As she began to establish herself as a writer, EW
became a friend of her fellow authors Anna Maria Hall
, Julia Kavanagh
, and Mary Howitt
. The latter wrote her a complimentary letter...
Material Conditions of Writing
Mary Angela Dickens
The journal All the Year Round, founded by MAD
's grandfather
and then edited by her father, was one of the first and most significant platforms for her short stories and serialized novels. Other...
Textual Features
Agnes Giberne
A dedication to the memory of her mother quotes Not lost, but gone before (the title of a story by Margaret Gatty
).
Giberne, Agnes. Beside the Waters of Comfort. Sixth Edition, Seeley, 1911.
prelims
The book takes the bereaved through various stages of mourning and...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Sophie Veitch
Religious Novels and the Christian Ideal laments that religious novels so seldom put forward truly admirable patterns of life, but instead encourage phariseeism and self-satisfaction. SV
dissects with some disgust Ministering Children by Maria Louisa Charlesworth
