaign for the Italian cause, and after her death the City of Florence marked EBB 's contribution to unification with...

EG 's close friend Lady Warwick , when shown the finished manuscript of this book, warned EG not to publish it, or she would tarnish or ruin her reputation. Indeed, the novel did...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. She used the conventional one for I...

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...

Many chapters are headed with quotations from Shakespeare or Cowper . This novel pits domestic (upper-class) ties against destructive passions, the latter aroused by the fascinating Marchioness of Laisville (whose vices do not ruin her...

In her journals she occasionally refers to herself in the masculine as Anodos (her pseudonym, which sounds like a Greek, masculine personal name). In one such entry she writes: If Anodos had a boy (which...

In her introduction EH , anonymously, says she is opposed to romances, novels, and whatever carries the air of them. She will not, she says, exaggerate good or bad qualities, but give the unvarnished...

HS 's two villains are in truth fairly familiar, as are her two heroes, Henry Fitzherbert and Edgar Aubrey, and her two heroines, Camilla St Clair and Emily Harland. Fitzherbert takes most of the narrative...

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...