Glyn, Anthony. Elinor Glyn. Hutchinson.
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Publishing | Alicia Tyndal Palmer | Her title-page quotes a wish voiced on 1 December 1814 in the House of Lords
that it were possible to summon Sobieski to attend the Congress of Vienna which was even then deciding the political... |
Reception | Naomi Mitchison | |
Reception | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Within a few years Jessie White Mario
was frequently quoting Casa Guidi Windows in her campaign for the Italian cause, and after her death the City of Florence marked EBB
's contribution to unification with... |
Reception | Elinor Glyn | EG
's close friend Lady Warwick
, when shown the finished manuscript of this book, warned EG
not to publish it, or she would tarnish or ruin her reputation. Glyn, Anthony. Elinor Glyn. Hutchinson. 127 Hardwick, Joan. Addicted to Romance: The Life and Adventures of Elinor Glyn. Andre Deutsch. 119 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth De la Pasture | EDP
explained to her American readers that the eponymous heroine of Peter's Mother, Lady Mary Crewys, was typical of an Englishwoman of a certain class in being isolated and guarded from all practical knowledge... |
Textual Features | Annie Keary | The story takes place against the background of the Great Famine (which is just about to begin when the novel opens, in 1845) and the Young Ireland
Rebellion of July 1848. The young Dalys, offspring... |
Textual Features | E. M. Delafield | She obliged in her best comic vein. She enumerated the views of Englishmen on England (the views of women are not mentioned) in what today would be bullet points, as a kind of lovable reactionary's... |
Textual Features | Florence Dixie | FD
sets out her own position in her preface: The Author's best and truest friends, with few exceptions, have been and are men. But the Author will never recognise man's glory and welfare in woman's... |
Textual Features | Maria Edgeworth | In this later edition ME
discarded three stories which she moved to Early Lessons, and added Tarlton, Lazy Lawrence, The False Key, The Birthday Present, Old Poz, The Mimic... |
Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | As Robert Lee Wolff
argues, The Lady's Mile represents an innovation in the portrayal of male character in Victorian fiction: MEB
's brave officer sells his commission and leaves the army in order to pursue... |
Textual Features | Julia O'Faolain | She set her radio play in a private girls' boarding school in St Albans (based on one where she had taught), staffed by geriatric lesbians who, the headmistress insisted, were all varsity women. The school... |
Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | Whatever the truth of that, she wrote in full consciousness of outsider status, both delight[ing] in the patriarchal anonymity of the TLS and simultaneously tilt[ing] at it. Wood, James. “Phut-Phut”. London Review of Books, pp. 11-12. 11 |
Textual Features | Kathleen Caffyn | This three-volume narrative opens on the childhood of Gwen and Dacre Waring, a sister and brother who grow up in a wealthy, intellectual and agnostic family. Their parents' unorthodox values do not, however, extend to... |
Textual Features | Mrs Ross | Many chapters are headed with quotations from Shakespeare
or Cowper
. This novel pits domestic (upper-class) ties against destructive passions, the latter aroused by the fascinating Marchioness of Laisville (whose vices do not ruin her... |
Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | In her journals she occasionally refers to herself in the masculine as Anodos (her pseudonym, which sounds like a Greek, masculine personal name). In one such entry she writes: If Anodos had a boy (which... |
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