Honoré de Balzac

Like her earlier novels, this one seems to be partly based on her relationship with Renée Vivien , who committed suicide twenty years before it was published. The story is told from the point of...

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,...

Charlotte's Inheritance treats the Stock Exchange and a poisoner based on art critic and murderer Thomas Griffiths Wainewright . Both these books, according to Wolff, reveal the influence of Collins and Balzac , about whose...

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...

The antecedents of Braddon's work were both print and stage melodrama, and as her career progressed her work increasingly reflected the influence of French realists and naturalists: Flaubert , Balzac , and Zola .

John Cordy Jeaffreson 's Athenæum review found Dead-Sea Fruitless revolting and unwholesome than some of MEB 's previous work, although hardly up to a standard of Christian morality. He noted the...

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...

This book, abounding in satirical vignettes, is the first of AB 's anti-romances. Its protagonist is a university lecturer who, looking back at forty on her experience since childhood, knew that her life had been...

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...

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...

CC 's education took place at home. At about fourteen she was studying music, drawing, French, possibly German, Latin, Greek, history, geography, and mathematics. She became fluent in French and later took great pleasure in...

Letters between CC and her husband reveal an affectionate and caring relationship. In a letter to her dated May 1840 he writes: You are rather a shabby correspondent. I have, however, got you Balzac and...

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...

Following her withdrawal from Bryn Mawr, HD (with Pound 's assistance) embarked on an intensive independent study programme that lasted for five years. During this period she read and studied writers such as William Morris

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.