Robert Lee Wolff

Standard Name: Wolff, Robert Lee

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Publishing Mary Elizabeth Braddon
From late 1861 MEB published in her future husband John Maxwell 's Temple Bar, edited by George Augustus Sala , a periodical which aimed to compete with the prestigious Cornhill Magazine.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland.
115-17
In...
Publishing Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A subplot excised in revision as Henry Dunbar was recycled into the short story Lost and Found: this removed the bigamy and blackmail from the novel. This time the novel in book form was...
Textual Features Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The philanthropic aristocrat Charles Raymond in this story is based on MEB 's friend Charles Bray .
Carnell, Jennifer. The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Study of Her Life and Work. Sensation Press.
53
Wolff sees Isabel (who during her youth lives as did MEB in Camberwell) as a kind...
Textual Features Mary Elizabeth Braddon
As Robert Lee Wolff argues, The Lady's Mile represents an innovation in the portrayal of male character in Victorian fiction: MEB 's brave officer sells his commission and leaves the army in order to pursue...
Textual Features Mary Elizabeth Braddon
But despite reminiscence of other MEB fiction—emphasis on a providential Hand guiding the action, reference to a private lunatic asylum as a living tomb
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. Rupert Godwin. Ward, Lock, and Tyler.
271
the novel is a considerable drop in quality from...
Textual Features Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Critic Robert Lee Wolff sees MEB in her novels of the 1870s as satirizing the hypocrisy of middle-class Low-church values while seeming to espouse them,
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland.
241
in part because she was trying to compete with...
Textual Features Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Robert Lee Wolff argues that this is one of MEB 's very best Wilkie Collins -style investigations.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland.
243
As in much of MEB 's other fiction in this style, the reader can easily and...
Literary responses Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Robert Lee Wolff considers this, with Joshua Haggard's Daughter, one of her two masterpieces.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland.
8
Literary responses Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Athenæum praised MEB 's command of English and avoidance of sensationalism in this work.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3164 (1888): 759
Her biographer Robert Lee Wolff judged it to be the best of all her sensation novels.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books.
69: 36
Textual Features Mary Elizabeth Braddon
By Robert Lee Wolff 's estimate this novel (based on E.T.A. Hoffmann 's story of the doppelgänger) was her forty-eighth novel. He judges it, like her other late three-volume works, a feeble effort.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland.
353
Textual Features Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The slight psychological interest of this story is overshadowed, however, by a fascination with Helen's rescuer, aesthete and poet Daniel Lester, who in his larger-than-life physical presence and flamboyant personality is patently Wilde . Lester...
Literary responses Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Critic Robert Lee Wolff places this among MEB 's best works for its psychological delicacy and stylistic economy and its bold treatment of physical love.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland.
392, 395
Textual Production Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB completed the penny parts of her first novel, Three Times Dead; or, The Secret of the Heath, in the ground-breaking genre of the detective novel. Begun in February of this year, it was...
Textual Production Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Harvard 's Houghton Library has a number of significant manuscripts by MEB including notebooks as well as novels. The extensive collection of her printed titles and manuscripts owned by Robert Lee Wolff of Harvard University
Education Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Later in life, she did Latin translation with her children and taught herself some Greek, in hopes, according to biographer and critic Robert Lee Wolff , of remedying the deficiency in her education that caused...

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Wolff, Robert Lee et al. “Devoted Disciple: The Letters of Mary Elizabeth Braddon to Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, 1862-1873”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
22
, pp. 1 - 35, 129.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Gains and Losses: Novels of Faith and Doubt in Victorian England. Garland, 1977.
Wolff, Robert Lee, and May Laffan. “May Laffan Hartley and Two Examples of her Irish Fiction”. Hogan, M.P., Garland, 1979, p. v - ix.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Nineteenth-Century Fiction. Garland, 1986.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
Wolff, Robert Lee. The Golden Key. Yale University Press, 1961.