Émile Zola

Contemporary reviews of Anna Lombard were largely, and somewhat predictably, condemnatory: the New York Times, for instance, found it to be entitled to be called a bold, or rather a brazen book, but it...

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...

One of the great practioners of literary realism, he shifted the European novel significantly towards naturalism. His influence ranged far, from literary friends such as Émile Zola to writers in English, including Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Henry Vizetelly , a publisher associated with progressive thinking of various kinds—he went to prison for publishing translations of Zola —promoted this novel by emphasis on its being a picture of Jewish life.

JF 's Times obituary compared this novel favourably with Zola 's Le rêve.

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...

Borrowing a famous title from Zola , GG issued through a London publisher J'Accuse: The Dark Side of Nice, in which he accused the mayor of Nice in southern France, along with other...

Her publisher was the notorious firm of Henry Vizetelly , who was to be jailed the year after this for publishing English translations of Zola . Vizetelly arranged for MH 's novel to be translated...

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

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...

This book deals very largely with her French extended family, her visits to France as a young adult, and her French social circles. She meant it to dispel certain false ideas, English rather than American...

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...

Thomas Hardy told LM after reading this novel that she was one of the few authors of the other sex who are not afraid of logical consequences. He also said that the wages of...

VM published Lot Barrow, a naturalist novel in the tradition of George Moore and Émile Zola .

A second edition appeared a year later, and a paperback edition in 2008. This collection contains Parkes's reminiscences of George Eliot , Anna Jameson , Mary Howitt , Georgiana Fullerton , and Catherine Booth ...