Robert Lee Wolff

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton , published her final novel this year: the historical Clumber Chase; or, Love's Riddle Solved by a Royal Sphinx, under the pseudonym George Gordon Scott.

A dashing East India Company officer bilks the heir to a baronetcy of his fortune by kidnapping him and substituting the murderous son of a gamekeeper, who is in turn murdered by the family of...

From late 1861 MEB published in her future husband John Maxwell 's Temple Bar, edited by George Augustus Sala , a periodical which aimed to compete with the prestigious Cornhill Magazine. In...

A subplot excised in revision as Henry Dunbar was recycled into the short story Lost and Found: this removed the bigamy and blackmail from the novel. This time the novel in book form was...

The philanthropic aristocrat Charles Raymond in this story is based on MEB 's friend Charles Bray .Wolff sees Isabel (who during her youth lives as did MEB in Camberwell) as a kind...

As Robert Lee Wolff argues, The Lady's Mile represents an innovation in the portrayal of male character in Victorian fiction: MEB 's brave officer sells his commission and leaves the army in order to pursue...

But despite reminiscence of other MEB fiction—emphasis on a providential Hand guiding the action, reference to a private lunatic asylum as a living tomb— the novel is a considerable drop in quality from...

Critic Robert Lee Wolff sees MEB in her novels of the 1870s as satirizing the hypocrisy of middle-class Low-church values while seeming to espouse them, in part because she was trying to compete with...

Robert Lee Wolff argues that this is one of MEB 's very best Wilkie Collins -style investigations. As in much of MEB 's other fiction in this style, the reader can easily and...

Robert Lee Wolff considers this, with Joshua Haggard's Daughter, one of her two masterpieces.

The Athenæum praised MEB 's command of English and avoidance of sensationalism in this work. Her biographer Robert Lee Wolff judged it to be the best of all her sensation novels.

By Robert Lee Wolff 's estimate this novel (based on E.T.A. Hoffmann 's story of the doppelgänger) was her forty-eighth novel. He judges it, like her other late three-volume works, a feeble effort.

The slight psychological interest of this story is overshadowed, however, by a fascination with Helen's rescuer, aesthete and poet Daniel Lester, who in his larger-than-life physical presence and flamboyant personality is patently Wilde . Lester...

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.

MEB completed the penny parts of her first novel, Three Times Dead; or, The Secret of the Heath, in the ground-breaking genre of the detective novel. Begun in February of this year, it was...