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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Augusta Ward | The contemporary story features a self-educated working-class intellectual and freethinker whose characterisation draws on many strands of thought of the day. Drawn after the model of self-made men such as Daniel Macmillan
, William Lovett |
Intertextuality and Influence | Alice Walker | The opening words of the title are quoted from June Jordan
. The opening words of the text, more surprisingly, come from Dickens
: It is the worst of times. It is the best of... |
Literary responses | Lucy Walford | The journal likened the development of character in Walford's Mr Druitt to that of Dickens
's John Jarndyce, in Bleak House. It also thought the ending to be one of LW
's best: she... |
Reception | Lucy Walford | |
Literary responses | Ethel Lilian Voynich | Overall, however, The Gadfly was a success to a degree that not one of ELV
's subsequent novels could achieve. Garlick, Barbara. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Editor Mitchell, Sally, Garland Publishing, Inc., p. 837. 837 |
politics | Queen Victoria | Charles Dickens
, while recognizing the value that appeal to the crown could have for an author's socio-economic position and prestige, also felt that his power to create representations which would reflect and shape the... |
Textual Production | Queen Victoria | Initially, Victoria was unreceptive to the idea of widespread publication of her journal extracts, arguing (according to Helps in his Editor's Preface) that she had no skill whatever in authorship; that these were, for the... |
Literary responses | Queen Victoria | Despite her book's popularity, when Victoria entered the arena of public writing, some Victorians criticized her prose style. After receiving copies of Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, sent by... |
Education | Alison Uttley | Alice Jane Taylor (later AU
) was a strong-willed child who set her own agenda. She later remembered a trial of wills, at the age of two, with her godmother, which ended not in her... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Maria Tucker | This, one of her most lively and engaging children's books, features a main character named Ratto, who wanders through the world from London to Russia, eventually joining up with a rat-hero named Whiskerandos. This... |
Literary responses | Charlotte Maria Tucker | Critic J. S. Bratton
calls this book the kind of perversion of well-loved stories which Dickens
and others found so reprehensible. She nevertheless maintains that Tucker tells the tales with some zest. Bratton, Jacqueline S. The Impact of Victorian Children’s Fiction. Croom Helm. 75 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Trollope | Though FT
continues to be viewed as a caustic, prejudiced critic of unfamiliar social manners, as well as a snobbish middle-class Englishwoman eager to attack those she perceived to be beneath her, her travel journals... |
Reception | Frances Trollope | FT
's was not the first anti-child labour novel, and apart from being attacked as a red-hot revolutionary by Sydney Morgan she was also accused of imitating Oliver Twist. Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press. 172 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Trollope | The subplot of Blue Belles features a current literary sensation, whose overnight success secures him in the course of a single month 376 invitations to dinner, 120 requests for personal inscriptions, 70 for autographs, and... |
Occupation | Frances Eleanor Trollope | Frances Eleanor Ternan (later FET
), her sisters Maria
and Ellen
, and her mother Frances
, performed with Dickens
in Wilkie Collins
's The Frozen Deep, which opened at the New Free Trade Hall in Manchester. Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens. HarperCollins. 786-8, 790 |
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