Michael Sadleir

In his introduction to the book, Michael Sadleir commends its descriptive detail and period expression. He suggests that MB 's reading of human nature and of the capacity for pity produces a realistic, alarming, sinister...

MB was admired in her own day by others who prided themselves on the popular touch in their writing: Mark Twain , Walter de la Mare , Compton Mackenzie , and Hugh Walpole , who...

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...

Its circulation was enormous. In its three-volume form it went through eight issues in its first three months, although reviewers implied that early announcements of these new editions were a form of puffery. Bibliographer Michael Sadleir

RB was presumably white, and was born into an Anglican , upper-middle-class family, with an English father and Irish mother. She grew up at Broughton Hall near Eccleshall in Staffordshire, an Elizabethan manor house...

RB left no evidence as to her possible sexual orientation or erotic relationships. A number of critics (notably Michael Sadleir ) have suggested that an early unhappy love affair prompted her frequently cynical representations of...

The Athenæum, describing Belinda as RB 's worst novel, noted a similarity of her central couple to Dorothea and Casaubon in George Eliot 's Middlemarch. It deemed Eliot's characterisation decidedly superior, maintaning that...

This novel received a favourable review in The Pall Mall Gazette.Michael Sadleir (one of several to suggest that RB 's best work was in the single-volume novel rather than the triple-decker), wrote...

Sadleir , noting the autobiographical element in this novel's subject-matter, judged that it eschews the cynicism and self-mockery of A Beginner in favour of a deliberate plunge into the ardours and agonies of a distant...

Regrettably, bibliographer Michael Sadleir makes no mention of MAB in his piece on the Dublin University Magazine, 1838.

As it began its course of posthumous publication, the Dublin University Magazine praised MAB for staying out of the masculine fields of analysis and abstract thought. This set a tone for later comments: as for...

SSE , as Mrs Ellis, dated the preface to her second advice book, The Daughters of England: Their Position in Society, Character and Responsibilities.

She was introduced to Alfred and Blanche Knopf by her publisher and friend Michael Sadleir . In her autobiography she comments, I wrote to every well-known author under the age of fifty. I had...

Michael Sadleir first took Jameson to the Thursday evening salons hosted by Naomi Royde-Smith at her Queen's Gate home. These gatherings were attended by Rose Macaulay , Arnold Bennett , Edward Marsh , and Frank Swinnerton

This had been rejected by such publishers as Duckworth and Fisher Unwin before it was accepted, with revisions, by Michael Sadleir at Constable . Jameson had sent her typescript to Constable under her husband 's...