Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Yonge | It was praised in the Athenæum, and was the last book read by Lord Raglan
before his death in the Crimea the year after its publication. Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House. 1 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ellen Mary Clerke | The text opens with several Ballads of the Sea, Clerke, Ellen Mary. The Flying Dutchman, and Other Poems. W. Satchell. 1 |
Leisure and Society | Queen Victoria | Among her favourite writers were Alfred Tennyson
, Sir Walter Scott
, George Eliot
(whose The Mill on the Floss made a deep impression Victoria, Queen. Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals. Editor Hibbert, Christopher, Penguin. 116 |
Literary responses | Harriet Beecher Stowe | When HBS
later visited England she was a celebrity: crowds waited for her arrival on a Liverpool pier. Charles Kingsley
said in a letter to her that her novel caused him to re-evaluate his opinion... |
Literary responses | Georgiana Fullerton | The Athenæum published a positive review of Constance Sherwood on 16 September 1865, claiming that GFhas written a book which no one can read without deep interest; and she has written it in an... |
Literary responses | Louisa May Alcott | Among a chorus of praise from those who read LMA
when they were young, Edith Wharton
stands out as harder to please. In her memoir A Backward Glance, 1934, she recalls how her mother... |
Literary responses | Augusta Webster | The book could hardly have been written, said the Athenæum, unless Kingsley
's Water Babies and Lewis Carroll
's Alice in Wonderland had preceded it. It pronounced the book's much ado without nothing is... |
Literary responses | Annie Keary | The children of Charles Kingsley
(whose own The Heroes, re-telling Greek mythological stories, had appeared a year before The Heroes of Asgard), were particularly keen on the Keary Norse collection. Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan. 125 |
Literary responses | Georgiana Chatterton | Charles Kingsley
, to whom she sent a copy of her Richter volume, wrote: I find gems wherever I open it. “The Ferrers of Baddesley Clinton”. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. |
Literary Setting | Geraldine Jewsbury | During her marriage, Zoe becomes acquainted with a Catholic priest named Everhard Borrows who doubts his faith. They fall in love, and Everhard feels compelled to leave the priesthood for Zoe. One of the novel's... |
politics | William Morris | WM
was first introduced to reformist politics by his Oxford friends. He read Charles Kingsley
, Thomas Carlyle
, and John Ruskin
(a particularly influential discovery). Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | Mary Kingsley | MK
approached George Macmillan
, her uncle Charles
's publisher, with the manuscript The Bights of Benin. Frank, Katherine. A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley. Houghton Mifflin. 91 |
Reception | Lucy Walford | After the publication of Recollections of a Scottish NovelistLW
decided that there were still stories in her mind that rank among the great days of my life, yet which did not fit in with... |
Reception | Mary Augusta Ward | |
Reception | E. Nesbit | EN
's books for children brought her extensive fan-mail from readers. She was conscientious about answering them, often in long letters discussing some moral problem such as the attempt to control one's temper. Some of... |
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