Émile Zola

Because PB was so interested in her French classes, her mother permitted Mellie to instruct her at their home. Despite their friendship, there was one matter on which Mellie and Phyllis could not agree—the Dreyfus

She knew France and the French language well. Not only did she use France as a setting and French literature as a resource for plots, and subscribe to Rolandi 's French circulating library, but she...

Colette wrote later of the way that a free and solitary childhood and adolescence, with plenty of opportunity to develop self-awareness and without any pressure to self-expression, had shaped her mind before the compulsion to...

In Paris his friend Ivan Turgenev introduced him to Maupassant , Zola , and Daudet , among others.

Imagery of postpartum fluidity, particularly lactation, characterizes the lovers' growing passion and the descriptions of female sexual desire and orgasm. The narrative alternates between a schizoid third-person dialogue and first-person narration as Jane attempts...

By borrowing the title of Émile Zola 's J'accuse, published on 13 January 1898 to uncover the conspiracy against Alfred Dreyfus , PB invoked both the long history of European anti-semitism, and the occasional...

She again set her novel in her fictionalised version of Norwich, Morningquest. Of its three heroines, Angelica makes a moderately successful, though unconventional marriage to a man twenty years her senior to whom she...

The antecedents of Braddon's work were both print and stage melodrama, and as her career progressed her work increasingly reflected the influence of French realists and naturalists: Flaubert , Balzac , and Zola .

When her mother dies leaving her some money, Janet writes to her husband (who still idolises her, but looks down upon her from a mental height and explains things in the simplest possible way, with...

Though ML was familiar with the canonical English Victorian novelists (and, less usually, with Samuel Richardson 's Sir Charles Grandison, to whose great length she alludes with approval), those writers she acknowledged as influences...

Ziska is openly critical of the writings of Zola , while praising those of Lord Byron . It also condemns the hypocrisy and destruction of Western imperialism at the fin de siècle: We take possession...

OS 's belated preface explains her anti-realist method, directed against the influence of Zola and Tolstoy , whose predictability she disliked. Here nothing can be prophesied. There is a strange coming and going of feet...

FS devotes a great deal of space to mining operations and to relations between the Dutch and the English settlers. After briefly describing the underground part of the De Beers Company diamond mines in Kimberley...

The Athenæum review was lukewarm at best, since the reviewer found the character of Strickland almost intolerably irritating.It summed up the work as a fairly well-written book of the better modern fashion [in contrast with...

During her lifetime CY was ranked as a serious novelist with Austen , Trollope , Balzac , and Zola . Contemporaries like Louisa Alcott , Margaret Oliphant , Ellen Wood , and Rhoda Broughton made...