Stephen J. Brown

Standard Name: Brown, Stephen J.
Used Form: Sthephen James Meredith Brown

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Literary responses E. Owens Blackburne
In his brief mention of the novel in Ireland in Fiction, critic Stephen J. Brown singles out for praise its good descriptions of river scenery.
Brown, Stephen J. Ireland in Fiction. Barnes and Noble, 1969, pp. 35-36.
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Literary responses E. Owens Blackburne
Considering this novel, Stephen J. Brown suggests that the two chief characters are carefully and consistently drawn, and there are some dramatic scenes.
Brown, Stephen J. Ireland in Fiction. Barnes and Noble, 1969, pp. 35-36.
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The Feminist Companion notes that while the plot is sensational, it...
Literary responses Selina Bunbury
The Irish Book Lover described SB 's early works as supplying contemporary pictures of the Ireland of the early nineteenth century, as seen by a sympathetic observer of a higher social environment than the other...
Literary responses Katherine Cecil Thurston
The parallels with KCT 's own death moved from the realm of rumour and speculation to become literary scholarship in 1916 when the story was reported by Stephen Brown in Ireland in Fiction. It...
Literary responses Harriett Jay
In his 1916Ireland in FictionStephen J. Brown wrote that The Queen of Connaught was [t]old with considerable power and insight, and particularly drew the readers' attention to the scene of the police hunt...
Literary responses Harriett Jay
In the Academy, George Saintsbury praised the novel as an excellent piece of work, although he thought it too long. He declared: [h]ow [Morna] escapes and returns to Eagle Island, and how poetical justice...
Literary responses Harriett Jay
Critical reaction to The Priest's Blessing was again mixed. The Graphic found this powerful study of the heart and mind of a savage unmarred by any word of conventional sentiment.
qtd. in
Jay, Harriett. My Connaught Cousins. F.V. White, 1883.
3: front matter
The North...
Literary responses Harriett Jay
Decades later Stephen J. Brown found the political sentiments here more acceptable than those of The Priest's Blessing. He termed this novel an excellent moral tale, and a glimpse of happy Irish life in...
Literary responses May Laffan
Weeds drew little response. In Ireland in Fiction, 1916, Stephen J. Brown denigrated it as a [l]urid and revolting story of conspiracy and murder.
Brown, Stephen J. Ireland in Fiction. New Edition, Burt Franklin, 1970.
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This contrasts with Helena Kelleher Kahn 's assessment of...
Literary responses Mary Martin
In his review in the Athenæum, H. F. Chorley detected the strong influence of Lady Morgan on the characters and action of this novel.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1184 (1850): 707
He commented also on the novel's use...
names Cecil Frances Alexander
  • BirthName: Cecil
    S. J. Brown , a scholar of Irish literature, gives this name (once not uncommon for women) as Cecilia.
    Frances Humphreys
    Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
    Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995.
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  • Nickname: Fanny
    Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995.
    3

  • Married: Alexander
  • Pseudonym: C. F. A.
    Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995.
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Publishing E. Owens Blackburne
EOB had her first work of fiction accepted for publication in 1869, according to critic Stephen J. Brown in Ireland in Fiction. It is unclear where this was published, or what its title was...
Reception Harriett Jay
As a novelist and playwright she is now mostly forgotten. She was included in Stephen J. Brown 's 1916 Ireland in Fiction, where he reduced her legacy to the authorship of two good novels...

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Texts

Brown, Stephen J. Ireland in Fiction. Maunsel and Company, Limited, 1916.
Brown, Stephen J. Ireland in Fiction. Barnes and Noble, 1969, pp. 35-36.
Brown, Stephen J. Ireland in Fiction. New Edition, Burt Franklin, 1970.