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Literary responses | Matilda Betham-Edwards | The Athenæum review was lukewarm at best, since the reviewer found the character of Strickland almost intolerably irritating.It summed up the work as a fairly well-written book of the better modern fashion [in contrast with... |
Textual Production | Matilda Betham-Edwards | |
Education | Phyllis Bottome | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Phyllis Bottome | By borrowing the title of Émile Zola
's J'accuse, published on 13 January 1898 to uncover the conspiracy against Alfred Dreyfus
, PB
invoked both the long history of European anti-semitism, and the occasional... |
Education | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | She knew France and the French language well. Not only did she use France as a setting and French literature as a resource for plots, and subscribe to Rolandi
's French circulating library, but she... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | |
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 Features | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Wolff sees this novel as working out the Zola
theory of hereditary destiny. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 308 |
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. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
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 |
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... |
Education | Colette | Colette wrote later of the way that a free and solitary childhood and adolescence, with plenty of opportunity to develop self-awareness and without any pressure to self-expression, had shaped her mind before the compulsion to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Marie Corelli | Ziska is openly critical of the writings of Zola
, while praising those of Lord Byron
. It also condemns the hypocrisy and destruction of Western imperialism at the fin de siècle: We take possession... |
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