Harris, Mary J. Y. Memoirs of Frances Mary Peard. W. H. Smith, 1930.
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Mary J. Y. Harris
Standard Name: Harris, Mary J. Y.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Frances Mary Peard | However, according to her biographer, Mary J. Y. Harris
, she was largely self-taught. Her mother never restricted her reading, and she later remembered tackling at an early age such classics as Scott
, Shakespeare |
| Literary responses | Christabel Coleridge | Mary J. Y. Harris
(biographer of Frances Mary Peard
) regarded An English Squire as CC
's best novel, though she also mentioned Lady Betty (her first), Max, Fritz, and Hob, 1892, and The... |
| Literary responses | Frances Mary Peard | Mary J. Y. Harris
ranks Near Neighbours among FMP
's most popular titles. Another of these, according to Harris, was Contradictions, 1883, of which a copy was offered for sale in 2006 at a... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Roberts | Mary J. Y. Harris
, biographer of Frances Mary Peard
, calls this MR
's best-known novel, and says it was a favourite with Queen Victoria
. |
| Literary responses | Margaret Roberts | Mary J. Y. Harris
in 1930 pronounced MR
the most brilliant of the group of women writers who lived at Torquy in Devon during the 1860s and later. Harris, Mary J. Y. Memoirs of Frances Mary Peard. W. H. Smith, 1930. 16 |
| Textual Production | Frances Mary Peard | Her biographer Harris
found her moral too heavy-handed, and Alicia's engagement and marriage quite unnecessary as well as miserable. Harris, Mary J. Y. Memoirs of Frances Mary Peard. W. H. Smith, 1930. 58 |
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