Michael Sadleir

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...

RB was presumably white, and was born into an Anglican , upper-middle-class family, with an English father and Irish mother. She grew up at Broughton Hall near Eccleshall in Staffordshire, an Elizabethan manor house...

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...

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

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...

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...

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. In London, Pamela Hansford Johnson called the...

Having completed this novel AM approached her father and said, Papa, I don't know what you will say, but I have been writing a story. His first response was amusement. When he had read...

Stories from Holy Writ (early work published late in HW 's life, but carefully revised by her for the press) rapidly sold 3,500 copies even with practically no reviewing. These stories made Violet Markham

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...

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...

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...

Scholar Michael Sadleir gave a lunch party to celebrate the publication, and was impressed by LR 's ability to make her ancient characters real.

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...

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 and respectable...