Sally Mitchell

These writings, argues critic Sally Mitchell , were essentially in the sentimental mode, which sought to educate by promoting habits of good feeling rather than by presenting either rational arguments or deserved punishments. In...

Many of the traits which DMC promoted both in her girls' and her boys' fiction merge into a single-sex ideal, argues Mitchell , who sees all of this work as guiding young readers towards an...

Her early novels, according to Sally Mitchell , provide a sampling of the kinds of books that were, at the time, most popular with readers, which attests to her familiarity with the literary landscape of...

Illness and disability in both women and men figure frequently in DMC 's fiction to mark a social and psychological distance between characters. Sally Mitchell sees such representations as gender coding: Physical incapacity codifies the...

Sally Mitchell compares The Head of the Family to the large-cast family story written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton , or by Fredrika Bremer as recently translated by Mary Howitt .

DMC 's story is an allegory to the extent that it spans the period 1795-1834, from the year after the Reign of Terror ended, at a high point in enclosure of common land, to just...

The book was immediately successful in England and the United States.Sally Mitchell remarks that it produced a huge expansion in the audience for fiction: The book helped to overcome the resistance to fiction...

This original fairy tale features the Prince Dolor, who is crippled as an infant, deprived of his rule by a Prince Regent uncle, and brought up in miserable conditions. A fairy godmother gives him a...

Sally Mitchell characterizes it as embarrassing to read owing to its sentimentality, but argues that the idealized portrait of a crippled man whose noble life it delineates makes physical disability a powerful figure for...

The female narrator opens her story with an avowal of love for Josephine Scanlan that posits same-sex love as natural for women, and heterosexual love as rarely deserved by men: I have loved a man...

Sally Mitchell judges this novel to be largely conventional and undistinguished, remarkable only for the representations of drunkenness and wife abuse, and because, near the end, the model wife says that it is necessary under...

In the years leading up to her marriage, Camilla Toulmin and Dinah Mulock Craik were good friends (Craik was one of her bridesmaids); however, Craik's biographer Sally Mitchell mentions Crosland only briefly. Newton Crosland posits...

Her other work for periodicals includes a short story, A Railroad Adventure, published in 1843 in Ainsworth's Magazine, as well as pieces in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Bentley's Miscellany, the Illustrated London...

She started writing this novel in 1895 and finished it by September 1897.Elaine Showalter wrote the introduction to Virago 's 1980 edition, and Sally Mitchell wrote that of Thoemmes , 1994.

Feminists, social reformers, and literary men, such as Mark Twain , George Meredith , and George Bernard Shaw , greeted this novel with excitement and appreciation. SG wrote a caustic letter to the Daily...