Richard D. Altick

Standard Name: Altick, Richard D.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Mary Cowden Clarke
In 1848 MCC may have contributed two pieces to A Book of Stories for Young People, along with Mary Howitt and Anna Maria Hall . But Richard D. Altick believes the stories The Princess...
Textual Features Mary Cowden Clarke
Her biographer Richard D. Altick characterizes the tone of this correspondence as flirtatious.
Altick, Richard D. The Cowden Clarkes. Oxford University Press.
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Textual Features Dinah Mulock Craik
The narrator is a male invalid named Phineas Fletcher, a descendent of the poet (1582-1650) whose name he shares. He has an intense (at least on his side) homosocial relationship with the title character.
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Cowden Clarke
MCC 's mother, born Mary Sabilla Hehl , was a lively and intelligent woman, an author, and the most popular hostess in the Leigh Hunt-Charles Lamb circle.
Wilson, Katharina M. et al., editors. Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia. Garland.
She died in 1854.
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead.
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In My Long...

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Texts

Browning, Robert. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Ring and the Book, edited by Richard D. Altick, Yale University Press, 1971, pp. 7 - 20, 629.
Browning, Robert. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Ring and the Book, edited by Thomas J. Collins and Richard D. Altick, Broadview, 2001, pp. vii - xviii; 765.
Altick, Richard D. The Cowden Clarkes. Oxford University Press, 1948.
Altick, Richard D. The English Common Reader. Ohio State University Press, 1998.
Browning, Robert. The Ring and the Book. Editors Collins, Thomas J. and Richard D. Altick, Broadview, 2001.
Altick, Richard D. The Shows of London. Belknap Press, 1978.