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Residence | Ouida | Ouida
, with her mother
, moved from her previous London home to a main-floor suite at the city's fashionable Langham Hotel
, where she entertained in a salon style which was probably inspired by George Sand
. Jordan, Jane. “Ouida: The Enigma of a Literary Identity”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 57 , No. 1, pp. 75-105. 78-9 |
Reception | Ouida | Corelli took issue with the vicious reception Ouida had received, arguing that critics had read Ouida's novels in a spirit of fault-finding rather than giving the author . . . the fair chance of... |
Reception | Flora Tristan | Some personal comments in the book had lasting repercussions. In her opening chapter, FT
criticizes French writer George Sand
for writing under a male pseudonym and for softening her social critique of women's position by... |
Publishing | Henry James | When the length of his novel grew beyond ten thousand words, James submitted instead to the Yellow Book an essay on George Sand
. |
Publishing | Matilda Hays | MH
contributed to several periodicals. Her translation of George Sand
's The Countess de Rudolstadt was serialized in Ainsworth's Magazine from 1848 to 1850. Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. |
Author summary | Matilda Hays | Matilda Hays
was a novelist, translator of George Sand
, editor, and contributor to periodicals. Her work spanned many genres and a variety of topics related to women's work and opportunities. One of her two... |
Author summary | Mathilde Blind | MB
was one of the leading poets of the later nineteenth century; her burning sense of political and social injustice runs like a unifying thread through her work. Her poetry combines great beauty of sound... |
politics | Julia Ward Howe | Julia and her husband were active participants in the movement to end slavery. Samuel was hired to manage the abolitionist newspaper The Commonwealth in Boston. Julia contributed a cultural column, including a paper on Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Occupation | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | His attention to questions of power and representation helped spawn poststructuralist theory. His unregenerate misogyny—expressed in contempt for little bluestockings Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, and Michael Tanner. Twilight of the Idols; and, The Anti-Christ. Translator Holligdale, Reginald John, Penguin. 79 Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, and Michael Tanner. Twilight of the Idols; and, The Anti-Christ. Translator Holligdale, Reginald John, Penguin. 80 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Harriet Beecher Stowe | HBS
used her earlier travels in Europe as material for a travel guide for Americans. She had met Germaine de Staël
and Elizabeth Gaskell
while in Europe, and had voraciously read everything by George Sand |
Literary responses | George Eliot | On the whole reviewers were enthusiastic (E. S. Dallas
began his notice in the Times, George Eliot is as great as ever Carroll, David, editor. George Eliot: The Critical Heritage. Barnes and Noble. 131 |
Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | The novel was a massive success, in the words of Henry Jamesa momentous public event. Ward, Mary Augusta. “Introduction”. Robert Elsmere, edited by Rosemary Ashton, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xviii. vii |
Literary responses | Margaret Fuller | The memoir of MF
's life which appeared (edited by Emerson
and others) the year after her death aroused interest from such people as George Eliot
and Henry Crabb Robinson
. Robinson observed that no... |
Literary responses | Willa Cather | A review by Randolph Bourne
in the USA levelled much the same criticisms as William Heinemann
in England. Cather, Willa. On Writing. Editor Tennant, Stephen, Alfred A. Knopf. 96 |
Literary responses | Lady Caroline Lamb | William Lamb
worried intensely about the probable reception of Ada Reis, particularly the scenes in hell, and he tried to enlist William Gifford
of the Quarterly as an ally in pressuring Caroline to tone... |
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