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The Lost Word draws on but warps the conventions of aestheticism. Catherine Alstone's passion for art is not inflected by practical concerns, but neither is it art for artisticness that I want . ....

This novel focuses on Beatrice, an orphan of mysterious origin who ends up after a shipwreck in the imaginary Scottish village of Clanmarina. She is taken in by Sir Evan McAlpine, and Lady Edith, his...

AK 's interpretation casts the story in religious terms, depicting the warring tribes of Gepidæ and Langobards as enemies because of their differing beliefs. While the Langobards are Christians (though AK is careful to note...

The petitions mention the death of her husband, Captain James Butler , at the battle of Aughrim (a Williamite victory over Jacobite or Catholic forces), the deaths of her children, the loss of her house...

A spirited female narrator (who resembles CL herself in much though not all of her experience) tells the story of her past life to a dear friend. Harriot is an intellectual heroine, a keen reader...

The letters provide a detailed account of the thirty-nine-year love affair between STW and Ackland . The pair wrote letters to each other whether they were apart or together, and the result is an intimate...

The protagonist of The Deserter is a young Irish soldier in the British army. When he deserts (having got into bad company) he is arrested and re-possessed by the army. Serving in India, he...

There follows a series of six stories under the general title A Sketch from the Parlour of my Inn, three of which open with quotations from William Wordsworth . The final story in this...

Yet often the political critique runs counter to the novel's religous concerns. Indeed, even as it attacks the outrageous conditions of the industrial poor, the novel seems to welcome the moral scourge they provide, as...

In Lady Mary Pierrepoint the title character is a Protestant whose virago widowed mother-in-law (Lady Pierrepont) intends to disinherit her son Sir Cosmo (Mary's husband) and leave her lands to the Roman Catholic Church ...

After these revelations the earl dies, leaving Laurie the bulk of his estate. Treated cruelly by her newly-discovered aunt and cousins because her appearance has dispossessed them of expected inheritance, Laurie finds some comfort in...

Critic Ian Sansom notes the preference this poetry evinces for familiarity and tradition. He singles out for mention the opening poem, Death in Leamington (about the bleakness of a woman's death in lonely, genteel poverty),...

In Mrs. Gerald's Niece Margaret, the heroine of Grantley Manor, is now Mrs Walter Sydney and is thirty-seven. The new novel engages with the Oxford Movement , detailing the doctrinal progression of Ita and...

GF is still struggling here with the relative merits of fiction and biography. Her preface puts forward the idea that when a biography is able to present its readers with a reflection of their own...

The wife, Jessie Enderby, is much younger than the middle-aged colonel. She is presented (by a male narrator who sees himself as a social historian and social critic) not as the passive victim of a...