Mark Twain

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...

MB dedicated The Glen o' Weeping, her third historical novel, to Mark Twain , in gratitude for his support of her first book, The Viper of Milan.

Critically, the book was very well received. Edward Wagenknecht in the New York Times Book Review enthused over MB 's settings, calling her a genius in the creation of atmosphere, and stated that...

MB was admired in her own day by others who prided themselves on the popular touch in their writing: Mark Twain , Walter de la Mare , Compton Mackenzie , and Hugh Walpole , who...

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...

Jean Pfaelzer has admired its world of complex moral choices. As an ambitious but weak man who is easily tempted by social pressures,Pfaelzer argues that Andross prefigures characters such as William Dean Howells

In the USAEG met Mark Twain , whom she thought the wittiest creature imaginable.

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...

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...

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...

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...