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|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | George Sand | The novel met with high praise from Balzac
, and a critic at the Revue des Deux Mondes thought it better than anything by Germaine de Staël
. These two knew the author's gender, but... |
| Literary responses | Ouida | The Athenæum criticized this novel for mock eloquence Athenæum. J. Lection. 2016 (16 June 1866): 797 Athenæum. J. Lection. 2016 (16 June 1866): 798 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Yonge | During her lifetime CY
was ranked as a serious novelist with Austen
, Trollope
, Balzac
, and Zola
. Contemporaries like Louisa Alcott
, Margaret Oliphant
, Ellen Wood
, and Rhoda Broughton
made... |
| Literary responses | Ellen Wood | Charles Wood points this out: such a review was rare, and it directed the whole English-speaking world to the work fortunate enough to gain its notice. Wood, C. W. Memorials of Mrs. Henry Wood. Third, R. Bentley and Son, 1895. 245 |
| politics | George Sand | The meeting of Aurore Dudevant (later GS
) with Sandeau coincided with the end of the Three Glorious Days when Charles X
abdicated, leaving the throne for his nephew Louis Philippe of Orléans
. In... |
| Reception | Sappho | This drew on a female type established in the bohemian fiction of Honoré de Balzac
, Eugène Sue
, and others. Daudet's novel was the source of a play by |
| Textual Features | Dorothy Richardson | In addition to her chosen themes, DR
also charts the development of female consciousness through her literary techniques, which strongly disrupt gender, generic, and linguistic conventions. In her 1938 foreword to Pilgrimage, she recalls... |
| Textual Features | Margaret Forster | The novel, entitled Green Dusk for Dreams, drew on her own experience as an au pair girl in Bordeaux. At different times she called it Dickens
ian “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 271 |
| Textual Features | Storm Jameson | Inspired by Balzac
, Jameson planned several novels that would form a contemporary family and political saga. It would be centred mainly on (Mary) Hervey Russell, who, she once wrote, is and is not myself... |
| Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | During the same year she worked on translating Balzac
for young English readers, a scheme suggested to her by her discussions with Elizabeth Barrett Browning
about French fiction. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 116: 196 |
| Textual Production | Matilda Betham-Edwards | During the final decade of the century MBE
remained as productive as ever. She published two novels in 1891 (A North-Country Comedy and A Romance of the Wine), besides a volume of stories,... |
| Textual Production | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Brontë | CB
's comments on Jane Austen
, whom she first read at this time, reflect her own literary priorities: She does her business of delineating the surface of the lives of genteel English people curiously... |
| Textual Production | A. S. Byatt | ASB
continued her interest in Ovid
with Arachne, a literary essay, in Ovid Metamorphosed, edited by Philip Terry
in early 2000. Byatt, A. S. “Arachne”. Ovid Metamorphosed, edited by Philip Terry, Chatto and Windus, 2000, pp. 131-57. 131 |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich
through Jane Austen
, Emily
and Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot |
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