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under Gilbert Frankau
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Textual Production | Julia Frankau | |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Gilding | Her title was To the Gentleman, who under the signature Etonensis, addressed some fine poetic lines, containing a very genteel compliment to Mrs. T—r, of Woolwich. Cumbre had identified himself through this pseudonym, Etoniensis... |
Textual Production | Henry Green | HG
published the first of his nine novels, Blindness, about a student who loses his sight; it was based on a story he had written while still at Eton
. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 290 Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. 237 |
Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Most of ATR
's unpublished manuscripts and letters are held by the University of London
and Eton College
libraries. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press. 333 |
Textual Production | Susan Hill | SH
has successfully self-published, and makes extensive use of new media. She is active as both a blogger and a tweeter. In 2013 both Printer's Devil Court, her latest ghost story, and Crystal... |
Textual Production | Anne Marsh | |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
Textual Features | Eliza Haywood | In her introduction EH
, anonymously, says she is opposed to romances, novels, and whatever carries the air of them. Haywood, Eliza. Life’s Progress Through the Passions. Garland Publishing, http://HSS. 3 |
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