Sichel, Edith. “Emily Lawless”. Nineteenth Century, Vol.
76
, pp. 80-100. 86
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Fanny Aikin Kortright | FAK
reported this little book as very well received—among anti-suffragists, naturally. She said she had many letters of appreciation. Gladstone
, to whom she had sent a copy, wrote to ask for more. He passed... |
politics | May Laffan | ML
had strong political views, and she frequently addressed political subjects in her novels. She was critical of English governance, and presented the misery and poverty of Irish peasants as worse than that of their... |
Friends, Associates | Emily Lawless | |
Literary responses | Emily Lawless | Hurrish was EL
's most commercially successful work of fiction. Sichel noted that it made an instantaneous effect Sichel, Edith. “Emily Lawless”. Nineteenth Century, Vol. 76 , pp. 80-100. 85 |
Literary responses | Emily Lawless | William Ewart Gladstone
originally took With Essex in Ireland to be an authentic account. Edith Sichel
suggests that it required Homeric naïveté and immense power of belief to take it for a contemporary document, but... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Linskill | On this same holiday, passing through London, ML
was invited to dinner by Gladstone
, who was an admirer of her work. Quinlan, David, and Arthur Frederick Humble. Mary Linskill: The Whitby Novelist. Horne and Son. 40 |
Residence | Edna Lyall | EL
moved from Lincoln to Eastbourne in 1884 Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co. 53 |
Literary responses | Edna Lyall | The Morning Post gave the book a good review, Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co. 45 Corrick, Georgia. “’You will Blame Me . But . It Seemed to me Simply a Thing that Had to be Done’: Women’s Transgressions and Moral Choices in Edna Lyall’s Novels”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 14 , No. 3, pp. 476-95. 477 and n1 |
Literary responses | Edna Lyall | EL
reported that Unionists
in Tipperary were angered by the sympathetic portrayal of characters whom they regarded as seditious or traitorous, Corrick, Georgia. “’You will Blame Me . But . It Seemed to me Simply a Thing that Had to be Done’: Women’s Transgressions and Moral Choices in Edna Lyall’s Novels”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 14 , No. 3, pp. 476-95. 479 |
Cultural formation | Edith Lyttelton | Little is known about EL
's life before she met her famous husband. An unpublished memoir held by the Churchill Archives Centre
at Churchill College
, Cambridge, may provide more information. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Lyttelton | The mother of Alfred Lyttelton (youngest of twelve children of the fourth Baron Lyttelton) had died six months after he was born. He was a successful lawyer and became a top athlete in English sport... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Lyttelton | Alfred Lyttelton
delayed entering politics until his uncle the Prime Minister William Gladstone
resigned, because he could not agree with him on the subject of Irish Home Rule. Before the general election of 25 June... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Edith Lyttelton | EL
provides lucid accounts of her husband's early life; his political break with his uncle, Prime Minister William Gladstone
, over the issue of Irish Home Rule; their visit to South Africa immediately following the... |
Publishing | Jessie White Mario | In early 1881 JWM
published two articles in the Newcastle Chronicle. The first, Sicily and Ireland, appeared anonymously on 25 January. The second, A Mazzinian View of Mr. Gladstone, appeared on 16 February. Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press. 155 |
Textual Production | Catherine Marsh | The book includes frequent letters to and from Marsh's sisters as well as her close friend Caroline Maitland
. She also kept a regular correspondence with Florence Nightingale
, Hedley Vicars
, the Archbishop of Canterbury |
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