H. Gustav Klaus

Standard Name: Klaus, H. Gustav

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
death Ellen Johnston
A woman who was probably the factory worker and autobiographer EJ died at the Barony or Barnhill Poorhouse at Springburn near Glasgow.
The death of a Helen Johnston at this place is recorded for...
Reception Margaret Harkness
MH 's socialist novels have begun to be republished since the mid 1980s. Until the 1990s academic interest in her was limited to Engels's famous letter to her and a few chapters in books on...
Reception Ellen Johnston
EJ 's remarkable literary accomplishment has for most of the time since her death been as unmarked as her grave. She was anthologised a few times between 1877 and 1987 in collections of Scottish and...

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Texts

Klaus, H. Gustav. Factory Girl: Ellen Johnston and Working-Class Poetry in Victorian Scotland. Peter Lang, 1998.
Goode, John. “Margaret Harkness and the Socialist Novel”. The Socialist Novel in Britain: Towards the Recovery of a Tradition, edited by H. Gustav Klaus, Harvester Press, 1982, pp. 45-66.
Klaus, H. Gustav. “Socialist Fiction in the 1930s: Some Preliminary Observations”. The 1930s: A Challenge to Orthodoxy, edited by John Lucas, Harvester, 1978, pp. 13-41.
Klaus, H. Gustav, editor. The Rise of Socialist Fiction 1880-1914. St Martin’s Press, 1987, pp. 28-48.