The novel prompted a complimentary letter on 7 November 1849 from Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë
) saying that in it he tasted a new and keen pleasure, and experienced a genuine benefit. In his...
Publishing
Mary Angela Dickens
All the Year Round serialized several other of MAD
's novels. In A Valiant Ignorance, serialized between January and August 1893, she explores family dynamics, with a mother anxious about the consequences of her...
Reception
Ethel M. Arnold
In 1990, John Sutherland
called this a sensitive novel that nonetheless made no impression.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
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One hundred years after its first publication, during which time the novel remained in obscurity, Platonics was reprinted in the...
Textual Features
Mrs Alexander
The Freres was written during her long stay in Germany, where she was living for the sake of her children's education. Her friendly relations with many German families allowed her to write from the...
Textual Production
Mrs Alexander
She seems to have have chosen anonymity and secrecy because she began writing in the knowledge that her husband would disapprove. She wanted money to help her father out, also against her husband's wishes, and...
Textual Production
Ethel M. Arnold
Later in EA
's career, her famous sister was more helpful. Mary Augusta
tried to secure work for EA as a literary advisor for Nelson'sEdinburgh publisher and as a reviewer for Macmillan's Magazine...
Textual Production
Christabel Coleridge
After this CC
collaborated with Yonge and Bramston on three more titles which, according to literary historian John Sutherland
, were faddish at the end of the century: Astray, A Tale of a Country...
Textual Production
Mary Angela Dickens
MAD
published her fiction in stand-alone volumes as well as journals and magazines throughout her career. Assessing the quality of her work, John Sutherland
claims that her style showed the strong influence of Wilkie Collins
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Texts
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. “A Dangerously Liquid World”. London Review of Books, pp. 23-5.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. “Black Eccentricities”. London Review of Books, pp. 31-35.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. “Browse No More”. The Author, Vol.
121
, No. 1, pp. 24-5.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. “Flying the Coop”. London Review of Books, pp. 11-12.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. “Resentment”. London Review of Books, p. 22.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. “The Institutionalisation of the British Book Trade of the 1890s”. Development of English Book Trade: 1700-1899, edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris, Oxford Polytechnic Press, 1981.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Longman, 1988.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. “The new way”. Guardian Unlimited.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Victorian Novelists and Publishers. University of Chicago Press, 1976.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. “Was Ma Hump to blame?”. London Review of Books, pp. 32-5.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. “Wife Overboard”. London Review of Books, LRB, pp. 35-6.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. “Wolfish”. London Review of Books, pp. 28-9.