but unbeknownst to their parents, the sisters published it to support the family after their father
became ill and bedridden...
Anthologization
Marion Moss
MM
's Lines Written on the Death of Grace Aguilar are reprinted in the Broadview Press
edition of Aguilar's Selected Writings, 2003.
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A dramatic version of Lady Audley's Secret was staged by Ruth Herbert
at the St James's Theatre
, where MEB
had recollections of being overstimulated as a child.
Carnell, Jennifer. The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Study of Her Life and Work. Sensation Press, 2000.
Reviewers of the Broadview
edition commented that Craik's original is fascinating, and credited it with confound[ing] the usual binaries and prejudices of the period.
qtd. in
Broadview Press. http://www.broadviewpress.com/.
Literary responses
Susanna Haswell Rowson
The Critical Review was unimpressed by this novel: a strange medley of romance, history, and novel, in which the scenery is changed with the pantomimical rapidity of Voltaire
's Candide. . . . aukwardly...
Literary Setting
Edith Wharton
In The Custom of the Country (1913, issued in a scholarly edition by Broadview
in 2008), Undine Spragg, beautiful social climber and insatiable consumer, already has two entanglements in her unmentionable past at Apex City...
names
Delarivier Manley
BirthName: Delarivier Manley
Nickname: Dela
Married: Manley
DM
married a cousin, so her birth and married names are the same. Early scholarship on her called her Mary (from confusion with a sister who died quite...
Publishing
Mary Wollstonecraft
Many critics describe this as a travel book: the first one by a Romantic writer to deal with the exotic North. Critic Gary Kelly
, however, says that it purports
Kelly, Gary. Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. Macmillan, 1992.
JC
's commonplace-book contains notes towards her preface for this book.
Collier, Jane et al. Common Place Book. 1748–1755.
144
The frontispiece shows a cat contemplating a mouse (drawn in a style derived from the emblem tradition), and a surrounding garter with the...
Publishing
Amelia Opie
Its full title was The Father and Daughter. A tale in prose; with an Epistle from the Maid of Corinth to her lover; and other poetical pieces. After a first print-run of 750 copies...
Publishing
Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
She wrote it while a member of the Marquess of Abercorn
''s household, where she read it aloud in the evenings to less than informed criticism. As before, she and Phillips
could not agree on...
Publishing
Marie Corelli
The novel is an indictment of the Decadent Movement for its immorality and sensationalism, yet critic Annette R. Federico
notes that the antidecadent novel is packaged as the very flower of decadence, even down to...
About 1470: The Distaff Gospels, a collection of the...
Writing climate item
About 1470
The Distaff Gospels, a collection of the beliefs, proverbs, stories, medical and cookery recipes, and advice of medieval peasant women, is assigned to this date by its editors, Kathleen Garay
and Madeleine Jeay
.
Black, Joseph Laurence, editor. Broadview Anthology of British Literature. Broadview Press, 2006.
Carlisle, Janice. “Introduction”. Factory Lives, edited by James R. Simmons, Broadview Press, 2007.
Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. Editor Urgo, Joseph R., Broadview Press, 2003.
Costanzo, Angelo, editor. “Appendix A: Letters and Reviews”. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Broadview Press, 2001, pp. 255-6.
Cross, Victoria. “Theodora. A Fragment”. A New Woman Reader: Fiction, Articles, and Drama of the 1890s, edited by Carolyn Christensen Nelson, Broadview Press, 2001, pp. 70-90.
Foster, Mrs E. M. “Introduction”. The Woman of Colour. A Tale, edited by Lyndon J. Dominique, Broadview Editions, Broadview Press, 2008, pp. 11-42.
Collins, Wilkie. “Appendices”. Heart and Science, edited by Steve Farmer, Broadview Press, 1996, pp. 329-79.
Frawley, Maria H., and Harriet Martineau. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Life in the Sick-Room, Broadview Press, 2003, pp. 11 - 31, 161.
Robinson, Mary. Walsingham, or, The Pupil of Nature. Editor Shaffer, Julie A., Broadview Press, 2003.
Sheridan, Frances. The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph. Editors Hutner, Heidi and Nicole Garret, Broadview Editions, Broadview Press, 2011.
Yonge, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Clever Woman of the Family, edited by Clare Simmons, Broadview Press, 2001, pp. 7-26.
Simmons, James R., editor. Factory Lives. Broadview Press, 2007.
Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, 2003, pp. 9-39.