Victor Hugo

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...

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...

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...

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 ,...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...