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Charlotte Mitchell
Standard Name: Mitchell, Charlotte
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Victoria Cross | While her sisters are known to have attended a small boarding school in England, it is unknown whether Annie Sophie, or VC
, ever had any form of institutionalised lower schooling in England or India... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Clive | CC
's mother, Anna Maria Meysey
, was the only surviving daughter and heiress of Charles Watkins Meysey
, whose family descended from the lineage of William the Conqueror
. She died in 1836. |
| Friends, Associates | Victoria Cross | Possibly because VC
spent so much time travelling, it is difficult to judge the extent of her social circle. She is unmentioned by many literary autobiographies of the period. Charlotte Mitchell
suggests that she may... |
| Literary responses | Caroline Clive | According to scholar Eric Partridge
, though not a masterpiece, [it] is a very readable story, written with ability. Partridge, Eric Honeywood. “Mrs. Archer Clive”. Literary Sessions, Scholartis Press, 1932. 128 |
| Literary responses | Victoria Cross | Sewell Stokes
, in a brief portrait of VC
in 1928, described her as one who had at one time been accused of poisoning the purity of British homes with her sordid writings .... |
| Literary responses | Rosa Nouchette Carey | A reviewer for the New York Times commented on Carey's decision to include only the very best-known English women in her book when the number of women who are to-day doing good work here in... |
| Literary responses | Rosa Nouchette Carey | During her lifetime there was no shortage, in reviews of her novels in the popular press, of such adjectives as fresh, charming, and pretty, handy for quoting in listings of her works... |
| Publishing | Victoria Cross | |
| Publishing | Victoria Cross | In July 1905, VC
had signed a contract with T. Werner Laurie
for Six Women, a collection of stories that returned to her theme of interracial love and included the early story previously titled... |
| Reception | Caroline Clive | Charlotte Mitchell
published a bibliography of CC
in 1999. |
| Reception | Victoria Cross | Anna Lombard, described by Charlotte Mitchell
as VC
's most notorious work, Mitchell, Charlotte. Victoria Cross, 1868-1952: A Bibliography. Victorian Fiction Research Unit, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland, 2002. 1 |
| Residence | Laurence Hope | With her education complete at the age of sixteen, Adela Florence Cory (later the poet LH
) travelled to Lahore in India (now in Pakistan) to be with her parents. Charlotte Mitchell
in her critical... |
| Textual Features | Victoria Cross | VC
's work demonstrates a consistent non-conformity with bourgeois values on a range of issues. Most notably these relate to marriage, but she was also critical of organised religion, Western spirituality, and Western medicine. Charlotte Mitchell |
| Textual Production | Victoria Cross | In March 1895, Cross signed a contract with John Lane to produce a novel titled Consummation. Cross and Lane agreed to a second contract, for The Woman Who Didn't, on 27 June 1895... |
| Textual Production | Victoria Cross | In 1910 The Love of Kusuma: An Eastern Love Story appeared in print, with an introduction by VC
. While the novel purports to be by Bal Krishna, translated from Hindustani, Charlotte Mitchell |
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