Devendra P. Varma

Standard Name: Varma, Devendra P.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Eleanor Sleath
ES belonged to the presumably white, English upper-middle class or minor gentry. She was baptised a member of the Anglican Church , though gothicists Michael Sadleir and Devendra P. Varma , who had different theories...
Literary responses Isabella Kelly
The Critical felt that IK had disarmed reviewers by the humility of her preface.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 36 (1802): 117
Devendra P. Varma , who wrote that this book was a thundering success in its day...
Literary responses Elizabeth Meeke
Devendra P. Varma calls the style here pedestrian, but some scenes striking.
Varma, Devendra P., and Elizabeth Meeke. “Foreword”. Count St. Blancard, Arno Press, 1977, p. v - xiv.
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Literary responses Elizabeth Meeke
The notice in the Critical Review betrayed impatience with this novel: it was particularly displeased with the proliferation of dukes and duchesses, marquisses and marchionesses, the bad grammar, and the libellous view of the abodes...
Literary responses Eliza Parsons
The Critical Review judged that the modesty with which [Parsons] deprecates the severity of criticism demand and deserve our applause. It approved the style, too, though not the number of digressions, and enjoyed Eugenia's foolish...
Literary responses Eliza Parsons
The Critical feared that with many instructive lessons the novel lacked amusement and was furthermore predictably plotted.
Garside, Peter, James Raven, and Rainer Schöwerling, editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Devendra P. Varma , admirer of EP 's gothic novels, found this one commonplace and its...
Literary responses Eliza Parsons
Most published comment on EP has been confined to her gothic novels, and most gothicists (Montague Summers and Devendra P. Varma , for instance) have treated her grudgingly: less than mediocre
Hoeveler, Diane Long, and Eliza Parsons. “Introduction”. The Castle of Wolfenbach, edited by Diane Long Hoeveler and Diane Long Hoeveler, Valancourt Books, 2007, p. vii - xvii.
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and respectable...
Literary Setting Eleanor Sleath
The story opens in the year 1605 in a cottage near the Jura Mountains. Later scenes set in Salzburg convinced Devendra P. Varma that Sleath was personally acquainted with that city.
Varma, Devendra P., and Eliza Parsons. “Introduction”. Castle of Wolfenbach, Folio Press, 1968, p. xiii - xxiv.
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Publishing Elizabeth Meeke
No original has been identified; scholar Carol Markham assumes that the translation claim is itself fictitious. A facsimile appeared in a series from Arno Press in 1977 with a forward by Devendra P. Varma and...
Publishing Eleanor Sleath
The facsimile of 1972 has an introduction by Devendra P. Varma .
Reception Eliza Parsons
The Critical Review judged this a novel not one of the first order, or even of the second, and its characters too darkly tinted. The two plots were not sufficiently connected and the language had...
Reception Eleanor Sleath
Gothicist Devendra P. Varma believed this to be perhaps ES 's best work, both poetic and atmospheric, possessing a talismanic power.
Varma, Devendra P., and Eleanor Sleath. “Introduction”. The Nocturnal Minstrel; or, The Spirit of the Wood, Arno Press, 1972, p. i - xiii.
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Textual Features Eliza Parsons
The story is set in Germany (which at this date was seen in England as the land of romance)
Hoeveler, Diane Long, and Eliza Parsons. “Introduction”. The Castle of Wolfenbach, edited by Diane Long Hoeveler and Diane Long Hoeveler, Valancourt Books, 2007, p. vii - xvii.
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and the heroine, Matilda Weimar, appears to be German, though she turns out to...
Textual Features Eliza Parsons
The heroine is abandoned as a two-year-old on a beach in northern Ireland by a mysterious traveller, together with fine linen marked with an L. and an unexplained number. The locals are Nelly and Dermont...
Textual Production Eleanor Sleath
Sleath's editor Devendra P. Varma spells the title Glenoven.
Varma, Devendra P., and Eleanor Sleath. “Introduction”. The Nocturnal Minstrel; or, The Spirit of the Wood, Arno Press, 1972, p. i - xiii.
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Varma, Devendra P., and Eleanor Sleath. “Introduction”. The Orphan of the Rhine, Folio Press, 1968, p. vii - xi.
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Timeline

1797
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