William Leonard Courtney

The sisters were in general popular in Oxford society, but Rhoda, although at first she dined regularly at the table of scholar Benjamin Jowett ,, was then ostracized in some...

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...

In the Daily Telegraph, W. L. Courtney too found the novel melodramatic. Still, he praised EFB 's delineation of exceptional and eccentric traits in her characters, and the strong and refreshing vein of...

Harold Hannyngton Child , reviewing for the Times Literary Supplement, reported that this was quite unlike most novels of nihilism, which represent the obvious laced with the sensational. ELV , he wrote, succeeded in...

Some early reviewers detected, despite the surface frivolity, a melancholic vein in her work:She wants you to mop your eyes, but your handkerchief should be of ample size, for while you weep she would...

Two things about this novel gave offence initially and had a long-term effect on its reputation: its treating the nasty topic of deformity, and its involving the hero emotionally with three women (his mother as...

MBL conceived the idea for this plot at a dinner party, hearing a fellow guest speak of a pair of lodging-house keepers who believed that the Ripper had stayed a night with them. She wrote...