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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Marjorie Bowen | 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... |
Literary responses | Marjorie Bowen | 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... |
Textual Production | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 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... |
Publishing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 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 |
Cultural formation | Rhoda Broughton | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rhoda Broughton | 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... |
Literary responses | Rhoda Broughton | 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... |
Literary responses | Rhoda Broughton | This novel received a favourable review in The Pall Mall Gazette. Wood, Marilyn. Rhoda Broughton: Profile of a Novelist. Paul Watkins. 81 |
Literary responses | Rhoda Broughton | 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... |
Reception | Mary Ann Browne | Regrettably, bibliographer Michael Sadleir
makes no mention of MAB
in his piece on the Dublin University Magazine, 1838. Sadleir, Michael. “Dublin University Magazine: Its History, Contents and Bibliography”. The Bibliographical Society of Ireland, pp. 59-81. |
Literary responses | Mary Ann Browne | 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... |
Textual Production | Sarah Stickney Ellis | SSE
, as Mrs Ellis, dated the preface to her second advice book, The Daughters of England: Their Position in Society, Character and Responsibilities. Bibliographer Michael Sadleir
, however, records a different... |
Occupation | Storm Jameson | She was introduced to Alfred
and Blanche Knopf
by her publisher and friend Michael Sadleir
. Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row. 188 |
Friends, Associates | Storm Jameson | 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 |
Publishing | Storm Jameson | 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... |