Robert Lee Wolff

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...

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 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

This book sold well, and remains ML 's most successful novel. Some initial reviews were favourable, but most afforded Hogan, M.P. at best lukewarm praise. The Protestant, Unionist Dublin University Magazine declared that though...

A new edition of Hogan, M.P. appeared from Macmillan in 1881 (reissued in 1883), and a New York edition from G. Munro in 1882. The novel was thereafter out of print until Garland Publishing reprinted...

She had worked on this novel both at Pégomas near Cannes in the South of France and at her home in Kensington. For some reason she found none of her usual pleasure in composition...

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.