Mitchell, Sally, and Sarah Grand. “Introduction”. The Beth Book, Thoemmes, p. v - xxiv.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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 |
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. |
Literary responses | Dinah Mulock Craik | Sally Mitchell
characterizes it as embarrassing to read Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. 64 |
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 | 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... |
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... |
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