Oliver Wendell Holmes

FHB 's remark about her hero while he was still in process of composition—that I should not be surprised if he were very popular—turned out to be an extreme understatement. Fauntleroy was, says...

This novel has aroused recent critical discussion. Robert T. Eldridge discussed it in The New York Review of Science Fiction in February 1998 under the title The Other Vampire Novel of 1897, and Brenda Mann Hammack

Again she received her fan letters. Max Müller (a friend) and Oliver Wendell Holmes both read this book with delight, and a son of Tennyson reported that the Poet Laureate had left it open where...

According to scholars, the first edition of this collection is extremely rare. The second and much expanded edition, published in 1888, tells us that the first edition perished, together with several other of her works...

HBS spent some years writing journalism and children's stories after the publication of Agnes of Sorrento. Then, after settling in a winter home in Florida, she resumed a romance she had begun some...

During her tenure she encountered the very best and worst of late Victorian poetry. Her published reviews, which critic Marysa Demoor characterises as expressing a hesitant modernism, included appraisals of Robert Bridges ,...

After leading a busy social life in Ottawa and Toronto, they travelled via Niagara Falls to New York. They wintered in San Francisco, where IDH gathered material for novels. Among other distinguished...

During the few years following her husband's death, MADH travelled twice to the United States and once to Canada with her daughter Iza . The two women landed first in Canada in the latter part...