Many of ER
's contemporaries wrongly attributed the next novel in this series, Milly's Story by BAC, to Robins. BAC was in fact ER
's acquaintance Blanche Alethea Crackanthorpe
. Crackanthorpe's novel rewrites Robins'...
Literary responses
Victoria Cross
Reviews of Theodora were mixed. Janet Hogarth
, in a Fortnightly Review article titled Literary Degenerates, and B. A. Crackanthorpe
in Nineteenth Century, criticised the story's representation of sexual desire.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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The reviewer...
Friends, Associates
Laurence Hope
They met at the house of Blanche
and Montague Crackanthorpe
. Blanche Crackanthorpe published an article in 1895 which criticised the short story Theodora: A Fragment by LH
's sister Victoria Cross.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 135. Gale Research.
135 under Victoria Cross
Friends, Associates
Evelyn Underhill
EU
and her husband led active social lives, often entertaining friends and colleagues at their home. Blanche Alethea Crackanthorpe
introduced her to Marie Belloc Lowndes
, who became a friend of Underhill and called her...