Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sheila Kaye-Smith | Here she relates significant moments in her life to what she was reading at the time. She says that her reading, directed at first by chance and the choices of others, later moved towards what... |
Textual Production | Elspeth Huxley | EH
thought a perfect precept for biography was voiced by Shakespeare
's Othello: nothing extenuate, nor set down ought in malice. Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins. 427 |
Textual Production | Rosa Nouchette Carey | The title of RNC
's novel "But Men Must Work", issued this year, refers (like other titles of hers) to gender roles: it is from Charles Kingsley
's The Three Fishers: For men... |
Textual Production | John Henry Newman | It originated as a reply to Charles Kingsley
's charge that Newman did not hold truth to be an essential virtue. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. |
Textual Production | Lucas Malet | Lucas Malet
issued (besides her novel Damaris, about an English child growing up in India) The Tutor's Story, her revision of a book which her father
had drafted during the early 1860s... |
Textual Features | Anne Mozley | The review of Adam Bede is indeed most perceptive as well as detailed. AM
begins by noticing how novels have been expanding their empire: how many have been added to their readership by the newer... |
Textual Features | Agnes Maule Machar | |
Textual Features | Mary Angela Dickens | MAD
delves into Malet's thoughts on gender and her familial relationships, beginning with Malet's quarrel with Fate because it turned her out a woman and not a man and similarly jumbled things up altogether in... |
Residence | Frances Mary Peard | The 1881 census lists them in Tormoham (a part of Torquay): FMP
's mother was listed as the householder, and Frances Mary was listed as without occupation. “FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
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... |
Reception | Fanny Aikin Kortright | Geraldine Jewsbury
's review in the Athenæum was merciless (although she guessed the gender of the author). She called the novel an eminently vulgar book, written apparently with great ease and satisfaction to herself. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1647 (1859): 675 |
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 |
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/. |