Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton.
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Literary responses | George Eliot | GE
began to be remembered quite inaccurately as a humourless and self-righteous preacher, to whom invention was less important than exhortation. Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton. xix Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 362 |
Literary responses | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | George Saintsbury
in 1913 developed an attack on this book as very nearly consummate in badness. . . . a fair example of the worst imitations of Mrs. Radcliffe
and Matthew Lewis
conjointly, though without... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Yonge | This was one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century. Two years after it appeared it was the favourite choice of young officers in hospital during the Crimean War. A guardsman confessed that... |
Friends, Associates | Helen Waddell | Besides Saintsbury
, another important early and lifelong friend of HW
from an older generation was George Pritchard Taylor
, a missionary in India whom she met in 1914 on one of his rare visits... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Helen Waddell | The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes several of HW
's relationships with older men (like Gregory Smith
, George Saintsbury
, and Otto Kyllmann
, chairman of Constable
) as platonic love affairs. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | Helen Waddell | She attended the Victoria School for Girls
in Belfast from 1900, then took a year of private study from 1907 to 1908 before going on to read English (with Latin and French) at Queen's University, Belfast |
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