Pamela K. Gilbert

Standard Name: Gilbert, Pamela K.

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Literary responses Ouida
Critic Pamela Gilbert points to the importance of this book, and specifically of the character Cigarette, in the history of nineteenth-century fiction. Although Ouida later explicitly disapproved of the New Woman movement, Gilbert thinks it...
Literary responses Ouida
The Athenæum criticized the novel for its monotonous misery and suggested that the author should have left religious speculation alone instead of using the novel to insist that Christianity as a Religion of Love is...
Publishing Rhoda Broughton
It was revised, expanded, and then issued in two volumes by 20 April 1867 (several months before the earlier-written novel). It reached a second edition late that year. A scholarly edition by Pamela K. Gilbert
Textual Features Ouida
In this work Ouida uses an incantatory, lyrical, biblical style to give an effect of timelessness; though the tale opens in Christian Normandy, she frequently invokes the Greek gods. Her protagonist, Folle-Farine (Crazy Flour...
Textual Features Ouida
The collection included essays on The New Woman and Female Suffrage, the first of which provides an oft-quoted passage: there are conspicuous at the present two words which designate unmitigated bores: The Workingman and...

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Texts

Tromp, Marlene et al., editors. Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context. State University of New York Press, 2000.
Johnson, Heidi. “Electra-fying the Female Sleuth: Detecting the Father in Eleanors Victory and Thou Art the ManBeyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context, edited by Marlene Tromp et al., State University of New York Press, 2000, pp. 255-75.
Gilbert, Pamela K. “Ouida and the other New Woman”. Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question, edited by Nicola Diane Thompson, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 170-88.