John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press.
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Textual Production | Victoria Cross | Little of the critical speculation about the genealogy of The Woman Who Didn't has been confirmed. Charlotte Mitchell
posits that the risqué subject matter of the novel VC
produced after signing a contract with Lane |
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. 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)... |
Textual Production | Victoria Cross | Printed as one of the Lane's Keynotes Series—which had already included Allen
's The Woman Who Did—The Woman Who Didn't introduced VC
's writing to the public in connection with both New... |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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, p. vii - xvi. xvi |
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 |
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... |