Norma Clarke

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MJJ started writing The Three Histories in 1828 while on holiday in Wales, and completed it when she returned to Manchester. Scholar Norma Clarke argues that the book's interests in the incompatibility...

Norma Clarke sees in this late work some of FH 's strongest poetry and a resolution of the conflicts and inhibitions of her earlier work: Deeply religious, personal, and direct, they reaffirm the centrality of...

Despite GJ 's reputation among her contemporaries as a major influence on Victorian literature, her contributions as author and critic have faded into obscurity. Late in the period, Margaret Oliphant passed her over in The...

Wordsworth chose from her works eleven melancholy and religious couplets from Sorrow, for inclusion in his manuscript anthology presented to Lady Mary Lowther at Christmas 1819. He omitted the later part of the poem...

FH was slow to register on the radar of recuperative feminist critics. Cora Kaplan was an early exception in her anthology Salt and Bitter and Good, 1975.Margaret Homans in her early attempt to...

The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh, which contains correspondence from their first meeting in 1821 to their marriage in 1826, provides a clear (and fascinating) picture of their relationship. Given that...

The story The Miseries of Mediocrity: Confessions of a Disappointed Author also tackles the subject of literary aspiration. This time a young male writer comes to the realization that he pursued a profession for which...

She had begun writing the novel in 1842 in collaboration with Jane Carlyle and Elizabeth Paulet .