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Author summary | John Oliver Hobbes | Writing for a brief period at the turn of the twentieth century, the pseudonymous JOH
(whose actual married name was Pearl Craigie
) was the author of over a dozen novellas, novels, and several plays... |
Author summary | Evelyn Waugh | EW
was a twentieth-century novelist whose startling black humour goes together with devastating satire and a low estimate of unredeemed human nature (whether he is fictionalizing the failings of other people or of himself). He... |
Author summary | Lady Lucy Herbert | LLH
was a Roman Catholic
who became a prioress and published at least three devotional works during the early eighteenth century. She may also have written advice on teaching in the convent. |
Author summary | Georgiana Fullerton | Publishing all through the 1840s and the 1880s, GF
worked in a variety of genres, including poetry, biography, drama, and most notably the novel. While many of her eleven novels adopt tropes from sensation fiction... |
Author summary | Susanna Hopton | SH
's intense involvement in the religious controversies of the later seventeenth century led her to study, write, and publish texts both theological and devotional, often adapting Roman Catholic
sources to make them usable by... |
Author summary | George Douglas | Lady Gertrude Georgina Douglas (later Stock) wrote during the later nineteenth century under the name of George Douglas
. She used the novel both as a means of earning money and as a vehicle for... |
Author summary | Alice Meynell | AM
was a late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century poet, as well as the author of criticism, journalism, essays, art reviews, introductions, and translations. Her output amounted to ten essay collections and six poetry volumes during... |
Publishing | May Laffan | At the age of twenty-five ML
published in Fraser's Magazine the anonymous article Convent Boarding-Schools for Young Ladies, an attack on the Catholic
system of women's education. Helena Kelleher Kahn
claims that ML
signed... |
Publishing | Ellen Mary Clerke | EMC
was a frequent, lifelong contributor to both English and Italian periodicals. She wrote for the journal of the Manchester Geographical Society
, National Review, Contemporary Review, Gentleman's Magazine, and (less frequently... |
Publishing | Georgiana Fullerton | GF
serialized in the newly founded Catholic journal The Month her faux-autobiographical novel Constance Sherwood, about persecution of Roman Catholics
during the English Reformation. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. 237 C19: The Nineteenth Century Index. http://c19index.chadwyck.com/home.do. |
Publishing | Charlotte Mary Brame | CMB
published her first collection of short stories, titled Tales from the Diary of a Sister of Mercy. The material in this volume had originally appeared in the Catholic
magazine called The Lamp. Drozdz, Gregory. Charlotte Mary Brame. Gregory Drozdz. 8 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Publishing | Katharine Tynan | |
Publishing | Christina Stead | Having decided to leave Simon and Schuster
, CS
submitted this work in manuscript to Angus Cameron
of Little Brown
, but she may have done this too early, since he replied that it needed... |
Reception | Frances Trollope | Helen Heineman
describes this book as a pastiche of seances, mesmerism, Roman Catholic
conversions, wicked guardians, and social class snobbery that displays a distinct decline Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press. 249 |
Reception | Elizabeth Jennings | In the Times Literary SupplementPeter Redgrove
welcomed EJ
as a good rather than a great poet, lyrical, metaphysical, and psychologically penetrating, a very accomplished writer of short pieces. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2705 (4 December 1953): 778 |
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