Honoré de Balzac

Here she complains that the modern novel has been taken over by [t]he property-man, by an obsession with the vivid presentation of material objects. Even Balzac , she says, is memorable for his...

FT 's political conservatism affected her judgements of literature as well as politics. She forcefully expresses her dislike for republicanism, denounces freedom of the press as the most awful engine that Providence has permitted the...

MEB continued after this to maintain a rate of about one new novel a year. In Gerard, which appeared in 1891, she combined elements from Goethe 's Faust with others from Balzac 's La...

CB 's comments on Jane Austen , whom she first read at this time, reflect her own literary priorities: She does her business of delineating the surface of the lives of genteel English people curiously...

In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich through Jane Austen , Emily and Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot

ASB continued her interest in Ovid with Arachne, a literary essay, in Ovid Metamorphosed, edited by Philip Terry in early 2000. In 2001 she edited On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays...

SJ published Europe to Let: The Memoirs of an Obscure Man, a collection of four novellas on the rise of Nazism; her political novel Cousin Honoré appeared the same year.

During the final decade of the century MBE remained as productive as ever. She published two novels in 1891 (A North-Country Comedy and A Romance of the Wine), besides a volume of stories,...

During the same year she worked on translating Balzac for young English readers, a scheme suggested to her by her discussions with Elizabeth Barrett Browning about French fiction.

In addition to her chosen themes, DR also charts the development of female consciousness through her literary techniques, which strongly disrupt gender, generic, and linguistic conventions. In her 1938 foreword to Pilgrimage, she recalls...

The novel, entitled Green Dusk for Dreams, drew on her own experience as an au pair girl in Bordeaux. At different times she called it Dickens ian and Balzac ian. The protagonist...

Inspired by Balzac , Jameson planned several novels that would form a contemporary family and political saga. It would be centred mainly on (Mary) Hervey Russell, who, she once wrote, is and is not myself...

This drew on a female type established in the bohemian fiction of Honoré de Balzac , Eugène Sue , and others. Daudet's novel was the source of a play by Clyde Fitch which opened on...

The meeting of Aurore Dudevant (later GS ) with Sandeau coincided with the end of the Three Glorious Days when Charles X abdicated, leaving the throne for his nephew Louis Philippe of Orléans . In...

The Athenæum criticized this novel for mock eloquence and thought anyone choosing to read it was making a very bad use of their freedom. In...