Matthew Arnold

FPC 's importance to her contemporaries is most readily recalled today by the fact that Matthew Arnold thought her a worthy target of his corrective wisdom in The Function of Criticism at the Present Time...

The novel was a massive success, in the words of Henry Jamesa momentous public event. Critic John Sutherland deems it the best-selling work of quality fiction in the nineteenth century. By the summer...

Frances Power Cobbe thought this book capital and reported herself delighted by the sense, and the fun! Your quick bits of sarcasm are impayable [sic].Matthew Arnold pronounced it very pleasantly written, as well...

For generations PBS appeared the quintessential image of the Romantic poet, whose work influenced such poets as Mathilde Blind , Amy Levy , Alice Meynell , Sarojini Naidu —though for some of them he was...

This work received an ambivalent response from The Spectator reviewer, who called it in effect an attempt, ingenious and not unskillful, but very much the reverse of convincing, to prove that the world would go...

EG called this work simply a little country love story, although it climaxes with a fire and a shipwreck. Charlotte Brontë liked it, and Mary Forster recorded her brother Matthew Arnold 's enjoyment of...

The Edinburgh Review praised her for displaying a co-existence of the synthetic and analytic modes of looking at things, the general want of which is the great defect of most modern poetry.The reviewer...

The article made a deep impression on the young Matthew Arnold when it was read aloud to the family by their father, Thomas .

MAW planned her next novel as a much weightier study of the intellectual impact of historical thought on conventional faith; it was deeply influenced by the intellectual milieu of Oxford and the histories of her...

The novel features Robert Elsmere's gradual loss of his orthodox Christian faith, and the tension which this causes between the emerging sceptic and his wife, Catherine Leyburn (based on MAW 's friend Laura Lyttleton )...

The heroine is described as deriving from a long line of English gentry, Whig supporters of the Empire: a tedious race perhaps and pig-headed, tyrannical too here and there, but on the whole honourable English...

The paper points out the failings of middle-class schools for girls, while quoting with approval Matthew Arnold 's views about the necessity of education for class and national stability. In her conclusion, ED insists that...

In Culture and Anarchy (titled after the famous essay collection by Matthew Arnold , 1869 ), Rich mixes her own poetry with the words of nineteenth-century Anglo-American women writers Jane Addams , Susan B. Anthony

Despite the slightness of her oeuvre and Wuthering Heights's initial lack of popularity, EB emerged early as a major influence on other writers. Matthew Arnold paid early tribute by comparing her to Byron in...

MG was six when her five-page, semi-illegible saga on the life of an Indian woman teapicker won third prize in the Typhoo Tea Handwriting Competition (which despite its name must, she says, have disregarded writing...