Émile Zola

Standard Name: Zola, Émile
Used Form: Emile Zola

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Bessie Rayner Parkes
A second edition appeared a year later, and a paperback edition in 2008.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
This collection contains Parkes's reminiscences of George Eliot , Anna Jameson , Mary Howitt , Georgiana Fullerton , and Catherine Booth ...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Marie Belloc Lowndes
This book deals very largely with her French extended family, her visits to France as a young adult, and her French social circles. She meant it to dispel certain false ideas, English rather than American...
Textual Production Viola Meynell
VM published Lot Barrow, a naturalist novel in the tradition of George Moore and Émile Zola .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen.
100, 105
Textual Production Matilda Betham-Edwards
Helen Black questioned her closely about her preferences in literature, and learned that Betham-Edwards endeavour[ed] to appreciate all the living novelists, but found the school of Tolstoy , Ibsen , and Zolarepulsive in the...
Textual Production Graham Greene
Borrowing a famous title from Zola , GG issued through a London publisher J'Accuse: The Dark Side of Nice, in which he accused the mayor of Nice in southern France, along with other...
Textual Production Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB 's triple-decker The Golden Calf, 1883, is a naturalistic study of alcoholism, while Phantom Fortune another from the same year, features a decadent orphaned heiress named Lady Lesbia, and is based in part...
Textual Production Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Harvard 's Houghton Library has a number of significant manuscripts by MEB including notebooks as well as novels. The extensive collection of her printed titles and manuscripts owned by Robert Lee Wolff of Harvard University
Textual Production Anita Brookner
AB published an ambitious art-critical work: The Genius of the Future: Studies in French Art Criticism: Diderot , Stendhal , Baudelaire , Zola , The BrothersGoncourt , Huysmans.
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Textual Features Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Wolff sees this novel as working out the Zola theory of hereditary destiny.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland.
308
However, although Ishmael vows to avenge his wrongs, when he discovers Pâquerette and Valnois separately years after their elopement he forgoes...
Textual Features Anita Brookner
Its subjects are Ingres , Delacroix and Antoine-Jean Gros , Musset , Baudelaire , Edmond and Jules Goncourt , Zola and Huysmans . That is, AB has returned to take a different view of the...
Reception Rhoda Broughton
An article by Eliza Lynn Linton written in June 1887 (well after the ebbing of RB 's early, scandalous reputation) judged that her books were always essentially love-stories, and nothing else,
Linton, Eliza Lynn. “Miss Broughton’s Novels”. Temple Bar, Vol.
80
, pp. 196-09.
203
but that without...
Publishing Julia Frankau
Henry Vizetelly , a publisher associated with progressive thinking of various kinds—he went to prison for publishing translations of Zola —promoted this novel by emphasis on its being a picture of Jewish life.
Lock, Stephen, and Julia Frankau. “Introduction”. Dr. Phillips, The Keynes Press, p. v - xii.
vii
Publishing Margaret Harkness
Her publisher was the notorious firm of Henry Vizetelly , who was to be jailed the year after this for publishing English translations of Zola . Vizetelly arranged for MH 's novel to be translated...
Occupation Gustave Flaubert
One of the great practioners of literary realism, he shifted the European novel significantly towards naturalism. His influence ranged far, from literary friends such as Émile Zola to writers in English, including Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Literary responses Kathleen Caffyn
While this novel enjoyed popular acclaim, it also attracted severe criticism. It was derided by reviewers in the Bookman, the Critic, and the Nation. The Critic reviewer ignored Gwen's final return to...

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2 April 1840: Novelist Émile Zola was born in Paris, F...

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2 April 1840

Novelist Émile Zola was born in Paris, France.

11 February 1858: At Lourdes in the French Pyrenees, a fourteen-year-old...

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11 February 1858

At Lourdes in the FrenchPyrenees, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous , saw a vision which others identified as the Virgin Mary.

November 1867: Émile Zola published Thérèse Raquin, a naturalistic...

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November 1867

Émile Zola published Thérèse Raquin, a naturalistic novel treating adultery, murder, and poetic justice.

1871-93: Émile Zola published Les Rougon-Macquart...

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1871-93

Émile Zola published Les Rougon-Macquart in twenty volumes: La fortune des Rougon was the first, and Le docteur Pascal the last.

1880: Émile Zola published The Experimental No...

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1880

Émile Zola published The Experimental Novel.

By 21 February 1880: Émile Zola published Nana....

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By 21 February 1880

Émile Zola published Nana.

1883: George Moore, already a disciple of Zola,...

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1883

George Moore , already a disciple of Zola , published his first, semi-autobiographicalnovel, A Modern Lover, in realist style.

Late 1884: Publisher Henry Vizetelly produced the first...

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Late 1884

Publisher Henry Vizetelly produced the first English translations of Émile Zola : the novels Nana and L'Assommoir.

1888: The National Vigilance Association brought...

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1888

The National Vigilance Association brought a successful case against Henry Vizetelly for publishing English translations of Émile Zola .

15 October 1894: Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer...

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15 October 1894

Captain Alfred Dreyfus , a Jewish officer in the French Army, was arrested on a (false) charge of treason.

13 January 1898: Emile Zola published J'Accuse in the newspaper...

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13 January 1898

Emile Zola published J'Accuse in the newspaper L'Aurore: an open letter to President Faure of France , levelling accusations about the unjust trial and punishment of the Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus .

29 September 1902: Émile Zola, novelist, died at his home, Rue...

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29 September 1902

Émile Zola , novelist, died at his home, Rue de Bruxelles in Paris, of carbon monoxide poisoning, which made some people suspect sabotage.

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