Georgina Battiscombe

ML was a friend of a number of other women writers (besides her fellow Charlotte Yonge enthusiasts Elizabeth Jenkins , Georgina Battiscombe , and Lettice Cooper ), notably Margaret Kennedy (whom her husband published) and Betty Miller .

ML co-founded the Charlotte M. Yonge Society , along with friends and fellow writers and Yonge enthusiasts Elizabeth Jenkins , Georgina Battiscombe , and Lettice Cooper , among others.

Reviewing the Austen biography for the Times Literary Supplement, Georgina Battiscombe called it a scholarly and immensely readable account of Jane Austen's life, while also noting that despite Laski's efforts, Austen remained an elusive...

The Saturday Review pronounced this the most absorbing and original essay in autobiography to have come my way in the last two decades. In the TLS it was reviewed by...

The Daisy Chain's popularity was long-lasting, though not so intense as that of The Heir of Redclyffe. Jane Austen 's nephew James Austen-Leigh compared it to the work of Austen and Scott ...

During her lifetime, DG maintained a loyal and consistent following. William Michael Rossetti said of her that she produced some work both refined and of genuine feeling to which her appearance and manner corresponded.

CY was a staggeringly prolific author. Her more than two hundred works include domestic and historical novels for both adults and children, biographies, history and language textbooks, religious manuals, and a fragment of autobiography. She...

This was reprinted in 1965 and again with an introduction by Georgina Battiscombe in 1985.

A predominantly biographical approach to her poetry dominated until near the close of the twentieth century. Following Mackenzie Bell 's study (which stressed her religious aspect) and William 's brief selective memoir, biographies of CR

Felix Underwood, a clergyman's son, keeps his family together by working after their parents die. (His creator recorded her composition of his own death, in his maturity, as a gruelling morning's work.) His eldest...

Jointly with biographer and writer Georgina Battiscombe , ML edited and contributed to a volume of essays for the Charlotte M. Yonge Society : A Chaplet for Charlotte Yonge.

EMD contributed an introduction to Georgina Battiscombe 's biography Charlotte Mary Yonge : The Story of an Uneventful Life.