Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
under Henry Fawcett
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Georgiana Fullerton | GF
's mother, Lady Granville
, is said to have regretted that Ellen Middleton was quite so mournful. But contemporary reviewers were generally positive, and the novel proved popular. William Ewart Gladstone
, reviewing it... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | When they met in May 1865, she was almost eighteen and he thirty-two. He served as Postmaster-General in Gladstone
's government of 1880. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. under Henry Fawcett |
Literary responses | George Eliot | Cross
, concerned to protect and dignify her, chose the more sententious passages and excluded the spontaneous, trivial, and humorous remarks Eliot, George. “Preface”. The George Eliot Letters, edited by Gordon S. Haight, Yale University Press, p. 1: ix - lxxvii. xiv |
Literary responses | Daphne Du Maurier | Rebecca was DDM
's best known work, earning her massive profits, and it has become one of the most widely read novels of all time. Kelly, Richard. Daphne du Maurier. Twayne. 66 |
Literary responses | B. M. Croker | BMC
was charmed to see myself in print, but . . . awaited with terror the reviews. She hoped, in fact, that a certain great weekly journal (probably All the Year Round, formerly Household... |
Occupation | Marie Corelli | From 1886, when she published her first novel, A Romance of Two Worlds, onward, MC
produced books at great speed. She was an instant success, and throughout her life she sold approximately 100,000 books... |
Friends, Associates | Sara Coleridge | Among women writers, in addition to Dorothy Wordsworth
, Joanna Baillie
, and Maria Jane Jewsbury
, SC
also knew Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, Anna Jameson
, Elizabeth Rigby
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, and Harriet Martineau |
Reception | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
's importance to her contemporaries is most readily recalled today by the fact that Matthew Arnold
thought her a worthy target of his corrective wisdom in The Function of Criticism at the Present Time... |
Material Conditions of Writing | A. S. Byatt | She finished writing this book in St Deiniol's Library
near Hawarden Castle, repository of the collection of William Ewart Gladstone
, and included in her novel all the flower names in a Victorian book... |
Textual Features | Josephine Butler | Using St Catherine as an example, JB
sets out to illustrate the degree to which the efforts and endeavours of a single person can have significant impact on the society in which they live. After... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Her newly-made friends from 1887-9 included the writer Israel Zangwill
in London, Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone
and his wife
in Florence. Back in the USA she made another friend-as-collaborator, the dramatic-rights agent Elisabeth Marbury |
Publishing | Anna Brassey | By 1877, AB
's writing also appeared in major periodicals including Fraser's Magazine, Macmillan's Magazine, and the Contemporary Review. In the latter, she published her diary from an 1885 voyage to Norway... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | One Thing Needful is remarkable for its portrayal of a wheelchair-bound man as heroic: he is the only person able to rescue a child from a burning building, because of the exceptional strength of his... |
Literary responses | Mathilde Blind | MB
's rendering contributed to making the journal a sensation in England, and a major influence on a generation and more of English journal writers, including Katherine Mansfield
. It is, indirectly, the inspiration for... |
Textual Production | Mathilde Blind | This book has a frontispiece by Ford Madox Brown
. Brown had also produced two illustrations for MB
's fairy tale Blue Ogven. Ford, Ford Madox. Ford Madox Brown: A Record of His Life and Work. Longmans, Green. 354 Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research. 37, 36 |
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