Whyte Melville

After this she completed her education at home. Although even in this context she says, I was not well educated, for I never would learn, she also described herself as having always been from...

The three title-pages of this novel bear lines of poetry on their versoes: from, respectively, Bret Harte , Whyte Melville , and Longfellow . Its tone (except perhaps in the denouement) is quite unlike the...

Relaying this account in his biography of JSW , Oliver Bainbridge wrote that she researched, along with the methods of Wilkie Collins, those of her other favourites including Charles Reade , Charles and Henry Kingsley

While in reminiscence JSW was uncertain as to the title of this early composition, she acknowledged the influence on it of Ouida and Whyte Melville . She sent the story to the journal Wedding Bells...