Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne.
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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... |
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... |
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... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Rigby | Scholars Mitchell
and Broomfield
observe that like Kant
before her and Oscar Wilde
after, Eastlake sought to define a realm of human experience to and for which only art could speak, whereas Ruskin believed that... |
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 Production | Anna Kingsford | While compaigning for suffrage, AK
owned and edited The Lady's Own Paper for a period of about three months, using her married name, Mrs Algernon Kingsford. Sources disagree about the length of her editorship (as... |
Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | In 1849 FPC
produced a lengthy manuscript titled An Essay on True Religion Being a reply to the question Why are you a Deist? Critic Sally Mitchell
compares it to a competent doctoral thesis. Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press. 73 |
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... |
Travel | Frances Power Cobbe | A week after her father's funeral, FPC
cut her hair to enable herself to travel without a maid. By December she was in London, where she applied for a passport. Her biographer Sally Mitchell
attributes... |
Travel | Frances Power Cobbe | When FPC
descended into the Great Pyramid at Giza as the sole European attended by five guides, they demanded more money than had been agreed. Instead of complying, she angrily ordered them to escort her... |
Wealth and Poverty | Ellen Wood | At some point in the early 1850s, some unspecified event prompted Henry Wood
to withdraw from business. It may be that he lost his job, or went bankrupt: it sounds as if the family were... |
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