Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. “Self-Education”. The Westminster Review, John Chapman, pp. 73 -94.
63 (July 1855): 39-41
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Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | Self-Education looks at the shortcomings of current school systems for both poor and privileged children. Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. “Self-Education”. The Westminster Review, John Chapman, pp. 73 -94. 63 (July 1855): 39-41 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Philip Larkin | This volume includes the highly characteristic Wants, a two-stanza poem with two refrains: Beyond all this, the wish to be alone, and Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs. Larkin, Philip. Collected Poems. Thwaite, AnthonyEditor , Faber and Faber; the Marvell Press, 2003. 52 |
Literary Setting | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Despite Jewsbury's comment, this is a particularly strong novel, which focuses on the position of women through character development and interior lives, although narration rather than dialogic showing is still the dominant technique. Nor is... |
Occupation | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
's theatre career peaked with her run at the Surrey Theatre
, London, in pieces like J. B. Johnstone
's The Sailor of France and How We Live in the World of London... |
Textual Features | Isa Craig | IC
's article has a documentary feel typical of much social investigation literature, particularly the seamstress narrative popularized by writers such as Thomas Hood
, Henry Mayhew
, and Elizabeth Gaskell
in her novel Ruth... |
Textual Features | Michèle Roberts | In the earlier period of the novel, Joseph Benson takes a philanthropic interest in fallen women, and helps Henry Mayhew
in the research for his ground-breaking London Labour and the London Poor, published in... |