Sally Mitchell

Standard Name: Mitchell, Sally

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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
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.
Literary responses Dinah Mulock Craik
Sally Mitchell characterizes it as embarrassing to read
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne.
64
owing to its sentimentality, but argues that the idealized portrait of a crippled man whose noble life it delineates makes physical disability a powerful figure for...
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
Elaine Showalter wrote the introduction to Virago 's 1980 edition, and Sally Mitchell wrote that of Thoemmes , 1994.
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
Sally Mitchell remarks that it produced a huge expansion in the audience for fiction: The book helped to overcome the resistance to fiction...
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
In...
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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