EDA
may have had affairs with several literary men: Henry Harland
, her editor; John Lane
, her publisher; and M. P. Shiel
, who, like her, contributed to Lane's Keynotes series. The possibility that...
Literary responses
Ethel Lilian Voynich
Bertrand Russell
exclaimed that it was one of the most exciting novels [he had] read in the English language.
MacHale, Desmond. The Life and Work of George Boole: A Prelude to the Digital Age. Cork University Press, 2014.
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Ramm, Benjamin. The Irish novel that seduced the USSR. 25 Jan. 2017.
Many responses were inflected by gender. Frederick Rolfe
(Baron Corvo) poetically asserted: It is doubtful...
Textual Features
Pamela Hansford Johnson
The tone of this novel and its sequels is savagely satirical. It partakes in the venerable tradition of burlesquing the affectations of the literary world, but for PHJ
it was something entirely new. The eponymous...
Textual Production
Pamela Hansford Johnson
PHJ
wrote introductions for the Norton
edition of Trollope
's Barchester Towers, 1962, and for Cecil Woolf
's and Brocard Sewell
's volume of essays entitled Corvo
, 1860-1960, 1961. She contributed in...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Ella D'Arcy
This memoir presents extended word-pictures of Henry Harland
and Frederick Rolfe
(who satirised her in his Nicholas Crabbe, which was as yet unpublished during her career, but circulating in manuscript). She writes touchingly about...