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Literary responses | Dinah Mulock Craik | Sally Mitchell
characterizes it as embarrassing to read Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. 64 |
Literary responses | Edith J. Simcox | As noted by Laurie Zierer
in Broomfield
and Mitchell
's anthology of Victorian women writers, EJS
's connection with George Eliot
has saved her from permanent obscurity, [but] her stature as a Victorian writer and... |
Literary responses | Frances Power Cobbe | Of a much later work, The Friend of Man; and His Friends,—the Poets, 1889, produced on the heels of much anti-vivisection writing, scholar Sally Mitchell
comments that FPCtried to accomplish for dogs what... |
Literary responses | Frances Power Cobbe | Biographer Sally Mitchell
describes the essay on Lowe as a virulent and often sarcastic attack on the medical profession for meddling with legislation. She notes that it begins the obsessively picky argumentation that makes the... |
Literary responses | Dinah Mulock Craik | Sally Mitchell
judges this novel to be largely conventional and undistinguished, remarkable only for the representations of drunkenness and wife abuse, and because, near the end, the model wife says that it is necessary under... |
Literary responses | Frances Power Cobbe | This provoked a reply from FPC
's former ally William Carpenter
, who identified her as the author and criticised her pronouncements on science as uninformed, implying that her judgement was not being led by... |
Literary responses | Frances Power Cobbe | According to Sally Mitchell
, FPC
herself recognized that her writing had lost its wit and charm Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press. 330 |
Other Life Event | Frances Power Cobbe | Biographer Sally Mitchell
attributes the event to tensions between her and the local Welsh people among whom she had settled. FPC
spent that winter at Clifton, near Bristol. Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press. 362-3 |
Publishing | Sarah Grand | She started writing this novel in 1895 and finished it by September 1897. Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 2. Editor Forward, Stephanie, Routledge. 46, 59-60 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Reception | Frances Power Cobbe | Mitchell
's Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer, 2004, is a superbly detailed source on FPC
's life and on Victorian feminism generally. Interest is slowly growing in her role and that of... |
Reception | Maria Grey | Victorian scholar Sally Mitchell
suggests that the existing national secondary education system available to young women owes much of its development to MG
's selfless work. Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press. |
Reception | Dinah Mulock Craik | The book was immediately successful in England and the United States. Kaplan, Cora, and Dinah Mulock Craik. “Introduction”. Olive; and, The Half-Caste, Oxford University Press, p. ix - xxv. xi |
Textual Features | Dinah Mulock Craik | These writings, argues critic Sally Mitchell
, were essentially in the sentimental mode, which sought to educate by promoting habits of good feeling rather than by presenting either rational arguments or deserved punishments. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. 79-80 |
Textual Features | Dinah Mulock Craik | Many of the traits which DMC
promoted both in her girls' and her boys' fiction merge into a single-sex ideal, argues Mitchell
, who sees all of this work as guiding young readers towards an... |
Textual Features | Julia Kavanagh | It features a male protagonist, but critic Sally Mitchell
notes that even here Kavanagh pursues her favorite topic of a lively girl eventually loved by a man who once viewed her as a child. Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press. |
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