Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton.
42, 44
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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... |
Education | Alice Meynell | In the summer of 1852 Elizabeth and Alice Thompson (later AM
) began their education under their father's instruction. Recording her daughters' lessons, Christiana Thompson writes, Dear little angels do their writing . .... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore | Stoney's first wife had died in early 1775, after alleged beatings and starvation, leaving him everything she owned (like her successor's, it was colliery money). Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton. 42, 44 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore | Stoney (henceforward Bowes) was described by a close friend as considering all females as natural game. Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton. 161 |
Education | Emma Marshall | At a very early age Emma Martin could recite See'st thou my home is where yon woods are waving by Felicia Hemans
. Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley. 8 |
Publishing | Anne Marsh | Harriet Martineau
was amazed when AM
first read her one of these tales, The Admiral's Daughter, and felt that their hostess later that evening (Sarah Wedgwood
) must have been almost equally amazed... |
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... |
Literary responses | Lucas Malet | Two things about this novel gave offence initially and had a long-term effect on its reputation: its treating the nasty Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Jane Loudon | As well as horticultural and artistic friends and associates, JL
and her husband had literary friends, who included Robert Chambers
and his wife Anne
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, Mary Howitt
, Julia Kavanagh
, Charles Dickens |
Residence | Eliza Lynn Linton | She was said to have moved there as a result of her quarrel with the editor of the Morning Chronicle. She shared a two-room apartment up five flights of stairs with a young Anglo-French... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Lynn Linton | 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. This places the period of composition in the 1860s, after... |
Textual Production | Eliza Lynn Linton | ELL
's My Literary Life appeared posthumously, edited by Beatrice Harraden
: titled thus on the title-page and spine, it is in the half-title and elsewhere called Reminiscences of Dickens
, Thackeray
, George Eliot |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | Through the theological writer Dr Robert Herbert Brabant
(an early admirer of George Eliot), Lynn at this time met Walter Savage Landor
, whom she had long admired, and with whom she became close friends... |
Reception | L. E. L. | The merits of annuals in general were debated, and with some their contents became a byword for poor literary quality. Thus although Christian Isobel Johnstone
considered LEL's Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book for 1836 to... |
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