Sypher, Eileen. “The Novels of Margaret Harkness”. Turn-of-the-Century Women, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 1984, pp. 12-26. 16
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Family and Intimate relationships | Marjorie Bowen | MB
's mother, Josephine Elisabeth (Ellis) Campbell
(daughter of Rev. Charles Bowen Ellis
), was an aspiring writer. Her father was a Moravian clergyman and her mother came from a wealthy ship-building family. However, she... |
Intertextuality and Influence | George Paston | Though this novel shares some terrain with Gissing
's New Grub Street, critic Margaret Stetz
finds that the two have little in common, since they take aim at very different aspects of the contemporary... |
Literary responses | Margaret Harkness | Critic Eileen Sypher
praises this novel's panorama of deteriorating social conditions . . . which surpasses Gissing
's The Nether World (1889) in the starkness and authenticity with which it represents East End life. Sypher, Eileen. “The Novels of Margaret Harkness”. Turn-of-the-Century Women, Vol. 1 , No. 2, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 1984, pp. 12-26. 16 |
Literary responses | May Sinclair | George Gissing
, after reading the presentation copy she sent him, wrote: Had you not told me it was your first novel, I should have thought it came from a hand already practised. .... |
Occupation | Margaret Harkness | Her friend and cousin Beatrice Webb
called MH
's early life as a journalist real intellectual drudgery qtd. in Goode, John. “Margaret Harkness and the Socialist Novel”. The Socialist Novel in Britain: Towards the Recovery of a Tradition, edited by H. Gustav Klaus, Harvester Press, 1982, pp. 45-66. 49 |
Author summary | Margaret Harkness | MH
wrote late Victorian novels, mostly set in the East End slums of London, that express her political ideas. She was an ardent socialist in the 1880s and 1890s and was also a journalist... |
Textual Production | Sarah Grand | An entire literary-social movement evolved alongside SG
's writings about the New Woman. New Woman fiction, amounting to a new genre, had already been produced by George Egerton
in 1893, and was produced by Iota (Kathleen Caffyn) |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marghanita Laski | ML
defines ecstasy as experiences that are joyful, transitory, unexpected, rare, valued, and extraordinary to the point of often seeming as if derived from a praeternatural source. Laski, Marghanita. Ecstasy: A Study of Some Secular and Religious Experiences. Cresset Press, 1961. 5 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Q. D. Leavis | Here and elsewhere she published on a wide range of authors and literary topics, including Trollope
, Hardy
, Gissing
, Forster
, Orwell
, and Aldous Huxley
; the Anglo-Irish, American, French, Italian, and... |
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