Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton first Baron Lytton
This was among his most controversial novels; W. Fraser Rae
later praised it in his attack on Mary Elizabeth Braddon
's sensation fiction, and George Sala
cited it as a laudable antecedent in her defence.
Rae, W. Fraser. “Sensation Novelists: Miss Braddon”. North British Review, Vol.
43
, 1865, pp. 180-04.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
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Reception
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
W. Fraser Rae
, in the North British Review, anonymously pronounced that MEB
had temporarily succeeded in making the literature of the Kitchen the favourite reading of the Drawing room.
Rae, W. Fraser. “Sensation Novelists: Miss Braddon”. North British Review, Vol.
43
, 1865, pp. 180-04.
204
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
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Texts
Rae, W. Fraser. “Sensation Novelists: Miss Braddon”. North British Review, Vol.
43
, 1865, pp. 180-04.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, and Frances Sheridan. Sheridan’s Plays, now printed as he wrote them, and his mother’s unpublished comedy, A Journey to Bath. Editor Rae, W. Fraser, D. Nutt, 1902.