Eton College

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...

Among AM 's surviving letters are a few to friends about her early publications and her feelings about them. She kept her letters to her son, Martin, during his final year at Eton . To...

Other titles were A Coquette in Crape, 1907, An Incomplete Eton ian, 1909,Full Swing,1914, and The Story Behind the Verdict, 1915.

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...

Most of ATR 's unpublished manuscripts and letters are held by the University of London and Eton College libraries.

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 .

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...

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...

In her introduction EH , anonymously, says she is opposed to romances, novels, and whatever carries the air of them. She will not, she says, exaggerate good or bad qualities, but give the unvarnished...

HS 's two villains are in truth fairly familiar, as are her two heroes, Henry Fitzherbert and Edgar Aubrey, and her two heroines, Camilla St Clair and Emily Harland. Fitzherbert takes most of the narrative...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...