Helen Debenham

Standard Name: Debenham, Helen

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Textual Features	Jessie Fothergill	Scholar Helen Debenham argues that it disconcertingly revises Charlotte Yonge and upsets expected patterns of response Debenham, Helen. “’Almost always two sides to a question’: the novels of Jessie Fothergill”. Popular Victorian Women Writers, edited by Kay Boardman and Shirley Jones, Manchester University Press, pp. 66-89. 73 by revising a familiar story of renunciation and moral reward.
Literary responses	Jessie Fothergill	The subject-matter led one reviewer to comment that JFdoes not deal with the most agreeable of subjects. Gardiner, Linda. “Jessie Fothergill’s Novels”. Novel Review, Vol. 1 , No. 1, pp. 153-60. 159 Helen Debenham observes that while JF never abandons her social concerns, the emphasis shifts as she...
Literary responses	Jessie Fothergill	Helen Debenham notes that the social issues and emotional situations that interested JF did not lend themselves easily to serialisation or to the demands of the triple decker. In any case, a novelist who does...
Travel	Jessie Fothergill	JF probably made the first of her visits to Germany, culminating in a fifteen-month stay in Düsseldorf with her sister Caroline and two friends. Accounts differ on the timing of the trips. The Oxford Dictionary...
Family and Intimate relationships	Jessie Fothergill	Although not as well known or successful as JF , her younger sister Caroline Fothergill published at least eight novels between 1883 and 1897, including Put to the Proof (1883), A Question of Degree (1896)...
Cultural formation	Jessie Fothergill	JF 's father, a former Quaker , was cast out by the Society of Friends when he married an Anglican wife. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Scholar Helen Debenham notes, citing correspondence with Ian Fell , who is writing a...
Publishing	Jessie Fothergill	It was reprinted in one volume with an author's preface and reclassified as Healey, A Tale in 1884. In the preface to the reprint, JF makes no reference to the extensive revisions, stating only that...

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Debenham, Helen. “’Almost always two sides to a question’: the novels of Jessie Fothergill”. Popular Victorian Women Writers, edited by Kay Boardman and Shirley Jones, Manchester University Press, 2004, pp. 66-89.