Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co.
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William Ewart Gladstone
Standard Name: Gladstone, William Ewart
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| Literary responses | Anna Swanwick | Her work was greeted with a chorus of praise from reviewers: the only quibble, from some, referred to her metrical choices. P. H. Wicksteed
in the Saturday Review suggested that AS
would advance the cause... |
| Literary responses | Edna Lyall | The Morning Post gave the book a good review, Corrick, Georgia. “’You will Blame Me . But . It Seemed to me Simply a Thing that Had to be Done’: Women’s Transgressions and Moral Choices in Edna Lyall’s Novels”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 14 , No. 3, pp. 476-95. 477 and n1 |
| Literary responses | Constance Naden | Despite some good reviews, CN
's two volumes of poems had made comparatively little impact until Gladstone
drew new attention to them in the Speaker while writing on current poetry. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Literary responses | Georgiana Fullerton | GF
's mother, Lady Granville
, is said to have regretted that Ellen Middleton was quite so mournful. But contemporary reviewers were generally positive, and the novel proved popular. William Ewart Gladstone
, reviewing it... |
| Literary responses | Edna Lyall | EL
reported that Unionists
in Tipperary were angered by the sympathetic portrayal of characters whom they regarded as seditious or traitorous, Corrick, Georgia. “’You will Blame Me . But . It Seemed to me Simply a Thing that Had to be Done’: Women’s Transgressions and Moral Choices in Edna Lyall’s Novels”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 14 , No. 3, pp. 476-95. 479 |
| Literary responses | Mathilde Blind | MB
's rendering contributed to making the journal a sensation in England, and a major influence on a generation and more of English journal writers, including Katherine Mansfield
. It is, indirectly, the inspiration for... |
| Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | Former Prime-Minister and MP William Gladstone
's attack on MAW
's heterodoxy, 'Robert Elsmere' and the Battle of Belief, appeared in the Nineteenth Century. Gladstone, William Ewart. "Robert Elsmere" and the Battle of Belief. Peter Paul and Brother. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 412 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Rigby | The preface notes that the work was ready for publication in the Spring, but delayed by the publisher
's wish, on account of the agitated state of the political atmosphere. Rigby, Elizabeth. Mrs. Grote. John Murray. vi This presumably refers to... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | A. S. Byatt | She finished writing this book in St Deiniol's Library
near Hawarden Castle, repository of the collection of William Ewart Gladstone
, and included in her novel all the flower names in a Victorian book... |
| Occupation | Marie Corelli | From 1886, when she published her first novel, A Romance of Two Worlds, onward, MC
produced books at great speed. She was an instant success, and throughout her life she sold approximately 100,000 books... |
| politics | Mary Augusta Ward | While the motivation for her trip was to obtain a loan from her relatives, the visit had long-term political consequences for MAW
: first-hand experience of Irish political and social turmoil influenced her political views... |
| politics | F. Mabel Robinson | FMR
became deeply interested in political debates and struggles around the issue of home rule for Ireland, and went so far as to carry secret messages back and forth between England and Ireland. This... |
| politics | May Laffan | ML
had strong political views, and she frequently addressed political subjects in her novels. She was critical of English governance, and presented the misery and poverty of Irish peasants as worse than that of their... |
| politics | Emily Shirreff | Founded in February 1875 by Beata Doreck
(who died in 1875 shortly after assuming the presidency of the new organization), Maria Grey
, and ES
, the Froebel Society promoted the kindergarten system advocated by... |
| politics | Henrietta Müller | Having become a householder (at 58 Cadogan Place in south-west London) for the first time the year before, Pall Mall Gazette. J. K. Sharpe. 5932 (11 March 1884): 2 |
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