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Literary responses | L. E. L. | Thackeray
's review of the novel complimented LEL on her style but repeated the affective fallacy that operated so strongly in criticism of her poetry: The wit of it is really startling; and there are... |
Friends, Associates | Adelaide Kemble | The friends of her married life included the artist Leighton
, sculptor Hattie Hosmer
, authors Charles Hamilton Aïdé
, Henry Greville
, William Makepeace Thackeray
, and Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
. She... |
Friends, Associates | Fanny Kemble | When she returned to London, she associated with a group of friends who regularly assembled at her home, including William Makepeace Thackeray
and Alfred Tennyson
. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster. 34 |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
's later social circle included many writers: Sydney, Lady Morgan
, who became a close friend and for whom GJ
acted as amanuensis; author Lady Llanover
; author and publisher Douglas Jerrold
; and... |
Textual Production | Geraldine Jewsbury | While working for the Athenæum, she reviewed works by literary figures including Mary Russell Mitford
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, Harriet Beecher Stowe
, Camilla Crosland
, Anthony Trollope
, George Eliot
, Julia Kavanagh |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jenkins | EJ
contributed an introduction to a volume, the seventh in John Lehmann
's The Chiltern Library, published in 1947 and containing two titles by Elizabeth Gaskell
. In her introduction to Thackeray
's Vanity... |
Wealth and Poverty | Anna Brownell Jameson | Anne Procter
and Thackeray
were active in soliciting financial aid for her. John Murray
and Thackeray later became her trustees. Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press. 190 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Brownell Jameson | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Storm Jameson | Jameson briefly praises the writings of Mansfield
, Conrad
, Hardy
, and James
, along with Willa Cather
and Sinclair Lewis
. However, she concentrates her study on the way other Georgian authors have... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Sarah Hoey | In order to help establish herself, the future FSH
took with her an introduction from William Carleton
to William Thackeray
. Edwards, Peter David. Frances Cashel Hoey, 1830-1908: A Bibliography. Department of English, University of Queensland. 2 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Sarah Hoey | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | John Oliver Hobbes | 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... |
Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | The Monthly Review found the heroine of this book more interesting than Betsy Thoughtless (with better character-drawing but a continued deficiency in plot and sentiments. It conceded that the whole was doubtless much superior to... |
Residence | Nina Hamnett | However, in the late twenties NH
made arrangements with a scientist acquaintance of hers, a Dr Stafford Hatfield
, to share his work space with him for the cost of half a month's rent. His... |
Education | Sarah Grand |
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