Victor Hugo

AB and William Stead founded The Link magazine, which first appeared on 4 February 1888; each weekly issue sold for a halfpenny. The front page quoted Victor Hugo : I will speak for the dumb...

MBE set a great deal of store by meeting men distinguished as authors or in other fields, as a spur to literary achievement of her own. She was given to boasting of her acquaintance with...

MB early learned to read for herself (with some help from Reading Without Tears, a mid-Victorian textbook by Favell Lee Bevan, later Mrs Mortimer ) because her parents were often too busy to satisfy...

Waters argues that MEB ought not to be condemned for clichés that she herself helped to establish. Rather we should examine them and the genre of the detective or sensation novel as an index of...

Ishmael is set in Brittany and Paris, mainly between 1850 and 1867, during the reign of Louis Napoleon . The title character is the son of a Breton aristocrat, despised by his father on...

In this text the titular heroine narrates her experiences at the French boarding school Les Avons. Here, Olivia forms friendships with several other schoolgirls, but is most fascinated by her headmistress, Mlle Julie, who runs...

Some of their strongest support came from outside England. A letter from Victor Hugo dated 20 March 1870 contained his declaration of support: I am with you, madame and ladies. I am with you to...

Dramatic Works of Victor Hugo appeared with CC and Frederick L. Slous listed as translators.

Since then CC 's reputation has all but disappeared. Her works are not included in any major anthologies and she is rarely studied. Only her translations of Hugo seem to have lasted. Yet as McCormack...

TD and Aru were briefly enrolled at a boarding school in Nice where they studied French. After moving to England they continued their studies and attended the Higher Lectures for Women series begun by Henry Sidgwick

TD opens A Sheaf with a quotation from Schiller and a dedication to her mother . The translated poems (nearly all of which have accompanying critical notes) come from a range of French authors including...

One of the poems MG had to learn for recitation was Meddlesome Matty by Ann Taylor (later Gilbert) . (MG thought it was by the other sister, and later regretted that she never...

Pearl Richards (later JOH ) read widely as a child and adolescent, and her parents' liberal views (and considerable fortune) meant that she could pursue her tastes in both the lending libraries and the less...

FK fell in love for the first time, with fellow actor Augustus Craven when they appeared together in Victor Hugo 's Hernani, but the relationship ended in heartbreak for her.

AK 's active campaign against vivisection and in support of vegetarianism began as early as 1872, when she published a letter by Frances Power Cobbe in The Lady's Own Paper. By 1878, while...