Matthew Arnold

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Standard Name: Arnold, Matthew

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Literary responses Percy Bysshe Shelley
For generations PBS appeared the quintessential image of the Romantic poet, whose work influenced such poets as Mathilde Blind , Amy Levy , Alice Meynell , Sarojini Naidu —though for some of them he was...
Literary responses Edith J. Simcox
This work received an ambivalent response from The Spectator reviewer, who called it in effect an attempt, ingenious and not unskillful, but very much the reverse of convincing, to prove that the world would go...
Literary responses Elizabeth Gaskell
EG called this work simply a little country love story,
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber.
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although it climaxes with a fire and a shipwreck. Charlotte Brontë liked it, and Mary Forster recorded her brother Matthew Arnold 's enjoyment of...
Literary responses Caroline Clive
The Edinburgh Review praised her for displaying a co-existence of the synthetic and analytic modes of looking at things, the general want of which is the great defect of most modern poetry.
Partridge, Eric Honeywood. “Mrs. Archer Clive”. Literary Sessions, Scholartis Press.
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The reviewer...
Literary responses Frances Power Cobbe
FPC 's importance to her contemporaries is most readily recalled today by the fact that Matthew Arnold thought her a worthy target of his corrective wisdom in The Function of Criticism at the Present Time...
Literary responses Mary Augusta Ward
The novel was a massive success, in the words of Henry Jamesa momentous public event.
Ward, Mary Augusta. “Introduction”. Robert Elsmere, edited by Rosemary Ashton, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xviii.
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Critic John Sutherland deems it the best-selling work of quality fiction in the nineteenth century. By the summer...
Literary responses Emily Davies
Frances Power Cobbe thought this book capital and reported herself delighted by the sense, and the fun! Your quick bits of sarcasm are impayable [sic].
Caine, Barbara. Victorian Feminists. Oxford University Press.
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Matthew Arnold pronounced it very pleasantly written, as well...
Occupation Walter Pater
While at Brasenose , he wrote three anonymous essays for the Westminster Review: Coleridge 's Writings, Winckelmann, and The Poetry of William Morris. All three were attacked, says scholar Laurel Brake
Occupation Mary Frances Billington
MFB was earning enough from her career in journalism to be able to support herself by her late teens. She established herself as a successful writer and editor for national dailies and a career journalist...
Reception Dinah Mulock Craik
Following her death, a committee which included Tennyson , Arnold , Robert Browning , Margaret Oliphant , T. H. Huxley , and James Russell Lowell was formed to devise a memorial to DMC in Tewkesbury...
Residence Rhoda Broughton
The move, undertaken so that RB might be closer to her publisher, and on the assurance of Matthew Arnold that they would receive a warm welcome,
Wood, Marilyn. Rhoda Broughton: Profile of a Novelist. Paul Watkins.
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was to provide them with a home for...
Residence Mary Anne Barker
MAB and her husband, Frederick Broome , called their cottage at the sheep station, from their own name, Broomielaw. It stood in the Malvern Hills on the banks of the Selwyn River, attached...
Textual Features Mary Augusta Ward
Perhaps the most interesting is her review (March 1884) of Harry Buxton Forman 's recent edition of Keats . Ward argues that the letters to Fanny Brawne ought not to have been made public. (She...
Textual Production Elizabeth Gaskell
EG 's last novel, Wives and Daughters, appeared serially and anonymously in Cornhill Magazine; it was truncated near its conclusion by her death.
Her anonymity was by choice, not convention. Her unsigned novel...
Textual Production Mary Butts
It includes In Bloomsbury, The House Party, Widdershins, Brightness Falls (titled from the famous lyric by Thomas Nashe ), and Friendship's Garland (whose title is better known as that of a volume...

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