Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press.
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Textual Production | Anne Marsh | |
Literary Setting | Mrs Martin | |
Reception | Naomi Mitchison | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Nancy Mitford | |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Oliphant | |
Education | George Orwell | Brought back to England at the age of three, Eric Blair (later GO
) was enabled by a scholarship and contributions from relations to go to St Cyprian's, a well-known but oppressive boys' preparatory school... |
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... |
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's unpublished manuscripts and letters are held by the University of London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 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Savage | MS
's son George Savage
was born on 18 July 1750 and educated at Eton
. He went on to King's College, Cambridge, was ordained and held posts successively as chaplain to a member of... |
Education | Percy Bysshe Shelley | As a schoolboy at EtonPBS
opposed the system of fagging (allotting junior boys virtually as private slaves to wait on older ones). He was expelled by University College, Oxford
(which later set up a... |
Textual Features | Harriet Smythies | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Strachey | JS
's father, Oliver Strachey
, was the sixth son of Sir Richard
and Jane Maria, Lady Strachey
. He attended Eton
, then Balliol College, Oxford
; the family home was in London... |
Literary Setting | Jan Struther | In JS
's original concept, her heroine moved on the fringes of high society, as her name implies. Miniver derives from vair, which is merely squirrel fur but is used in ceremonial costume, it also... |
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