Nina Auerbach

The poem relates in Aurora's first-person blank-verse narrative the story of her childhood and young adulthood. The child of an English father and Italian mother, orphaned young and brought up as a member of the...

Many of CR 's works remained in print until the time of the second world war, and during the 1930s an extensive reprint series was launched. Critics took her up in the 1970s, and in...

Critic Nina Auerbach discusses this text in Woman and the Demon as an example of the cult of Shakespeare's female characters, lifted out of their dramatic context, as womanly exemplars.

Charles Wood states that Mildred Arkell seeks to address the hopelessness that fell upon so many when the ports were opened: a reference to Wood's family's financial loss which followed from the changes...

She had since childhood, apparently, believed that she ought have been male because of her love for women. According to Ellen Terry's biographer Nina Auerbach : Many lesbians of that period gave themselves men's names...

In 1960 Mopsa was included in To the Land of Fair Delight, a collection with an introduction by Noel Streatfeild which also includes tales by G. E. Farrow and George MacDonald . In 1992...