Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne.
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Friends, Associates | Camilla Crosland | In the years leading up to her marriage, Camilla Toulmin and Dinah Mulock Craik
were good friends (Craik was one of her bridesmaids); however, Craik's biographer Sally Mitchell
mentions Crosland only briefly. Newton Crosland
posits... |
Textual Production | Camilla Crosland | Her other work for periodicals includes a short story, A Railroad Adventure, published in 1843 in Ainsworth's Magazine, as well as pieces in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Bentley's Miscellany, the Illustrated London... |
Textual Features | Dinah Mulock Craik | The female narrator opens her story with an avowal of love for Josephine Scanlan that posits same-sex love as natural for women, and heterosexual love as rarely deserved by men: I have loved a man... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Dinah Mulock Craik | Dinah Mulock met several notable literary figures, such as the dramatists George
and Maria Lovell
, poet Eliza Leslie
, and Mr
and Mrs Samuel Carter Hall
. At parties given by Anna Maria Hall... |
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 | Dinah Mulock Craik | Her early novels, according to Sally Mitchell
, provide a sampling of the kinds of books that were, at the time, most popular with readers, which attests to her familiarity with the literary landscape of... |
Textual Features | Dinah Mulock Craik | Illness and disability in both women and men figure frequently in DMC
's fiction to mark a social and psychological distance between characters. Sally Mitchell
sees such representations as gender coding: Physical incapacity codifies the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dinah Mulock Craik | Sally Mitchell
compares The Head of the Family to the large-cast family story Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. 31 |
Textual Features | Dinah Mulock Craik | DMC
's story is an allegory to the extent that it spans the period 1795-1834, from the year after the Reign of Terror ended, at a high point in enclosure of common land, to just... |
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 | This original fairy tale features the Prince Dolor, who is crippled as an infant, deprived of his rule by a Prince Regent uncle, and brought up in miserable conditions. A fairy godmother gives him a... |
Literary responses | Dinah Mulock Craik | Sally Mitchell
characterizes it as embarrassing to read Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. 64 |
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... |
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