Sally Mitchell

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...

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...

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. In...

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...

This conclusion is a new one, which RB produced in significantly revising the serialised version of Not Wisely for volume publication. In the last volume Dare Stamer is injured on his way to a ball...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...