Linda K. Hughes

Standard Name: Hughes, Linda K.

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Textual Production Rosamund Marriott Watson
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).
Linda K. Hughes gives two slightly...
Textual Production Rosamund Marriott Watson
RMW published under three different names, all variations of those of her husbands and lover. She wrote as R. Armytage, as Graham R. Tomson (hinting at her own name between those of her second...
Textual Features Rosamund Marriott Watson
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 ...
Textual Features Rosamund Marriott Watson
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...
Textual Features Rosamund Marriott Watson
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.
Hughes, Linda K. “Feminizing Decadence: Poems by ’Graham R. Tomson’”. Women and British Aestheticism, edited by Talia Schaffer et al., University Press of Virginia, pp. 119-38.
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RMW writes:...
Textual Features Rosamund Marriott Watson
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,
Hughes, Linda K. “A Fin-de-Siècle Beauty and the Beast: Configuring the Body in Works by ’Graham R. Tomson’ (Rosamund Marriott Watson)”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
14
, No. 1, pp. 95-121.
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and that presages much later...
Textual Features Rosamund Marriott Watson
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...
Textual Features George Eliot
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...
Textual Features Elizabeth Gaskell
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...
Reception Rosamund Marriott Watson
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...
Reception Rosamund Marriott Watson
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...
Publishing Elizabeth Gaskell
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...
Literary responses Rosamund Marriott Watson
The Athenæum review (written by RMW 's close friend Vernon Rendall ) heaped this collection with resounding praise.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Recently Hughes , writing in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, has called it less successful...
Literary responses Elizabeth Gaskell
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...
Friends, Associates Rosamund Marriott Watson
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...

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Texts

Hughes, Linda K. “’Fair <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Hymen</span> holdeth hid a world of woes’: Myth and Marriage in Poems by ’Graham R. Tomson’ (Rosamund Marriott Watson)”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
32
, No. 2, pp. 97-120.
Hughes, Linda K. “A Female Aesthete at the Helm: Sylvia’s Journal and ’Graham R. Tomson’, 1893-1894”. Victorian Periodical Review, Vol.
29
, No. 2, pp. 173-92.
Hughes, Linda K. “A Fin-de-Siècle Beauty and the Beast: Configuring the Body in Works by ’Graham R. Tomson’ (Rosamund Marriott Watson)”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
14
, No. 1, pp. 95-121.
Hughes, Linda K. “A Woman Poet Angling for Notice: Rosamund Marriott Watson”. Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930, edited by Marysa Demoor and Marysa Demoor, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. 134-55.
Hughes, Linda K. “Feminizing Decadence: Poems by ’Graham R. Tomson’”. Women and British Aestheticism, edited by Talia Schaffer et al., University Press of Virginia, 1999, pp. 119-38.
Hughes, Linda K. Graham R.: Rosamund Marriott Watson, Woman of Letters. Ohio University Press, 2005.
Hughes, Linda K., and Michael Lund. The Victorian Serial. University Press of Virginia, 1991.
Hughes, Linda K., and Michael Lund. Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell’s Work. University Press of Virginia, 1999.