Sally Mitchell

Standard Name: Mitchell, Sally

Connections

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Anthologization	Vernon Lee	VL also published An Essay on Art and Life (1896), Limbo, and Other Essays (1897), and Hortus Vitae, Essays on the Gardening of Life (1903). Mannocchi, Phyllis. “’Vernon Lee’: A Reintroduction and Primary Bibliography”. English Literature in Transition, Vol. 26 , No. 4, pp. 231-67. 240-2 Art and Life, an attempt to synthesize or...
Anthologization	Vernon Lee	The title piece first appeared in the Contemporary Review in July 1898. It was reprinted in Andrea Broomfield 's and Sally Mitchell 's Prose by Victorian Women, 1996. Broomfield, Andrea, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Prose by Victorian Women. Garland. 711-29 The remarkable feminist essay entitled...
Family and Intimate relationships	Frances Power Cobbe	She seems never to have wished to attain the prescribed female roles of wife and mother—having noticed that several women she knew were liable to Bad-Husband Headaches—and biographer Sally Mitchell finds no evidence of...
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...
Friends, Associates	Clementina Black	During the 1880s CB studied privately at the library of the British Museum . At this time, Richard Garnett was the superintendent of the Reading Room. She became friends with him and his family, and...
Friends, Associates	Anna Kingsford	According to Cobbe's biographer Sally Mitchell , Kingsford asked Cobbe, after her return to London from Paris, to sponsor her for membership in the Somerville Club , the first woman's club, then recently founded. Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press. 285
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...
Health	Ellen Wood	In 1831 the curvature settled and ceased to give her pain. It left her, however, permanently weakened, and eventually contributed to her death through pressure on her vital organs. Sally Mitchell notes that as an...
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 written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton , or by Fredrika Bremer as recently translated by Mary Howitt .
Literary responses	Frances Power Cobbe	FPC 's importance to her contemporaries is most readily recalled today by the fact that Matthew Arnold thought her a worthy target of his corrective wisdom in The Function of Criticism at the Present Time...
Literary responses	Sarah Grand	Feminists, social reformers, and literary men, such as Mark Twain , George Meredith , and George Bernard Shaw , greeted this novel with excitement and appreciation. Mitchell, Sally, and Sarah Grand. “Introduction”. The Beth Book, Thoemmes, p. v - xxiv. vi SG wrote a caustic letter to the Daily...
Literary responses	Julia Kavanagh	This work's simplicity appealed to Geraldine Jewsbury , the reviewer for the Athenæum. She noted that it was a charming and touching story, wrought from the humblest and simplest of materials; but the interest...
Literary responses	Julia Kavanagh	In 1900 Mudie's Library stocked all of JK 's novels, but not until after the mid twentieth century did scholars cease to see her works chiefly as domestic, ladylike, and safe. Those who do mention...
Literary responses	Rhoda Broughton	Twentieth-century critics, like Sally Mitchell in The Fallen Angel, point to the novel's interrogation of gender roles. Mitchell argues that Not Wisely, but Too Wellwas shocking not because the heroine fell but because...
Literary responses	Bessie Rayner Parkes	Sally Mitchell , in her encyclopedia of Victorian Britain, praises BRP as providing an indispensable introduction to the activities, ideology, and atmosphere of the early years of the middle-class women's movement. Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press.

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Texts

Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983.

Zierer, Laurie. “Edith Jemima Simcox (1844-1901)”. Prose by Victorian Women, edited by Andrea Broomfield and Sally Mitchell, Garland, 1996, pp. 523-5.

Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.

Mitchell, Sally, and Sarah Grand. “Introduction”. The Beth Book, Thoemmes, 1994, p. v - xxiv.

Rigby, Elizabeth. “Modern Painters”. Prose By Victorian Women, edited by Andrea Broomfield and Sally Mitchell, Garland, 1996, pp. 82-136.

Rigby, Elizabeth. “Photography”. Prose by Victorian Women, edited by Andrea Broomfield and Sally Mitchell, Garland, 1996, pp. 138-65.

Broomfield, Andrea, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Prose by Victorian Women. Garland, 1996.

Cook, Bernard A. “Strikes”. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia, edited by Sally Mitchell, Garland Press, 1988, pp. 764-6.

Mitchell, Sally. The Fallen Angel: Chastity, Class and Women’s Reading 1835-1880. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1981.

Maunder, Andrew, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Varieties of Women’s Sensation Fiction, 1855-1880. Vol. 6 vols., Pickering and Chatto.

Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.

Garlick, Barbara. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Editor Mitchell, Sally, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1988, p. 837.

Simcox, Edith J. “Women’s Work and Women’s Wages”. Prose by Victorian Women, edited by Andrea Broomfield and Sally Mitchell, Garland, 1996, pp. 566-82.