Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland.
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Publishing | Charlotte Riddell | A New York edition from Harper, compressing three volumes to one, appeared the following year. A Garland
facsimile appeared in 1979 in a series on Ireland and Irish politics, with an introduction by Robert Lee Wolff |
Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Robert Lee Wolff
considers this, with Joshua Haggard's Daughter, one of her two masterpieces. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 8 |
Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The Athenæum praised MEB
's command of English and avoidance of sensationalism in this work. Athenæum. J. Lection. 3164 (1888): 759 Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books. 69: 36 |
Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Critic Robert Lee Wolff
places this among MEB
's best works for its psychological delicacy and stylistic economy and its bold treatment of physical love. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 392, 395 |
Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Margaret Oliphant
's critique of the sensation novel in 1867 relied heavily on attacking MEB
's reputation. The best she would say was that some of Braddon's works deserved some of their success. Braddon's sole... |
Literary responses | May Laffan | This book sold well, and remains ML
's most successful novel. Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT. 72 |
Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
's meticulous character study and tragic love story is sometimes considered her best novel. It was positively received by George Meredith
, Sir J. M. Barrie
, and Henry James. James
wrote to her... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | While appearing on stage MEB
must have found it a challenge to protect herself from unwanted sexual attentions. She attracted the attention, apparently without meeting disapproval from her mother, of newspaper proprietor Charles Bray
(who... |
Education | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Later in life, she did Latin translation with her children and taught herself some Greek, in hopes, according to biographer and critic Robert Lee Wolff
, of remedying the deficiency in her education that caused... |
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