Susan Ferrier

Susan Ferrier 's sister Helen Kinloch saw Trials: A Tale as a sad comedown after The Favourite of Nature: she joked that it was a trial to read.

The title-page bore a creative misquotation from William Wordsworth : She lived within her father's halls . . . And very few to love—which converts the rustic Lucy into an upper-class heroine like AM

Oliphant's views on the status of women shifted somewhat with time. She dismissed the women's suffrage petition, and represented women who supported suffrage as unnatural. Answering Barbara Bodichon , she argued that marriage was...

Moira Burgess , writing on Scottish women's fiction, found Beatrice's tone and sentiment a startling departure from Sinclair's earlier work, but concluded that in those disturbing mid-century years of industrial revolution and sudden Irish...

Timothy C. Baker has noted that recent scholarship follows CS 's contemporaries in overlooking her adult novels. For the monument-makers, Sinclair's fame rests on a combination of civic and literary achievement; curiously, however, her widely...

They had houses, or mansions, in Tyrone, in Scotland, and at Stanmore Priory near London; they treated the celebrated writer as a kind of household pet, even making fun of her nationalist...