Linda K. Hughes

George stood firmly against her literary pursuits and reportedly felt threatened by her widening social life. More difficulties arose over Rosamund's various flirtations. (Linda K. Hughes in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography suggests...

Andrew Lang played an important role in introducing Rosamund Tomson to literary circles, where she became known not only for her talent, but also for her beauty. Linda K. Hughes calls her the female counterpart...

The Athenæum review (written by RMW 's close friend Vernon Rendall ) heaped this collection with resounding praise. Recently Hughes , writing in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, has called it less successful...

Early twentieth-century critics represented EG as a thoroughly domestic and womanly woman—Lord David Cecil in Early Victorian Novelists described her as the typical Victorian woman: gentle, domestic, tactful, unintellectual, prone to tears, easily...

She was paid £300 for the serial form of the book, £50 more than initially promised. This, her first serialised novel, produced fierce arguments with Dickens over everything from the overall length to the conclusions...

RMW was clearly succeeding in the literary world, fashioning for herself a distinct poetic persona. Linda Hughes finds evidence of this in Katharine Tynan 's essay A Literary Causerie, which appeared in The Speaker...

Although her poetic achievements received less critical notice during her final years and following her death than earlier in her career, she has more recently been included (and celebrated) in several anthologies of Victorian poetry...

Some of the fifteen poems chronicle the end of a love affair, perhaps foreshadowing her own marital crisis. Scholar Linda K. Hughes notes the influence of Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti , Jean Ingelow ...

The poems range widely in form. As well as ballads and sonnets, they include translations from French and Italian. According to Hughes , the publication announced its author's allegiance to aestheticism through sections devoted to...

Of the Earth, Earthy is one of RMW 's many works dedicated to city life. Hughes suggests that Amy Levy (particularly through A London Plane-Tree) and Charles Baudelaire influenced this poem.RMW writes:...

A Ballad of the Were-Wolf features a woman transformed into the legendary beast, a metamorphosis that might signal a possible bifurcation between the woman as wife and as monster, and that presages much later...

Another poem here, The Quern of the Giants, reworks the Icelandic legend of Fenia and Menia, two giant sisters forced into turning millstones for King Frodi. Their endless work greatly benefits their captor until...

Despite GE 's struggle with serial publication, she did exploit it to her purposes. Critics Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund note that Romola seems to many readers to move precipitously from her decision to...

A recurring theme in Cranford is the resistance to change of this insular group—who are convinced, for instance, that robberies must be perpetrated by strangers and that a Signor Brunoni, who turns out to...

RMW (who still published under the name Graham R. Tomson) edited sixteen issues of Sylvia's Journal (previously known as The Young Englishwoman, and Sylvia's Home Journal).