Émile Zola

During her lifetime CY was ranked as a serious novelist with Austen , Trollope , Balzac , and Zola . Contemporaries like Louisa Alcott , Margaret Oliphant , Ellen Wood , and Rhoda Broughton made...

FS devotes a great deal of space to mining operations and to relations between the Dutch and the English settlers. After briefly describing the underground part of the De Beers Company diamond mines in Kimberley...

OS 's belated preface explains her anti-realist method, directed against the influence of Zola and Tolstoy , whose predictability she disliked. Here nothing can be prophesied. There is a strange coming and going of feet...

A second edition appeared a year later, and a paperback edition in 2008. This collection contains Parkes's reminiscences of George Eliot , Anna Jameson , Mary Howitt , Georgiana Fullerton , and Catherine Booth ...

VM published Lot Barrow, a naturalist novel in the tradition of George Moore and Émile Zola .

Though ML was familiar with the canonical English Victorian novelists (and, less usually, with Samuel Richardson 's Sir Charles Grandison, to whose great length she alludes with approval), those writers she acknowledged as influences...

Thomas Hardy told LM after reading this novel that she was one of the few authors of the other sex who are not afraid of logical consequences. He also said that the wages of...

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...

When her mother dies leaving her some money, Janet writes to her husband (who still idolises her, but looks down upon her from a mental height and explains things in the simplest possible way, with...

In Paris his friend Ivan Turgenev introduced him to Maupassant , Zola , and Daudet , among others.

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...

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...

She again set her novel in her fictionalised version of Norwich, Morningquest. Of its three heroines, Angelica makes a moderately successful, though unconventional marriage to a man twenty years her senior to whom she...

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.

JF 's Times obituary compared this novel favourably with Zola 's Le rêve.