Harris, Mary J. Y. Memoirs of Frances Mary Peard. W. H. Smith, 1930.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Annie Keary | From about 1851 AK
went to live with one of her brothers, to look after his three children, two boys and a girl, after the death of his wife (presumably in childbirth, since the youngest... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Flora Shaw | Critic Gillian Avery
suggests that Castle Blair (in which English children side with the tenants of their uncle's Irish estate against his oppressive bailiff, who is then nearly killed) was significantly influenced by Annie Keary |
Intertextuality and Influence | Annie Keary | Gillian Avery
suggests that Flora Shaw
's Castle Blair, 1878, whose plot of English children on a family Irish estate taking the part of the tenants in dangerous disputes must derive from AK
... |
Literary responses | Margaret Roberts | Gillian Avery
admires this book (which she finds both moving and exciting) for its even-handed rendering of the issues of the Revolution. MR
, she says, never for a moment claims, as did most of... |
Literary responses | Margaret Roberts | Mary J. Y. Harris
in 1930 pronounced MR
the most brilliant of the group of women writers who lived at Torquy in Devon during the 1860s and later. Harris, Mary J. Y. Memoirs of Frances Mary Peard. W. H. Smith, 1930. 16 |
Literary responses | Annie Keary | Twentieth-century children's writer Gillian Avery
found AK
's name in Charlotte Yonge
's little book What Books to Lend and What to Give, 1887, which mentions four of her works as suitable for prizes... |
Publishing | Margaret Roberts | |
Publishing | Jane Johnson | The manuscript also contains fair copies of ten poems and a prayer. C., M. “Notable Accessions. Western MSS”. Bodleian Library Record, No. 2, pp. 165 - 8. 166 |
Publishing | Annie Keary | It was delayed in the printing: AK
had been disappointed in her hopes of sending a copy to a girl, now in a reformatory, whom she had known as a servant. Keary, Annie. Letters of Annie Keary. Keary, ElizaEditor , Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1883. 27 |
Publishing | Margaret Roberts | This was re-issued (as by the author of Atelier du Lys) by the Church of England
publishing house, the National Society's Depository
, in 1890. Gollancz
put out a new edition in 1967 with... |
Textual Features | Margaret Roberts | This story is set around the village of Leyrac in Bordeaux, France. The French Revolution casts its shadow almost from the first page. Gillian Avery
thinks that the chateau where Stéphanie lives for some... |
Textual Production | Penelope Lively | PL
's Victorian children's story Fanny's Sister was contextualized by British Book News as resembling Mary Martha Sherwoodwithout the moralizing and approaching the larger-scale tales of Gillian Avery
. British Book News. British Council. (1977): 762 |
Textual Production | Margaret Roberts | MR
issued, anonymously, at both London and New York, the earliest book identified as hers: Summerleigh Manor; or, Brothers and Sisters, designed, as her preface mentions, for young readers. The identification is Gillian Avery
's. Avery, Gillian, and Margaret Roberts. “Introduction”. Banning and Blessing, Gollancz, 1967, pp. 7 - 8. 7 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. |
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