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Cultural formation | Eleanor Sleath | ES
belonged to the presumably white, English upper-middle class or minor gentry. She was baptised a member of the Anglican Church
, though gothicists Michael Sadleir
and Devendra P. Varma
, who had different theories... |
Cultural formation | Rhoda Broughton | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rhoda Broughton | RB
left no evidence as to her possible sexual orientation or erotic relationships. A number of critics (notably Michael Sadleir
) have suggested that an early unhappy love affair prompted her frequently cynical representations of... |
Friends, Associates | Storm Jameson | Michael Sadleir
first took Jameson to the Thursday evening salons hosted by Naomi Royde-Smith
at her Queen's Gate home. These gatherings were attended by Rose Macaulay
, Arnold Bennett
, Edward Marsh
, and Frank Swinnerton |
Literary responses | Marjorie Bowen | In his introduction to the book, Michael Sadleir
commends its descriptive detail and period expression. He suggests that MB
's reading of human nature and of the capacity for pity produces a realistic, alarming, sinister... |
Literary responses | Helen Waddell | HW
treasured a letter in which Michael Sadleir
responded to her novel, telling her he found it hard to write without hyperbole. Of course I expected great things, but nothing—nothing approaching what I found. It... |
Literary responses | Marjorie Bowen | MB
was admired in her own day by others who prided themselves on the popular touch in their writing: Mark Twain
, Walter de la Mare
, Compton Mackenzie
, and Hugh Walpole
, who... |
Literary responses | Laura Riding | Scholar Michael Sadleir
gave a lunch party to celebrate the publication, and was impressed by LR
's ability to make her ancient characters real. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books, 2005. 295 He was agreeably surprised to learn that one of Riding's... |
Literary responses | Rhoda Broughton | The Athenæum, describing Belinda as RB
's worst novel, noted a similarity of her central couple to Dorothea and Casaubon in George Eliot
's Middlemarch. It deemed Eliot's characterisation decidedly superior, maintaning that... |
Literary responses | Eliza Parsons | Most published comment on EP
has been confined to her gothic novels, and most gothicists (Montague Summers
and Devendra P. Varma
, for instance) have treated her grudgingly: less than mediocre Hoeveler, Diane Long, and Eliza Parsons. “Introduction”. The Castle of Wolfenbach, edited by Diane Long Hoeveler and Diane Long Hoeveler, Valancourt Books, 2007, p. vii - xvii. viii |
Literary responses | Rhoda Broughton | This novel received a favourable review in The Pall Mall Gazette. Wood, Marilyn. Rhoda Broughton: Profile of a Novelist. Paul Watkins, 1993. 81 |
Literary responses | Rhoda Broughton | Sadleir
, noting the autobiographical element in this novel's subject-matter, judged that it eschews the cynicism and self-mockery of A Beginner in favour of a deliberate plunge into the ardours and agonies of a distant... |
Literary responses | Mary Ann Browne | As it began its course of posthumous publication, the Dublin University Magazine praised MAB
for staying out of the masculine fields of analysis and abstract thought. This set a tone for later comments: as for... |
Literary responses | F. Tennyson Jesse | The New Yorker described the letters as having vigour, clarity, humour and elegance, and found FTJ
and her husband a tough pair of gentle writers. qtd. in Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch, 1984. 213 |
Literary responses | Anne Manning |