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Family and Intimate relationships | Pauline Johnson | PJ
's mother, Emily Susanna Howells
, was a Quaker born in Bristol, England. She had come to Canada from Ohio to visit a sister and to escape an over-strict father. She was a cousin... |
Friends, Associates | Rebecca Harding Davis | Early in her career, RHD
was in contact with William Dean Howells
, assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly, where she articulated her theory of the commonplace in the late 1860s. Harris, Sharon M. Rebecca Harding Davis and American Realism. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. 10 |
Friends, Associates | Sara Jeannette Duncan | In Washington, amid many social pleasures, SJD
met Frances Hodgson Burnett
and the columnist Abigail Dodge
. She also developed a friendship with William Dean Howells
and his family which continued sporadically for many years... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Two hundred people celebrated HBS
's seventy-first birthday, including Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
, Oliver Wendell Holmes
, and William Dean Howells
. Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994. 393-4 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rebecca Harding Davis | Jean Pfaelzer
has admired its world of complex moral choices. qtd. in Pfaelzer, Jean. Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. 236 |
Literary responses | Rebecca Harding Davis | An early review in The Nation (which also discussed RHD
's fiction in general) again criticized her for her unpleasant characters, but conceded that though she shows bad taste in various ways, or perhaps because... |
Literary responses | Constance Smedley | The Times noted with approval that the book was well-balanced, evincing sympathy for both sides of its private-public struggle, and pleasurable as well as thought-provoking. Smedley, Constance. Commoners’ Rights. Chatto and Windus, 1912. prelims |
Literary responses | Constance Smedley | Though Liberals welcomed the pageant, it was widely condemned by the County or local landowners as socialistic. Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus, 1912, x, 416 pp. 203, 206 |
Author summary | Sara Jeannette Duncan | SJD
was a Canadian journalist, poet, and novelist whose work spans the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her writing generally features characters who fail to live up to their own potential, such as Lorne... |
Publishing | Pauline Johnson | PJ
published In the Shadows, a canoeingpoem, in The Week after it had been rejected by her mother's cousin William Dean Howells
, then editor at Harper's. Keller, Betty. Pauline: A Biography of Pauline Johnson. Douglas and McIntyre, 1981. 55 |
Publishing | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Stephen
(later VW
) published a review of W. D. Howells
's The Son of Royal Langbrith on the women's page of the Guardian (not the then Manchester Guardian but a weekly paper for clergymen). Woolf, Virginia. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Editors McNeillie, Andrew and Stuart Nelson Clarke, Hogarth Press, 1986–2011, 6 vols. 1: 5 Woolf, Virginia. “Introduction; Editorial Note”. The Essays of Virginia Woolf, edited by Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press, 1986–1994, pp. vols. 1 - 4: various pages. xii |
Reception | Rebecca Harding Davis | This book was widely reviewed and highly praised, except that the The Independent complained about its refusal to mete out poetic justice to its characters according to their deserving. qtd. in Harris, Sharon M. Rebecca Harding Davis and American Realism. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. 267 |
Reception | Susan Ferrier | SF
's protagonists were included with those of Jane Austen
, Frances Burney
, Amelia Opie
, Ann Radcliffe
and others in W. D. Howells
's Heroines of Fiction, 1901. |
Reception | Eudora Welty | In an appreciative review, V. S. Pritchett
described Edna Earle's monologic narrative as remarkable for its headlong garrulity and also for its preposterous silences and changes of subject at the crises of the tale.EW |
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