With her sister, CS
began her education at home with her mother as teacher. She read Shakespeare
at four years old, and later learned the violin. She and Ida were concert-goers from an early age...
Friends, Associates
Maria Theresa Longworth
During her time in America, MTL
became friends with writer Bret Harte
and conservationist John Muir
.
Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press, 2003.
165
Among Muir's biographers, Frederick Turner argues that Longworth was in love with Muir, on the grounds that...
Intertextuality and Influence
George Douglas
The three title-pages of this novel bear lines of poetry on their versoes: from, respectively, Bret Harte
, Whyte Melville
, and Longfellow
. Its tone (except perhaps in the denouement) is quite unlike the...
Literary responses
Victoria Cross
Reviews of A Girl of the Klondike were generally dismissive. The Academy and Literature concluded that the novel contains plenty of climate, gold, dust, and gore,
qtd. in
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
197
while Literaturesuggested that VC
had moved from...
Literary responses
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Lydia Maria Child
shared the popular opinion in finding this book tedious. Bret Harte
described it as more provincial than its characters.
Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994.
344, 346, 347
Textual Production
Kate Greenaway
Throughout the 1880s KG
illustrated many little books by well-known authors. In 1883 she provided illustrations for Little Ann and Other Poems, a collection by the early nineteenth-century children's writers Ann (later Gilbert)
and...
Textual Production
Maria Theresa Longworth
From 1869 MTL
began contributing occasionally to several periodicals. She began by submitting a poem to Bret Harte
's Overland Monthly, and four years later contributed a short story, Tale of a Tooth...