Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Emma Marshall
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Standard Name: Marshall, Emma
Birth Name: Emma Martin
Married Name: Emma Marshall
EM
's output as a writer during the latter part of the nineteenth century amounted to almost two hundred volumes: a rate of production necessitated by the bank crash which lost her husband his job.
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900.
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She began with fiction for children, but branched out into historical romances and cheaply produced penny novels. All her fiction has a strongly religious or didactic tone. Much of it is local: the occasion for her writing, particularly of historical novels, was often a place she knew well or had visited, and its connections with figures known to history. She also wrote for periodicals, and produced private occasional poetry, letters, and journals.
Her mother was didactic and historical novelist Emma Marshall
, whose literary income supported her family after her husband's bank failed. Emma was also a charitable prison visitor and a supporter of women's higher education....
Fictionalization
Mary Penington
Novelist Emma Marshall
made MP
a character in the first of her historical romances, published in 1880, two years after a financial crash added a profit motive to her hitherto purely moral and didactic writing...
Fictionalization
Margaret Hoby
Historical novelist Emma Marshall
depicted MH
and her three marriages in Eventide Light; or, passages in the life of Dame Margaret Hoby, only child and sole heiress of Sir Arthur Dakyns, 1890.
Fictionalization
Hannah More
The death of such a revered character produced an instant backlash. Thomas de Quincey
(who had visited HM
unwillingly as a young man) attacked both her literary works and her character in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine...
Fictionalization
Mary Ferrar
The hold exerted on T. S. Eliot
's imagination by Little Gidding seems to have been produced by the idea of the community, not by their texts. His poem Little Gidding gives little hint that...
Fictionalization
Lady Rachel Russell
LRR
seems to have set a low value on her personal, religious writings. To a relation who apparently hoped to read them, she wrote, Pray, my Lord, be not in care about my writings. Indeed...
Friends, Associates
Lucas Malet
LM
was a friend for much of her life of the novelist Emma Marshall
, who was also a friend of her mother. On Marshall's death in 1899 she wrote: The thought of her has...
Literary responses
Lucas Malet
Emma Marshall
was a little disappointed with this after Mrs. Lorimer, but acknowledged that the closing scene was great and wonderfully done, and that few literary scenes could challenge it in power.
CMT
, whose works sold very well, was regarded as a major female author during the mid-Victorian period. She was incensed when in 1882 some one wrote a sketch of her life, and requested her...
Textual Production
Eliza Lynn Linton
In 1897 ELL
contributed a section on George Eliot
to the collaborative Women Novelists of Queen Victoria
's Reign—which a fellow-contributor, Emma Marshall
, thought detestable.
qtd. in
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900.
305
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Textual Production
Lucas Malet
LM
published her first novel, Mrs. Lorimer, a Sketch in Black and White, under a pseudonym to keep her work separate from that of her father or uncle. Her friend and fellow-novelist Emma Marshall
Timeline
1642: Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici (A Physician's...
Writing climate item
1642
Sir Thomas Browne
's Religio Medici (A Physician's Faith) was most imperfectly and surreptitiously printed (in the words of the title-page of next year's authorised edition).
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
July 1889: Women's Suffrage: A Reply appeared in the...
Building item
July 1889
Women's Suffrage: A Reply appeared in the Fortnightly Review to counter Mary Augusta Ward
's Appeal Against Female Suffrage in the previous month's Nineteenth Century.
“Women’s Suffrage: A Reply”. Fortnightly Review, Vol.
52
, July 1889, pp. 123-39.
Texts
Marshall, Emma. A Lily among Thorns. Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1878.
Marshall, Emma et al. Cross Purposes. Griffith, Farran, Browne, 1899.
Marshall, Emma. Heights and Valleys. Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1872.
Marshall, Emma. Helen’s Diary. Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1865.
Marshall, Emma. In Colston’s Days. Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Marshall, Emma. In the East Country with Sir Thomas Browne. Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1885.
Marshall, Emma. Joanna’s Inheritance. Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1877.
Marshall, Emma. Life’s Aftermath. Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1876.
Marshall, Emma. Memories of Troublous Times. Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1880.
Marshall, Emma. Millicent Legh. Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1866.
Marshall, Emma. Mrs. Mainwaring’s Journal. Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1874.
Marshall, Emma, and J. Abbott Pasquier. The Happy Days at Fernbank. James Hogg and Sons, 1861.
Marshall, Emma. Thoughts on Womens Suffrage. J. W. Arrowsmith, 1886.
Marshall, Emma. Three Little Brothers. James Nisbet, 1875.
Marshall, Emma. Three Little Sisters. James Nisbet, 1871.
Marshall, Emma. Three Little Sisters. D. D. Merrill, 1875.
Oliphant, Margaret et al. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign. Hurst and Blackett, 1897.