Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 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, Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 241 |
Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Robert Lee Wolff
argues that this is one of MEB
's very best Wilkie Collins
-style investigations. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 243 |
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 |
Publishing | Annie Keary | 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... |
Publishing | May Laffan | 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... |
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 |
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 |
Textual Production | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | 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. OCLC, the... |
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... |
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