Michael Sadleir

Standard Name: Sadleir, Michael

Connections

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Cultural formation	Rhoda Broughton	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...
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...
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	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. Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch. 213 In London, Pamela Hansford Johnson called the...
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	Anne Manning	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. Oliphant, Margaret et al. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign. Hurst and Blackett. 212 His first response was amusement. When he had read...
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, p. vii - xvii. viii and respectable...
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. 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	Helen Waddell	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. Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable. 204 These stories made Violet Markham
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. 81 Michael Sadleir (one of several to suggest that RB 's best work was in the single-volume novel rather than the triple-decker), wrote...
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	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...

Timeline

January 1833

The first issues appeared of two Irish monthly periodicals: the successful Dublin University Magazine and the short-lived Dublin University Review, and Quarterly Magazine.

17 November 1958

The sale began at Sotheby's of the collection of first editions built up by the bibliographer Michael Sadleir , who had recently died.

Texts

Sadleir, Michael. Bulwer: A Panorama. Constable, 1931.

Sadleir, Michael. “Dublin University Magazine: Its History, Contents and Bibliography”. The Bibliographical Society of Ireland, pp. 59-81.

Sadleir, Michael. Excursions in Victorian Bibliography. Chaundy and Cox, 1922.

Sadleir, Michael. Things Past. Constable, 1944.

Sadleir, Michael. XIX Century Fiction. Constable; University of California Press, 1951.