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| Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | A 26-volume Centenary Biographical Edition of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray
was published with revised introductions by ATR
. MacKay, Carol Hanbery et al. “Introduction: Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s Centenary Biographical Introductions to the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”. The Two Thackerays: Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s Centenary Biographical Introductions to the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, AMS Press. xviii Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research. 256 |
| Textual Production | Ellen Wood | EW
purchased the magazine from Alexander Strahan
, who had decided to sell following the backlash prompted by Charles Reade
's sexually frank novel Griffith Gaunt. Her position as editor of a family magazine... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Gaskell | Illustrated by George du Maurier
, this serial ran alongside fiction by Trollope
and Thackeray
, and shared the lead with Collins
's Armadale. EG
received £2,000 for the serialisation (as compared to Collins's... |
| Textual Production | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
was encouraged to write from an early age, particularly by her mother. She would later recall how when she was eight and had just learned to write, her godfather bought her a beautiful brand... |
| Textual Production | Naomi Royde-Smith | In an Author's NoteNRS
tenders her thanks to the shades of Miss Austen, Miss Burney
, Miss Edgeworth
, Mrs Sherwood
and Mr. W. M. Thackeray for the life-long pleasure they have given her... |
| Textual Features | Lucas Malet | But the context is still the fashionable jungle. Mr Perry can conceive of no higher glory than wealth and social success, and is ruthless in pursuit of these for his daughter and thus himself. Fat... |
| Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | Lyndal Gordon observes that biographically, the novel offers a rationale for the Woolf marriage, while it circles the unknown and unused potentialities of women in the context of their struggle for the vote. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Textual Features | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | The narrator adopts a brisk and cheery tone—commenting when her heroine has resigned herself to a useful life devoted to others, My dear little Elizabeth! I am glad that at last she is behaving pretty... |
| Textual Features | Lady Margaret Sackville | Austen
, she says, was the first really modern novelist . . . more modern in a sense than Dickens
or Thackeray
. Austen, Jane. “Introduction”. Jane Austen, edited by Lady Margaret Sackville, Herbert & Daniel, p. ix - xvi. xi |
| Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
's letters regularly indulge in analysis of books. She comments on works by both men and women, in English and French, and her opinions shift a good deal with age. She reacted with horror... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Included here were A Musical Instrument, a treatment of the Greek god Pan and of the distortions inflicted on the human life by a calling to poetry, which became one of her most anthologized... |
| Textual Features | Anne Mozley | The review of Adam Bede is indeed most perceptive as well as detailed. AM
begins by noticing how novels have been expanding their empire: how many have been added to their readership by the newer... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Rigby | While she held Jane Eyre in contempt, she showed general admiration for Becky Sharp, protagonist of Thackeray
's Vanity Fair, calling her wonderfully clever, and amusing, and accomplished, and intelligent. Rigby, Elizabeth. “Review: <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Vanity Fair</span>; <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Jane Eyre</span>; <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Governesses’ Benevolent Institution: Report for 1847</span>”;. Quarterly Review, Vol. 84 , pp. 153-85. 157 |
| Textual Features | Constance Lytton | Most of the letters here are addressed to CL
's mother, her editor-sister, and two close friends who were also relations, her aunt Theresa Earle
and her cousin Adela Smith
. Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, and Constance Lytton. “Preface, Introduction”. Letters of Constance Lytton, edited by Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour and Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, Heinemann, p. v, xi - xv. v |
| Textual Features | Dorothy L. Sayers | Here she mounts a powerful appreciation of the novel, both for its importance in the development of the detective story (all the clues, she says, are clearly conveyed to the reader, something which seldom happened... |
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