Mary Madge Lascelles

ML dedicated to Mary Lascelles (who had taught her at Somerville College ) her bio- critical work on three Victorian writers for children: Mrs. Ewing , Mrs. Molesworth , and Mrs. Hodgson Burnett.

Scholar Mary Lascelles calls Alfred Gatty a man by no means negligible, but overshadowed by his wife, whom she thinks redoubtable. The pair had waited patiently for several years before Margaret's father would...

Modern criticism of Austen, now remarkably rich and varied, may be seen as having begun with a monograph by Mary Lascelles , Jane Austen and her Art, 1939, which was also the first to...

Our Field in this volume (first published in Aunt Judy's Magazine in September 1876) was said to have been Ruskin 's favourite among JHE 's stories (though not, Mary Lascelles thinks, a favourite with children).

She was reciprocally admired by Ruskin in the nineteenth century, and admired also by Kipling in the twentieth. Critic Mary Lascelles lamented at the centenary of JHE 's death that her books had been allowed...

Of the title story (which features runaway children and a burning house), Mary Lascelles observes in connection with the character of the barge-master (drawn from life) that the adult characters have weight and substance enough...