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Publishing | Mary Cholmondeley | MC
produced three more novels following Red Pottage: Moth and Rust (1902, reprinted 1977), Prisoners (Fast Bound in Misery and Iron), 1906, and Notwithstanding, 1913 (published in the United States as After... |
Occupation | Harriett Jay | After this HJ
seems to have done less professional acting, while The Stage reported in June 1888 that she was shortly to produce, as well as taking the lead role in, a charity performance of... |
Occupation | Constance Smedley | Since the Langham Place Group
had provided a social space for women in 1860, several organizations had already challenged the flourishing institution of men's clubs. The Lyceum Club
came on the scene at a time... |
Literary responses | Ethel M. Dell | In response to a compliment on her writing EMD
replied, they are not well written and will never be called classics. Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton. 129 |
Literary responses | Charlotte Yonge | During her lifetime CY
was ranked as a serious novelist with Austen
, Trollope
, Balzac
, and Zola
. Contemporaries like Louisa Alcott
, Margaret Oliphant
, Ellen Wood
, and Rhoda Broughton
made... |
Literary responses | Helen Mathers | This novel too was met with accusations of being a mere imitation of others' work. Fraser's even speculated that the author had written it perhaps . . . in sheer contempt for the art which... |
Literary responses | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Geraldine Jewsbury
in the Athenæum saw considerable promise in the book, but blamed it for verging on a treatment of incest which ought to be . . . inadmissable for a novel. Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, p. various pages. 67 The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html. |
Literary responses | Q. D. Leavis | Fiction and the Reading Public was widely reviewed. In the Criterion of July 1932, T. S. Eliot
commended its argument: A society which does not recognize the existence of art is barbaric. But a society... |
Literary responses | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Trollope
admired her work alongside that of Rhoda Broughton
, though he thought her writing lazy. Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, p. various pages. 164 |
Leisure and Society | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Subscribers to the portrait included Gertrude Bell
, Arnold Bennett
, Rhoda Broughton
, Lucy Clifford
, Henry James
, Elizabeth Robins
, the Tennyson
s, Josephine Ward
, and Margaret Woods
. Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 272-3 Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Hester Helen Thackeray Fuller. Letters of Anne Thackeray Ritchie. J. Murray. 285-7 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Taylor | |
Intertextuality and Influence | John Strange Winter | At the height of her career JSW
gave an account of her early development to the memoirist George Bainton
. She said she hardly knew how or why she came to be able to write... |
Intertextuality and Influence | John Oliver Hobbes | Pearl Richards (later JOH
) read widely as a child and adolescent, and her parents' liberal views (and considerable fortune) meant that she could pursue her tastes in both the lending libraries and the less... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rudyard Kipling | Baa Baa Black Sheep, in the same collection, is a strange, dark tale, based on Kipling's own experience, of how young Punch, aged five, and his sister Judy, three, are taken from India to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
was encouraged to write from an early age, particularly by her mother. She would later recall how when she was eight and had just learned to write, her godfather bought her a beautiful brand... |
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