Mark Twain

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...

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...

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.

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

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 .

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...