Critic Stephanie Forward
has pointed out that at this date the colour yellow signified avant-garde and slightly dangerous fashion, as had been recognised in such literary works as Mona Caird
's The Yellow Drawing-Room and...
Literary responses
Mona Caird
It is for the essay Marriage, says Stephanie Forward
, that MC
is chiefly remembered today. Forward calls it well structured, intelligently reasoned and thought-provoking.
Forward, Stephanie. “A Study in Yellow: Mona Caird’s ’The Yellow Drawing-Room’”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 2, pp. 295-07.
295
Textual Production
Mona Caird
The anonymous novel Lady Hetty, A Story of Scottish and Australian Life, is attributed to MC
by the British Library Catalogue and by critic Patricia Murphy
, but seems to be actually by John Service
Education
Mona Caird
Whatever her childhood education, a friend after her death commented on her keen intellect and her (presumably adult) studies in science, sociology, history, and philosophy. To this list critic Stephanie Forward
adds ethnology and economics.
Forward, Stephanie. “A Study in Yellow: Mona Caird’s ’The Yellow Drawing-Room’”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 2, pp. 295-07.
298
politics
Mona Caird
MC
stepped into the public eye in the 1880s as a radical member of the women's movement, a supporter of all kinds of linked causes. An article in the Review of Reviews in 1893 equated...
Anthologization
Ménie Muriel Dowie
These stories include The Hint o' Hairst (serialized in Chambers's Journal from 4 to 18 February 1893), Wladislaw's Advent (The Yellow Book, January 1895), and An Idyll in Millinery (The Yellow Book...
Textual Features
Ménie Muriel Dowie
The imprisonment of the count in contrast to the freedom of the girl suggests to critic Stephanie Forward
that MMD
is writing here, from an unusual angle, against the restricting bonds of patriarchy. It is...
Reception
Sarah Grand
Elaine Showalter
brought SG
to the attention of late-twentieth-century New Woman and feminist criticism in A Literature of Their Own, 1977, where she discussed The Heavenly Twins and The Beth Book.
Mangum, Teresa. Married, Middlebrow, and Militant: Sarah Grand and the New Woman Novel. University of Michigan Press.
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Since...
Anthologization
Beatrice Harraden
The stories had first appeared in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
This US edition was reprinted by the Books for Libraries Press
in 1970. The volume was highly popular, for a fourteenth edition appeared in 1906...
Timeline
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Texts
Forward, Stephanie. “A Study in Yellow: Mona Caird’s ’The Yellow Drawing-Room’”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 2, pp. 295-07.
Forward, Stephanie, editor. Dreams, Visions and Realities. The University of Birmingham University Press, 2003.
Grand, Sarah. “Introduction; Chronology”. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 2, edited by Stephanie Forward, Routledge, 2000, pp. 1 - 12; 13.
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 2. Editor Forward, Stephanie, Routledge, 2000.