Gillian Kersley

SG now joined the Pioneer Club (founded by temperance campaigner Emily Caroline Langton Massingberd in 1892), which she called a club of women engaged in philanthropic pursuits, moral and religious. In May 1894, however...

Kersley comments that most of SG 's male characters personify varying degrees of vice. Their lack of proper self control and its possible outcome makes any really masculine character suspect, and leads her heroines to...

After this experience SG decided not to read reviews in the future: I have literally banished all newspaper cuttings about myself. She felt that this was the only to protect her writing ability, for, if...

In an interview in 1896, SG made clear her belief in the need for female suffrage: We shall do no good until we get the Franchise, for however well-intentioned men may be, they cannot understand...

Reviewers in the Independent and The Bookman disliked this novel. The Bookman called it vulgar, and worse than vulgar.Arnold Bennett , in Fame and Fiction: An Enquiry into Certain Popularities (1891), was equally...

As well as compiling quotations from Grand, Gladys Singers-Bigger composed a seven-volume record of sixteen years of SG 's life as Ideala's Gift: The Record of a Dear Friendship. This is essentially a...

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. Since...

After her husband's death SG moved from London to the area of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, and soon afterwards settled at the Grey House, in Langton, a couple of miles outside Tunbridge Wells...

SG first appeared in print with her novelTwo Dear Little Feet: a morality tale about the dangers posed to women's health by fashionable, too-tight boots.

Once she was successful, even notorious, for The Heavenly Twins, SG made her first foray into non-fiction with The Morals of Manner and Appearance in the Humanitarian, the first of her many articles...

Most critics, including SG 's biographer Gillian Kersley , read The Beth Book as fictionalized autobiography, but in a letter dated 4 December 1897, having seen her work announced as autobiographical, SG complained that this...

According to SG 's biographer Gillian Kersley , her storyThe Tenor and the Boy, originally published as an Interlude in her novelThe Heavenly Twins, 1893, appeared as a volume on its...