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Textual Features | Agnes Maule Machar | In this novel and in one which followed the next year, Lost and Won, AMM
voiced disapproval of novel-reading and its potentially corrupting influence. She preferred an improving tone for fiction and criticized a... |
Textual Features | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | |
Textual Features | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | The poem burlesqued social conservatism in the accents of a reform Darwin
ist through the resolution of a prehistoric Eohippus to become a horse (evolution converting his middle finger-nail into a hoof), and of an... |
Textual Features | Jane Hume Clapperton | Her almost innumerable sources include Charles Darwin
, Herbert Spencer
, Thomas Malthus
, Thomas Huxley
, Francis Galton
, Edward Carpenter
, John A. Hobson
, and Sidney Webb
. She was also inspired... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | It follows protagonist John Robertson after he awakens from a thirty-year bout of amnesia in 1940. John quickly learns that much has changed in America (particularly the New York City area) since 1910. The... |
Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | Several critics have observed the influence of Joseph Conrad
in The Voyage Out: in Heart of Darkness (published in 1899) the voyage into the unknown represents a dark and unspeakable self-discovery. The structure of... |
Textual Features | Sarah Grand | The Heavenly Twins, SG
's most famous novel, treats a variety of social and gender issues, including female sexuality, unhappy marriages, women's social roles, the sexual double standard, and venereal disease. Ideala, heroine of... |
Textual Features | Mary Somerville | Replete with nearly two hundred illustrations, On Molecular and Microscopic Science is divided into three sections: Atoms and Molecules of Matter, Vegetable Organisms, and Animal Organisms. The text considers the molecular makeup of matter and... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Jenkins | She describes how Tennyson, suffering from depression or nervous complaints, turned to Dr James Manby Gully and his celebrated Malvern water cure. She ranks Gully's medical abilities and his record of healing very highly. She... |
Textual Features | Antoinette Brown Blackwell | ABB
opposes Clarke's argument, and also criticizes Charles Darwin
's and Herbert Spencer
's understanding of the roles of the sexes. She uses the scientific method here, writing in the style of her male contemporaries... |
Textual Features | May Kendall | Kendall and Lang use the genre of social satire to introduce significant debates between science and the supernatural, of a kind which recur throughout her poetry. These debates are often staged between men and creatures... |
Textual Features | George Eliot | While there can be no doubt that Dorothea is the heroine of Middlemarch, it is one of the book's major strengths to subsume even the most intensely particular individual life into collective life. The... |
Reception | Jane Austen | JA
's early admirers among her fellow women writers constituted a small, select band. They included Sarah Harriet Burney
, Anne Grant
, Mary Ann Kelty
, Maria Callcott
, Maria Jane Jewsbury
, Harriet Martineau |
Publishing | Charlotte Brontë | She started with Henry Colburn
. After Anne and Emily had arranged with Newby for publication of their first novels, she approached a seventh publisher, Smith, Elder, and Co.
. The firm was the publisher... |
Publishing | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
wrote on a remarkable range of topics which provoked lively responses. Her piece on canine consciousness in the Quarterly Review in 1872 drew an expression of admiration from Darwin
, and she published anecdotes... |
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