Shirley Foster

Standard Name: Foster, Shirley

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Dinah Mulock Craik
Elaine Showalter initiated feminist interest in DMC , first with a substantial article and then with treatment of her as a paradigmatic feminine novelist who promoted domesticity as a defensive strategy.
Showalter, Elaine. “Dinah Mulock Craik and the Tactics of Sentiment: A Case Study in Victorian Female Authorship”. Feminist Studies, Vol.
2
, 1975, pp. 5-23.
Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own. Princeton University Press, 1977.
85-6
Cora Kaplan ...
Literary responses Elizabeth Sewell
Critic Shirley Foster calls The Experience of Lifea more positive and committed approach to singleness than almost any other woman's novel of its time. She judges it one of ES 's best works.
Foster, Shirley. Victorian Women’s Fiction: Marriage, Freedom and the Individual. Croom Helm, 1985.
133
Reception Julia Kavanagh
Scholars agree that JK 's Nathalie in turn influenced Brontë 's Villette, which was published three years later. Some note a particular resemblance between JK 's Nathalie and Brontë's Lucy Snowe.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
Shirley Foster ...
Reception Julia Kavanagh
Critics have drawn different conclusions from the perceived connection between JK 's life and her works. Katharine S. Macquoid noted in 1897 that Kavanagh never obtrudes her personality on the reader, though she lifts him...
Textual Features Matilda Charlotte Houstoun
This text recounts MCH 's voyage aboard the Hibernia to Canada and the United States. Like her first travel narrative, it covers a range of topics including the Quadroons, Niagara Falls, maple...
Textual Production Julia Kavanagh
Several commentators picked up the idea of influence by Jane Eyre. H. F. Chorley in the Athenæum praised the work as JK 's best to date, for a sentiment, a tenderness, an old-world French...

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Texts

Foster, Shirley. “‘A Suggestive Book’: A Source for Villette”. Etudes anglaises, Vol.
35
, No. 2, pp. 177-84.
Foster, Shirley. Across New Worlds: Nineteenth-Century Women Travellers and their Writings. Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990.
Foster, Shirley. Victorian Women’s Fiction: Marriage, Freedom and the Individual. Croom Helm, 1985.