George Saintsbury

This was one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century. Two years after it appeared it was the favourite choice of young officers in hospital during the Crimean War. A guardsman confessed that...

George Saintsbury in 1913 developed an attack on this book as very nearly consummate in badness. . . . a fair example of the worst imitations of Mrs. Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis conjointly, though without...

She attended the Victoria School for Girls in Belfast from 1900, then took a year of private study from 1907 to 1908 before going on to read English (with Latin and French) at Queen's University, Belfast

Besides Saintsbury , another important early and lifelong friend of HW from an older generation was George Pritchard Taylor , a missionary in India whom she met in 1914 on one of his rare visits...

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes several of HW 's relationships with older men (like Gregory Smith , George Saintsbury , and Otto Kyllmann , chairman of Constable ) as platonic love affairs.Kyllmann

It was in connection with this play (but before he read the manuscript) that George Saintsbury told HW she had the authentic mark of the Maker [that is, the poet] on your forehead.

HW provided an introduction for William Forbes Marshall 's Ballads and Verses from Tyrone, published by the Talbot Press of Dublin in 1929, and an Appreciation for George Saintsbury 's Shakespeare, 1934. Her...

An earlier translator was Charlotte Smith , whose version appeared in probably late 1785. George Saintsbury supplied an introduction for Waddell's translation (which was reprinted in 1934). This work led to another, a play about...

Smith's Manon had an indifferent reception and weak sales. The three contemporary reviews, all mixed, all expressed anxiety about the work's moral effect. A later translation by Helen Waddell , 1931, provided the...

George Saintsbury wrote in 1913, remembering RMR 's once great popularity, that her books were best read, as they were for generations, in late childhood or early youth. Even then an intelligent boy or girl...

The novel was not well received by critics. In the Academy, George Saintsbury wrote that he could not honestly say that Arden discovers much vocation for novel-writing. The Athenæum expressed admiration for the...

AMP was, with her sister, one of those praised by John O'Keeffe in his poem Female Authors, Being an Answer to a Lady, who asserted, that by transmigration the soul of Shakespeare lived in the...

George Saintsbury , writing in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, grouped CN as a poet with Mathilde Blind , Amy Levy , and Michael Field . He called her writing a...

George Saintsbury found the title ridiculous and the novel worthy of the title. He blamed it for blocks of spiritless and commonplace historic narrative, and for such anachronisms the gentle and elegant heroine being educated...

Byron praised the Canterbury Tales, but in 1913George Saintsbury asserted that Byron had done so either irresponsibly or impishly. They were, he said, not exactly bad, but also as far as possible from...