Michael Galchinsky

GA 's writings treat in detail the Jewish faith to which she strongly adhered, and she often focuses on the persecution and prejudice which Jews suffered throughout the nineteenth century, as well as historically. As...

Little is known is about MM 's formal education. However, according to critic Michael Galchinsky , her father entertained the family by reading romantic poetry as the women sat and sewed, including Byron 's Childe...

Little is known of CM 's education. Scholar Michael Galchinsky (who later wrote of her for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) describes her family's household as secularizing . . . for their father...

CM moved in a considerably higher stratum of society than her contemporary Grace Aguilar . It is possible, however, that they corresponded during their collaboration for the Cheap Jewish Library. In a letter to...

Critic Michael Galchinsky reads the story as a response to the more feminist treatment of cross-dressing in the stories of Marion and Celia Moss . GA describes her heroine as having disobeyed the positive command...

Michael Galchinsky argues that GA abandoned her earlier favourite genre of historical romance in favour of domestic fiction because of the transgressive or utopian tendencies of the romance genre in English. These tendencies had been...

An Athenæum review criticized the collection, claiming the sisters neglected the really romantic annals and legends of their nation and erroneously represented Jewish life: [T]hough the names and scenery are Jewish and Eastern, the manners...

Critic Michael Galchinsky argues that, in accordance with her own belief in the separation of spheres, GA in The Authoressis able to defend her writing as other-directed domestic labor, and therefore short-circuits in advance...

Recently, GA 's work has garnered significant critical attention from scholars Michael Ragussis and Michael Galchinsky , the latter of whom argues: Grace Aguilar did not resist but spoke the contradictions of her culture, and...

A recent commentator, Michael Galchinsky , notes that this work is historically interesting and passionate in its defense of poor Jews, but reveals a lack of interest on her part in the details of aesthetics.

In an article in the Jewish Chronicle two years afterCM died, Abraham Benisch wrote in praise of nineteenth-century Jewish women writers. He asserted that it is a remarkable phenomenon on the horizon of Anglo-Jewish...

Galchinsky suggests that in Westernising their tales the Mosses sought to engender greater sympathy from non-Jewish readers, a motive the Athenæum also acknowledges. Galchinsky argues further that the sisters' appropriation of the romance genre, in...

Despite harsh critical reception, the book was very popular. It went through numerous editions in Britain (eighteen by 1905) and in the US into the early twentieth century.Alice F. Jackson published in London and...

The journal received early and encouraging public support and became what Galchinsky calls a security zone, a women-only space, a place of female independence.Benisch's attack, however, proved that such space was ephemeral despite...

Some accused GA , on grounds of her emphasis on spirit rather than form, of being a Jewish Protestant. However, she was very well received by many in the Jewish community, and even those...