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...
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
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...
