Gustave Flaubert

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Standard Name: Flaubert, Gustave

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Performance of text Edna O'Brien
Madame Bovary, EOB 's stage adaptation of Flaubert 's novel, was produced at the Palace, Watford.
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research.
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Publishing Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB published The Doctor's Wife serially in Temple Bar; this novel offered an anglicisation of and response to Flaubert 's Madame Bovary.
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. The Doctor’s Wife. Editor Pykett, Lyn, Oxford University Press.
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Reception Willa Cather
This novel poses a challenge both to contemporary and to later conventions of gender morality—a fact reflected in the tendency of commentators to liken it to Flaubert 's Madame Bovary,
Cather, Willa. A Lost Lady. Virago.
cover
than which it...
Textual Features Violet Hunt
VH 's central character here is Phoebe Elles, described by Barbara Belford as a British version of Flaubert 's Madame Bovary.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
108
Phoebe is unhappily married to (and soon leaves) her abusive husband Mortimer; looking...
Textual Features Natalie Clifford Barney
This volume announced the sapphic theme which became central to NCB 's work.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
The poems were inspired by various women—Liane de Pougy , Sarah Bernhardt , Princess Troubetzkoy (Amelia Reeves) , and others—thinly disguised...
Textual Production George Sand
GS earned a remarkable 130,000 francs from this book. Flaubert earned only 3,300 francs for Madame Bovary.
Jack, Belinda. George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large. Vintage.
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Textual Production Anita Brookner
In the early 1980s AB did a good deal of reviewing of literary works for the Times Literary Supplement.
Skinner, John. The Fictions of Anita Brookner: Illusions of Romance. Macmillan.
9-11
In 1988 she edited her own selection, with introduction, of The Stories of Edith Wharton
Textual Production George Sand
During frequent trips to Paris, GS made the acquaintance of admirers who included Gustave Flaubert . She enjoyed a correspondence with Victor Hugo , though the two never met.
Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger.
311, 313, 335
She continued to...
Textual Production Elizabeth Jolley
EJ invoked as an appropriate description of her own motivation, Flaubert 's dictum that writing comes from an inner wound.
Joussen, Ulla. “An Interview with Elizabeth Jolley”. Kunapipi, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 37-43.
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She said of Johnson 's Rasselas and Goethe 's Elective Affinities (both of which...
Textual Production Sybille Bedford
She later mentioned two youthful pieces on social issues involving literature: one on the potential damage done by a cheap popular press, Baudelaire 's view of l'infâmie de l'imprimerie, and the other on the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eva Figes
She considers the drama of ancient Greece and of the Renaissance, setting each in its historical context. After dealing with issues of religious belief, kingship, and the dead, she comes to that of women and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Marjorie Bowen
MB credits British women novelists for modifying the methods of the great European novelists, noting in particular Dorothy Richardson 's perfection of the stream-of-consciousness technique. She draws a contrast between Dorothy Richardson 's Miriam and...

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