Robert Lee Wolff

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...

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...

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...

Harvard 's Houghton Library has a number of significant manuscripts by MEB including notebooks as well as novels. The extensive collection of her printed titles and manuscripts owned by Robert Lee Wolff of Harvard University

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.