His article, Sensation Novelists: Miss Braddon, which covered seven novels she had published since 1862, made a famous personal attack in asserting that her work evidenced familiarity with a very low type of female...
Reception
Ouida
Within a few years of her first novel's publication, Ouida
had attained some celebrity as a writer, but not all the attention she received was positive. While her sales were strong, she was attacked for...
Textual Features
Margaret Oliphant
Oliphant develops an extended critique of her chief bugbears, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
(the leader of her school
), Rhoda Broughton
(not by name, but as author of Cometh Up As a Flower),...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Sophia Jex-Blake
SJB
's review is largely informational. It covers works of fiction including New Grooves by Annie Thomas
, A Woman-Hater by Charles Reade
, Dr. Edith Romney by Anne Elliot
, Doctor Zay by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps