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learned to read fairly late, but then read voraciously. The glowing Eastern landscapes and brilliant figures
qtd. in
Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury, 1998.
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of Disraeli
's Alroy and Thomas Moore
's Lalla Rookh made a particular impression. She also developed...
Intertextuality and Influence
Charlotte Brontë
Its influence is evident in numerous nineteenth-century novels, including in Britain Julia Kavanagh
's Nathalie (1850)—which may in turn have influenced Villette—as well as the later The House on the Marsh (1882) by Florence Warden
Timeline
1859: Augusta Jane Evans published Beulah, a popular...
Writing climate item
1859
Augusta Jane Evans
published Beulah, a popular domestic novel or bildungsroman about an orphaned young woman in the southern USA.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
1866: American Augusta Jane Evans Wilson published...
Writing climate item
1866
American Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
published St Elmo, one of the most succesful novels of the nineteenth century.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
