Ward, Mary Augusta. “Introduction”. Robert Elsmere, edited by Rosemary Ashton, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xviii.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | The novel was a massive success, in the words of Henry Jamesa momentous public event. Ward, Mary Augusta. “Introduction”. Robert Elsmere, edited by Rosemary Ashton, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xviii. vii |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Augusta Ward | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Augusta Ward | Highly conscious of this legacy, and of her position as the niece of poet and essayist Matthew Arnold
, MAW
saw herself as working in the Arnoldian family tradition of earnest, conscientious, socially responsible political... |
Education | Dorothy Wellesley | |
Textual Production | Patricia Wentworth | PW
published The Fire Within, another novel (or romance), whose title is a quotation from Matthew Arnold
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | VW
's father, Sir Leslie Stephen
(1832-1904), was a Victorian philosopher and historian of ideas . . . literary historian and critic, and—perhaps most important—a biographer. Rosenbaum, S. P. “An Educated Man’s Daughter: Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group”. Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, edited by Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Vision; Barnes and Noble, pp. 32-56. 36 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | He was immensely influential. As editor of the Cornhill Magazine from 1871 to 1882, he published Henry James
, Thomas Hardy
, Matthew Arnold
, Robert Browning
, and George Meredith
, among others. Rosenbaum, S. P. “An Educated Man’s Daughter: Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group”. Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, edited by Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Vision; Barnes and Noble, pp. 32-56. 34 |
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