William Makepeace Thackeray

Charlotte Brontë wrote to CG to voice her admiration: not the echo of another mind—the pale reflection of a reflection—but the result of original observation, and faithful delineation from actual life.Edward Copeland finds...

Although she occasionally uses the theatre metaphor employed by her father (as at the end of Old Kensington), few of ATR 's characters feel like puppets pulled on strings. As her final novel notes...

The chapters are headed with epigraphs from writers including Tennyson , the BrowningsRobert Browning , and her father . The book pays tribute to the vanished Kensington of ATR 's childhood, still in the 1850s a...

The title of the Blackstick Papers alludes to the character of the Fairy Blackstick from her father 's Rose and the Ring: she places her essays under the kindly tutelage of this spirit...

In August 2009 an issue of Women's Writing devoted to the silver-fork novel included several discussions of CG 's work. April Kendra argued that Thackeray learned from her as well as parodying her.Lauren Gillingham

The virtues of this powerful Irish novel were not fully appreciated in England. Mary Russell Mitford thought that Morgan would be all right without the politics: she would be worth reading and praising if only...

ATR 's work continually and creatively blurs generic boundaries, just as it tends to straddle the private and the public, the personal and the political. Her work is in many respects an astute negotiation of...

The Athenæum noted that the first volume was printed and bound in seventeenth-century style so well that had we stumbled on it in some old library, we should have rejoiced over a newly discovered literary...

Pearl Richards (later JOH ) read widely as a child and adolescent, and her parents' liberal views (and considerable fortune) meant that she could pursue her tastes in both the lending libraries and the less...

Her one-paragraph preface says these pieces were written long since,in the days of crinoline,croquet, and the violent purples of the then new aniline dyes.

The title sounds like an allusion more to Thackeray than to Bunyan .

COCE headed her book with two lines from Thomas Campion : Alas, poor book . . . go spread thy papery wings. / Thy lightness cannot help or hurt my fame. She walks a...

Like her first novel to see print, Gee says, this one took seven years to find a publisher. Speaking about it at a date fairly early in its long quest for print, she mentioned that...

Miriam finds local gossip that Florence is attempting to entrap her father ludicrous, and describes it as a comic parallel to Vanity Fair, with Florence not as Becky Sharp but as Amelia having to...

The paired heroines of The Lady's Mile each tread close to being seduced across that camouflaged barrier after each has, for quite different reasons, entered a loveless marriage. The beautiful, aristocratic, and noble but impoverished...