Gustave Flaubert

Remembered largely for his poetry, whose early publication provoked a major crisis in censorship, CB also wrote important prose, especially criticism, and translated Edgar Allan Poe 's stories into French. As a literary and art...

Madame Bovary, EOB 's stage adaptation of Flaubert 's novel, was produced at the Palace, Watford.

MEB published The Doctor's Wife serially in Temple Bar; this novel offered an anglicisation of and response to Flaubert 's Madame Bovary.

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, than which it...

This volume announced the sapphic theme which became central to NCB 's work. The poems were inspired by various women—Liane de Pougy , Sarah Bernhardt , Princess Troubetzkoy (Amelia Reeves) , and others—thinly disguised...

VH 's central character here is Phoebe Elles, described by Barbara Belford as a British version of Flaubert 's Madame Bovary. Phoebe is unhappily married to (and soon leaves) her abusive husband Mortimer; looking...

EA translated, from French to English, an edition of the Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev ’s letters to his friends in France, which included Gustave Flaubert , Émile Zola , Guy de Maupassant , and the...

GS earned a remarkable 130,000 francs from this book. Flaubert earned only 3,300 francs for Madame Bovary.

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. She continued to...

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...

In the early 1980s AB did a good deal of reviewing of literary works for the Times Literary Supplement. In 1988 she edited her own selection, with introduction, of The Stories of Edith Wharton

EJ invoked as an appropriate description of her own motivation, Flaubert 's dictum that writing comes from an inner wound. She said of Johnson 's Rasselas and Goethe 's Elective Affinities (both of which...

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...

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...