Her family, in which literary ability was almost the norm, was Jewish in origin, and her parents practised Reformed Judaism. Commentator Linda Gertner Zatlin
finds in her acculturation bordering on assimilation,
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but she remained...
Literary responses
Julia Frankau
The novel caused scandal both to Jewish readers, who judged it anti-semitic, and to gentile readers, who found its treatment of sex outside marriage too outspoken.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Among quoted reviews of A Babe in Bohemia, two call the author he, one she, and one he or she. The Observer said that the bitterness of the book was redeemed...
Literary responses
Julia Frankau
Marie Belloc Lowndes
thought this a strange, powerful story, but liked it less than some of JF
's earlier work.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. Macmillan, 1946.
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The Times obituary on JF
referred to this novel's brilliant portrait and caricature of...
Literary responses
Julia Frankau
Linda Gertner Zatlin
reads this novel as another expression by JF
of her scorn of the immigrant Jew.
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Reception
Celia Moss
Critic Linda Gertner Zatlin
similarly suggests that the Mosses' description of Jewish custom, in deliberately vague terms, with a stress on its exotic Easternness rather than in any opposition to Victorian Christianity,
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depicts Jewish...
Textual Features
Charlotte Montefiore
Here CM
depicts noble and devout Jewish characters who refuse to sacrifice their religious heritage for monetary rewards. She occasionally describes Jewish religious ceremonies and formal rituals, but Linda Gertner Zatlin
argues that her frequent...
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Texts
Zatlin, Linda Gertner. The Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Jewish Novel. Twayne, 1981.