Patricia Murphy

Reviews of Dear Faustina were generally positive, while mostly condemning the character of Faustina. The Spectator said she inspires distrust at the outset, and distrust soon deepens into downright repugnance, and saw her as a...

Elaine Showalter brought SG to the attention of late-twentieth-century New Woman and feminist criticism in A Literature of Their Own, 1977, where she discussed The Heavenly Twins and The Beth Book. Since...

Recently her writing has been included in Victorian Women Poets: an Anthology, edited by Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton , 1995; in Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology, edited by Isobel Armstrong ,...

Critic Patricia Murphy argues that this novel reads like a fictionalized version of Nietzsche 's treatise on the past in Unzeitgemässe betrachtungen (published in 1873, translated into English in 1983), in which he cautions against...

The anonymous novel Lady Hetty, A Story of Scottish and Australian Life, is attributed to MC by the British Library Catalogue and by critic Patricia Murphy , but seems to be actually by John Service