Ethel M. Arnold

Standard Name: Arnold, Ethel M.
Active at the turn of the twentieth century, EA was a well-received author and pro-suffrage speaker. With a particular faculty for literary criticism, she wrote over four hundred book reviews and twenty news stories for the Manchester Guardian . Her fictional publications include two short stories and a novel, the latter of which is notable for its transparent portrayal of female friendship and the new Victorian woman.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Augusta Ward
One of MAW 's younger sisters became the writer, lecturer, and photographer Ethel Arnold .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Another, Julia , who was eleven years younger than Mary Augusta, was an early graduate of Somerville College, Oxford ...
Friends, Associates Rhoda Broughton
The Times obituary (which was accompanied by an editorial) commented that Broughton herself was more entertaining than her novels, filling her social role far more brilliantly than any of her Joans or Nancies or Belindas...
Leisure and Society Rhoda Broughton
RB was fond of dogs, and in her Oxford days was known for her habit of striding about the town followed by at least two (and usually more) pugdogs.
Sadleir, Michael. Things Past. Constable, 1944.
92
Ethel Arnold recalled a pug...
Literary responses Rhoda Broughton
The Times marked RB 's death with an editorial asserting her permanent value as a novelist,
Times. Times Publishing Company.
(7 June 1920): 13
as well as with an obituary. The former commented that Broughton had made a sound...
Textual Production Rhoda Broughton
Her friend Ethel Arnold reported that Second Thoughts was RB 's own favourite among her works. She wrote it while another friend, Adelaide Kemble , was dying, and would read Kemble chapters at her bedside...
Textual Production Rhoda Broughton
It was revised, expanded, and then issued in two volumes by 20 April 1867 (several months before the earlier-written novel). It reached a second edition late that year. A scholarly edition by Pamela K. Gilbert
Wealth and Poverty Rhoda Broughton
RB , who published almost exclusively with Bentley throughout her career, preferred to receive a lump sum for her novels rather than to rely on royalites and copyright earnings. In her reminiscence Ethel Arnold suggests...

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Arnold, Ethel. “A Few Words on the Intellectual and Physical Powers of Women”. Oxford High School Magazine, No. 6, pp. 263-7.
Arnold, Ethel. Platonics: A Novel. Reprint of 1894 edition, Thoemmes Press, 1995.
Arnold, Ethel. “Reminiscenses of Lewis Carroll”. The Atlantic Monthly, No. 143, pp. 782-89.
Arnold, Ethel. “Rhoda Broughton as I Knew Her”. Fortnightly Review, Vol.
114
, 1920, pp. 262-78.
Arnold, Ethel. “Social Life in Oxford”. Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 1890, pp. 246-56.
Arnold, Ethel. “The First Decade of Our Corporate Life”. Oxford High School Magazine, No. 19, pp. 901-2.
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich. Tourguéneff and His French Circle; Edited by E. Halperine-Kaminsky; Translated [from the French] by Ethel M. Arnold. Editor Halpérine-Kaminsky, Ely, Translator Arnold, Ethel, Henry Holt & Company, 1898.