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Literary responses | John Oliver Hobbes | More recently, Margaret Maison
characterised The School For Saints as a strange mixture of Disraeli
, Hardy
, Ouida
, and Meredith
. . . and there are even echoes of the old bigamy novels... |
Literary responses | Agnes Strickland | Despite intense controversy over its details, the work as a whole was a great popular success. It brought AS
fame; it provided a quarry of subject-matter for historical painters; it brought begging letters (presumably written... |
Literary Setting | John Oliver Hobbes | The protagonist of the novel, which is set primarily in the 1860s, is Robert de Hausée Orange, an idealistic orphan whose various adventures lead him through from Normandy in France to England, English politics, and... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Rigby | The preface notes that the work was ready for publication in the Spring, but delayed by the publisher
's wish, on account of the agitated state of the political atmosphere. Rigby, Elizabeth. Mrs. Grote. John Murray. vi This presumably refers to... |
Occupation | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl Lytton | His first task was to organize the celebrations on New Year's Day 1877 for Queen Victoria
's proclamation as Empress of India. The rest of his time as Viceroy was quite controversial. His policy towards... |
Occupation | Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton | Bulwer
served as an independent radical Member of Parliament, who in 1832 reformed himself out of a seat. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
Occupation | Richard Hengist Horne | Reports such as Horne's also provided writers of protest literature such as Benjamin Disraeli
, Charles Dickens
, and Elizabeth Gaskell
with material which they incorporated into their fiction. Elizabeth Barrett
's The Cry of... |
Occupation | John Wilson Croker | He was caricatured in works by Benjamin Disraeli
,Thomas Love Peacock
, Sydney Morgan herself, and her sister Olivia Clarke
. While the story that he caused the death of Keats is long since... |
Publishing | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | In great need of money, Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
, began contributing to the Burlington Magazine; her first article blasted critics of Disraeli
's novel Endymion. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray. 171 |
Publishing | Ellen Johnston | The forty-eight patrons and subscribers thanked in the second edition included Queen Victoria
, Benjamin Disraeli
, Robert Napier
, and Lord Raglan
, as well as other members of the nobility and the army... |
Reception | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Following the death of her husband
, JFLW
wrote to Sir Thomas Larcom
, hoping he could help secure her a government pension. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray. 143 |
Reception | Janet Hamilton | In 1868 a petition to Benjamin Disraeli
on behalf of JH
resulted in an award of £50 from the Royal Bounty Fund. She also received a visit from a son—or possibly a general—of Italian unification... |
Reception | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The second of four early dramatic adaptations of Aurora Floyd, this one by Benjamin Webster
, opened. Weak copyright law meant MEB
received nothing for the many pirated versions of her books that were... |
Reception | John Oliver Hobbes | The New York Times reported in 1902 that on the strength of The School For Saints, JOH
had been asked to write a biography of Benjamin Disraeli
. If she began this project, she... |
Reception | Ellen Johnston | EJ
wrote a petition to Prime Minister Disraeli
that resulted in a grant of £50 from the Royal Bounty. Klaus, H. Gustav. Factory Girl: Ellen Johnston and Working-Class Poetry in Victorian Scotland. Peter Lang. 91 |
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