Victor Hugo

An abridged version of this novel was included in an odd collection: Tales of My Landlady, compiled by William Thomas Haley and published in 1843-4. Also included were versions of Frances Sheridan 's The...

FT 's political conservatism affected her judgements of literature as well as politics. She forcefully expresses her dislike for republicanism, denounces freedom of the press as the most awful engine that Providence has permitted the...

AS anonymously issued the authorised English translation of Victor Hugo 's novel L'homme qui rit, under the English title By Order of the King.

During frequent trips to Paris, GS made the acquaintance of admirers who included Gustave Flaubert . She enjoyed a correspondence with Victor Hugo , though the two never met. She continued to...

In her preface she claims the ballad and other popular poetic forms as the especial territory of women writers. Although her poems, says this preface, lack the splendour of Byron or Hugo , or the...

The Athenæum (again in the person of Henry Chorley , again reviewing ER as a male author), said she was still improving. Despite the difficulties posed by handling such well-known material, in this novel the...

JP had begun writing some years before this first publication. During the 1930s she produced nine long novels, in which she tried to emulate her literary heroes (theBrontësEmily Brontë , George Eliot ,...

Not only had the occupying troops burned the furniture and staircases, defaced the pictures or shot them full of holes: out of the dungheaps covering the gardens were retrieved letters or scraps of letters from...

Charles the First was received well by the Athenæum, which indicated that the performance provided genuine satisfaction to a very attentive audience and gratification in its most agreeable shape to the gifted lady,

At a very early age Emma Martin could recite See'st thou my home is where yon woods are waving by Felicia Hemans . After leaving school she continued to study music with Dr Zacariah or Zechariah Buck

MBL 's paternal, French grandmother, Louise Swanton Belloc , was a children's writer, a translator, intimate friend of Stendhal and Victor Hugo , and the author of a life of Byron (for which Stendhal supplied...

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...

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.

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...

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...