Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Academy gave Condoned a largely negative review, arguing that Steele had with the odd lack of judgment which not seldom distinguishes lady novelists, done nearly all she could to spoil her book.

On the whole reviewers were enthusiastic (E. S. Dallas began his notice in the Times, George Eliot is as great as ever), but the ending of The Mill on the Floss...

RWB was a poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright. After arriving in London in 1859, he was engaged by the Athenæum. He wrote for several other periodicals, and became known for his attacks on Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Charles MacKay , now finding it difficult to write, became increasingly pressed to procure a healthy income. Fortunately, one of his physicians was impressed with MC 's piano-playing and he offered his drawing-room for a...

She wrote later that the idea for this book came to her when love-poems, which she had printed in journals but deliberately not included in Maurine, aroused strong interest and requests for copies. Jansen and McClurg

Again, however, the Athenæum had a reservation: this time the influence of Swinburne , which it detected in alliteration and other points of technique.

In England, Swinburne helped promote a newly sexualized and aestheticized Sappho with Anactoria in Poems and Ballads (1866).

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes the influence of Swinburne and the Pre-Raphaelites on this and later volumes by LH .

She was excited by her first experience of the south, and called Cambridge a city of light. As a teacher in London, she lived first at 164 Engadine Street in Southfields, south-west London...

Betty Barnes, The Book Burner was probably inspired by Walter Scott 's account of a cook who used her employer's manuscript collection to fuel a fire and line pie-tins. Other titles in this volume...

The story opens with Charles Osmond's son Brian, a young doctor in Bloomsbury, and his daily observation of a tall schoolgirl on her way home with her books. This is Erica Raeburn, who has...

As editor of The Burlington, HM recruited authors such as Edward Aveling , A. C. Swinburne , and Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde . She contributed serial novels, short stories and editorial articles herself. She...

In her preface she claims the ballad and other popular poetic forms as the especial territory of women writers. Although her poems, says this preface, lack the splendour of Byron or Hugo , or the...

The historical Sappho had emerged by this date as a potentially lesbian or bisexual figure, for instance in the work of Swinburne ; Michael Field 's Long Ago was published this same year. Dawson's Sappho...

The poem is innovative in its blend of novelistic discourse and subject-matter—its depiction of the urban landscape and contemporary social issues including wife-beating and prostitution were indebted to both the English and French novel—with the...