Gerson, Carole, and Agnes Maule Machar. “Introduction”. Roland Graeme, Knight, Tecumseh Press, p. vii - xxiv.
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death | Amy Levy | The following year the novelist Grant Allen
, an opponent of higher education for women, attributed her suicide directly to her time at university. Beckman considers many possible reasons—a broken love-affair, her lesbianism, her deafness... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Agnes Maule Machar | Grant Allen
, a prolific writer of naturalist fiction and non-fiction who was actively publishing at the same time as AMM
, was her brother-in-law. Gerson, Carole, and Agnes Maule Machar. “Introduction”. Roland Graeme, Knight, Tecumseh Press, p. vii - xxiv. viii |
Friends, Associates | Flora Thompson | Grayshott offered more extensive opportunities. As well as offering the usual library and penny readings, it was a centre for literary celebrities. During her work in the post-office FT
observed and caught snatches of the... |
Friends, Associates | Katherine Cecil Thurston | Through the New Vagabonds Club
, KCT
may have met several other prominent authors of the day, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
, Grant Allen
, Pearl Craigie
(who went by the pseudonym John Oliver... |
Intertextuality and Influence | George Egerton | Pleased with the book's success, Lane
introduced a fiction series named after it: Keynotes. Stetz, Margaret. “Keynotes: A New Woman, Her Publisher, and Her Material”. Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 30 , No. 1, pp. 89-107. 91 |
Literary responses | Kathleen Caffyn | Her contemporary Hugh Stutfield
grouped KC
together with Sarah Grand
and Grant Allen
as members of the purity school. Gail Cunningham notes that these authors were seen to valorize a feminine ideal and sphere... |
Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | Reviews were positive. Novelist Margaret Woods
felt that the archaic world it depicted was the root of Marcella's charm. Watters, Tamie, and Mary Augusta Ward. “Introduction”. Marcella, Virago, p. vii - xvi. xvi |
Literary responses | Victoria Cross | The Athenæum's review began by asserting that if The Woman Who Didn't was intended to provide a rejoinder to Grant Allen
's novel, then it had failed to do so. Moreover, it failed more... |
politics | Hannah Lynch | Barine lived as a New Woman in her independence and her intellectual productivity, but her style was self-consciously feminine, and she deplored the left-wing feminism of writers like Olive Schreiner
and George Egerton
, whom... |
Publishing | B. M. Croker | In 1894 stories by BMC
appeared in the Christmas numbers of London Society (along with others by John Strange Winter
and Alice Perrin
) and the Graphic (along with others by Grant Allen
and Robert Buchanan |
Publishing | Mary Angela Dickens | MAD
published her story The Catch of the Season in The Strand Magazine. The issue also features writing by Arthur Conan Doyle
and Grant Allen
. Dickens, Mary Angela. “The Catch of the Season”. The Strand Magazine, Vol. xiv , No. 79, pp. 66-72. 66-73 |
Reception | Ménie Muriel Dowie | MMD
's second publication after the wildly popular A Girl in the Karpathians was reasonably successful for a first novel, but its reception by the general reading public was perhaps not as enthusiastic as [the... |
Textual Features | Sophie Veitch | In Ethics and Art in Recent Novels, SV
again fits notice of nine novels into a review which also expounds her view of literary morality, along the same lines as her fiction. She begins... |
Textual Production | Evelyn Sharp | Lane accepted the novel in November 1894 for his series called after George Egerton
's Keynotes. John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press. 13 |
Textual Production | Victoria Cross | VC
's pseudonym was apparently a complicated private joke, implying both that Cross believed she deserved recognition for her valour in defying conventional mores (the Victoria Cross being the highest British military award for heroism)... |