Frederick Rolfe

This memoir presents extended word-pictures of Henry Harland and Frederick Rolfe (who satirised her in his Nicholas Crabbe, which was as yet unpublished during her career, but circulating in manuscript). She writes touchingly about...

PHJ wrote introductions for the Norton edition of Trollope 's Barchester Towers, 1962, and for Cecil Woolf 's and Brocard Sewell 's volume of essays entitled Corvo , 1860-1960, 1961. She contributed in...

The tone of this novel and its sequels is savagely satirical. It partakes in the venerable tradition of burlesquing the affectations of the literary world, but for PHJ it was something entirely new. The eponymous...

Bertrand Russell exclaimed that it was one of the most exciting novels [he had] read in the English language. Many responses were inflected by gender. Frederick Rolfe (Baron Corvo) poetically asserted: It is doubtful...

EDA may have had affairs with several literary men: Henry Harland , her editor; John Lane , her publisher; and M. P. Shiel , who, like her, contributed to Lane's Keynotes series. The possibility that...