George Gissing

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...

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...

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. ....

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.

Her friend and cousin Beatrice Webb called MH 's early life as a journalist real intellectual drudgery, and critic John Goode observes that her life in the early 1880s seems to have been...

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...

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)

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. An ecstatic state is one in which...

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...