Mark Twain

This contains her thoughts on Mark Twain , Tolstoy , J. R. R. Tolkien (Rhythmic Pattern in The Lord of the Rings) and Ishi the tribal native American whom her father studied and...

Playing in the Dark shows a striking continuity with the thinking that underlies her novels. She sets out here to revise the teaching of US literature. She investigates the way that race functions as a...

Though HBS was internationally recognized for her written works she was not, unlike many other contemporary literary figures, a frequent lecturer. While Dickens , Samuel Clemens (who published as Mark Twain), Julia Ward Howe ...

Other books in the series included Stephen Leacock on Mark Twain and Sacheverell Sitwell on Mozart .

ES compiled and edited The Mark Twain Birthday Book, which provided quotations for every day of the year; she also designed the book herself.

HBS bought a house on Forest Street in Hartford, Connecticut, where she spent the rest of her life; Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) soon built a house next door.

Notwithstanding such social conservativism and her adherence to established religious institutions, CFA was progressive in her determination to think beyond the bounds of particular (and mutually antagonistic) Christian sects. Her work enjoyed very broad acceptance...

There were, however, negative elements to the book's initial reception. FHB was accused of plagiarism: either from Mark Twain , or A. T. Winthrop (female author of Wilfred. A Story with a Happy Ending...

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...

SG left on a lecturing tour in the USA, travelling with theatre people Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry , as well as lecture-tour manager Major James Burton Pond .

SG 's tour lasted four months, during which time she lectured at the women's institutions of higher education Barnard College in New York and Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, as well as in San...

EG 's close friend Lady Warwick , when shown the finished manuscript of this book, warned EG not to publish it, or she would tarnish or ruin her reputation. Indeed, the novel did...

Feminists, social reformers, and literary men, such as Mark Twain , George Meredith , and George Bernard Shaw , greeted this novel with excitement and appreciation. SG wrote a caustic letter to the Daily...

The collection was widely admired when it first appeared in print. Yeats praised it in his preface as the best book that has come out of Ireland in my time and used it as...

Willa Cather , in her preface to a collection of SOJ 's Best Stories (1925), reflected a common critical perception in suggesting that Jewett would go down in literary history as a regional writer: the...