Isobel Grundy

Her mother, Lady Bute , has often been represented in writings about her mother as dull and conservative. But she had written immensely talented and satirical poems during her teenage years, then married the man...

The Critical judged this novel to be more original than The Auction, with better-realised characters, although it found the plot improbable, unnatural, and confused. Critic Isobel Grundy suggests that AW belongs...

While still anonymous, the author of these poems has attracted appreciation from Isobel Grundy (for smash[ing] so many preconceptions, including the idea that the theme of courtship or seduction belongs to male rather than female...

When SG 's writings re-emerged in the mid twentieth century, they were greeted by two articles in Theatre Notebook: one by F. Grice and A. Clarke and another by Godfrey Greene . These began...

Literary historian Isobel Grundy observes that CHexplicitly and joyously constructs herself as female subject enlisted in unequal battle between the sexes,and connects her use of military imagery with her growing up during...

This novel was the second of RH 's to be affectionately mocked by Jane Austen . Austen sent her niece the future Anna Lefroy a letter purportedly for delivery to RH herself, in the formal...

Contemporary responses to this poem have not been found. Isobel Grundy has written that MSM 's interest for us resides in [her] ambivalent posture, between revolt and submission. . . In an age of dawning...

Isobel Grundy has considered this as a novel of metamorphoses, an extended allusion to the belief that women were particularly prone to shifts in mood or in affections, and the requirement that they, and female...

It was LLH who persuaded her sister Winifred to write out the full story of how she engineered her husband's escape from the Tower and who then preserved and apparently circulated the story. She no...

The second edition or issue, later the same year from George Kearsley of Fleet Street, seems to indicate that EF was dissatisfied with the publishers she had first chosen. There is a Broadview

Montagu's first scholarly editor was Robert Halsband , with The Nonsense of Common-Sense (Northwestern University Press , 1947), Complete Letters, 1965-7, and Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy, 1977. In the...

Sheffield Grace in 1827 read the letter as illustrative of that self-devotion which women often evince when called upon to act in the cause of their husbands or their children. It has been often...

CB 's religious anguish and self-tormenting led her to explore her own mind and spirit, and to describe them in writing. She wrote a fascinating sketch of her childhood, and a vivid, detailed account of...

The word VW created for the working title of her first novel—melymbrosia—brings together the Greek words for honey and ambrosia, and in so doing powerfully links this text to VW 's recent...