Gerson, Carole, and Agnes Maule Machar. “Introduction”. Roland Graeme, Knight, Tecumseh Press, 1996, p. vii - xxiv.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| death | Amy Levy | The following year the novelist Grant Allen
, an opponent of higher education for women, attributed her suicide directly to her time at university. Beckman considers many possible reasons—a broken love-affair, her lesbianism, her deafness... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Agnes Maule Machar | Grant Allen
, a prolific writer of naturalist fiction and non-fiction who was actively publishing at the same time as AMM
, was her brother-in-law. |
| Friends, Associates | Flora Thompson | Grayshott offered more extensive opportunities. As well as offering the usual library and penny readings, it was a centre for literary celebrities. During her work in the post-office FT
observed and caught snatches of the... |
| Friends, Associates | Katherine Cecil Thurston | Through the New Vagabonds Club
, KCT
may have met several other prominent authors of the day, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
, Grant Allen
, Pearl Craigie
(who went by the pseudonym John Oliver... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | George Egerton | Pleased with the book's success, Lane
introduced a fiction series named after it: Keynotes. Stetz, Margaret. “Keynotes: A New Woman, Her Publisher, and Her Material”. Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 30 , No. 1, pp. 89-107. 91 |
| Literary responses | Kathleen Caffyn | Her contemporary Hugh Stutfield
grouped KC
together with Sarah Grand
and Grant Allen
as members of the purity school. Gail Cunningham notes that these authors were seen to valorize a feminine ideal and sphere... |
| Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | Reviews were positive. Novelist Margaret Woods
felt that the archaic world it depicted was the root of Marcella's charm. Watters, Tamie, and Mary Augusta Ward. “Introduction”. Marcella, Virago, 1984, p. vii - xvi. xvi |
| Literary responses | Victoria Cross | The Athenæum's review began by asserting that if The Woman Who Didn't was intended to provide a rejoinder to Grant Allen
's novel, then it had failed to do so. Moreover, it failed more... |
| politics | Hannah Lynch | Barine lived as a New Woman in her independence and her intellectual productivity, but her style was self-consciously feminine, and she deplored the left-wing feminism of writers like Olive Schreiner
and George Egerton
, whom... |
| Publishing | B. M. Croker | In 1894 stories by BMC
appeared in the Christmas numbers of London Society (along with others by John Strange Winter
and Alice Perrin
) and the Graphic (along with others by Grant Allen
and Robert Buchanan |
| Publishing | Mary Angela Dickens | MAD
published her story The Catch of the Season in The Strand Magazine. The issue also features writing by Arthur Conan Doyle
and Grant Allen
. Dickens, Mary Angela. “The Catch of the Season”. The Strand Magazine, Vol. xiv , No. 79, pp. 66-72. 66-73 |
| Reception | Ménie Muriel Dowie | MMD
's second publication after the wildly popular A Girl in the Karpathians was reasonably successful for a first novel, but its reception by the general reading public was perhaps not as enthusiastic as [the... |
| Textual Features | Sophie Veitch | In Ethics and Art in Recent Novels, SV
again fits notice of nine novels into a review which also expounds her view of literary morality, along the same lines as her fiction. She begins... |
| Textual Production | Evelyn Sharp | Lane accepted the novel in November 1894 for his series called after George Egerton
's Keynotes. John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press, 2009. 13 |
| Textual Production | Victoria Cross | VC
's pseudonym was apparently a complicated private joke, implying both that Cross believed she deserved recognition for her valour in defying conventional mores (the Victoria Cross being the highest British military award for heroism)... |
Timeline
October 1889
Grant Allen
's eugenicist essay Plain Words on the Woman Question in the Fortnightly Review argued that every woman, especially of the middle or upper class, had a duty to produce a minimum of four children.
February 1895
Grant Allen
published his best-selling novel entitled The Woman Who Did; it was Keynotes Series no. 8.
1896
Grant Allen
published A Splendid Sin, which was influenced by the psychological ideas of Henry Maudsley
.
June 1897
The first issue of The Adult, a periodical from the Legitimation League
, appeared: it campaigned for the rights of the illegitimate and for sex education.
31 May 1898
George Bedborough
, secretary of the Legitimation League
which sought to change the law to improve the position of illegitimate children, was arrested, largely in an attempt to damage the League through him.
Texts
Allen, Grant. “Plain Words on the Woman Question”. Fortnightly Review, Vol.
52
, pp. 448-58.