Carey, Rosa Nouchette. ’No Friend Like a Sister’. Macmillan.
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Literary responses | Rosa Nouchette Carey | This book was praised by the Pall Mall Gazette and New York Home Journalas sane and healthy, sweet and dainty. Carey, Rosa Nouchette. ’No Friend Like a Sister’. Macmillan. last pages |
Reception | Caroline Clive | This poem was considered one of CC
's best works. It was praised by Mary Russell Mitford
, and George Saintsbury
noted its originality Partridge, Eric Honeywood. “Mrs. Archer Clive”. Literary Sessions, Scholartis Press. 123 |
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 |
Textual Production | T. S. Eliot | The first number of The Criterion appeared in October 1922, edited by TSE
: its title (invented by Vivien Eliot
) declared its intention of assuming the authority of literary judgement. This first issue included... |
Literary responses | Harriett Jay | In the Academy, George Saintsbury
praised the novel as an excellent piece of work, although he thought it too long. He declared: [h]ow [Morna] escapes and returns to Eagle Island, and how poetical justice... |
Literary responses | Mary Leapor | ML
was by no means forgotten after her first discovery. She was praised in John Duncombe
's Feminiadand accorded the largest share of space in Poems by Eminent Ladies.William Cowper
, who... |
Literary responses | Harriet Lee | Byron
praised the Canterbury Tales, but in 1913George Saintsbury
asserted that Byron had done so either irresponsibly or impishly. They were, he said, not exactly bad, but also as far as possible from... |
Literary responses | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | George Saintsbury
found the title ridiculous and the novel worthy of the title. He blamed it for blocks of spiritless and commonplace historic narrative, and for such anachronisms the gentle and elegant heroine being educated... |
Literary responses | Constance Naden | George Saintsbury
, writing in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, grouped CN
as a poet with Mathilde Blind
, Amy Levy
, and Michael Field
. He called her writing a... |
Literary responses | Anna Maria Porter | AMP
was, with her sister, one of those praised by John O'Keeffe
in his poem Female Authors, Being an Answer to a Lady, who asserted, that by transmigration the soul of Shakespeare
lived in the... |
Literary responses | A. Mary F. Robinson | The novel was not well received by critics. In the Academy, George Saintsbury
wrote that he could not honestly say that Arden discovers much vocation for novel-writing. Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press. 121 |
Literary responses | Regina Maria Roche | George Saintsbury
wrote in 1913, remembering RMR
's once great popularity, that her books were best read, as they were for generations, in late childhood or early youth. Even then an intelligent boy or girl... |
Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | Smith's Manon had an indifferent reception and weak sales. Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Works of Charlotte Smith, edited by Michael Garner et al., Pickering and Chatto, p. xxix - xxxvii. xxxi Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Works of Charlotte Smith, edited by Michael Garner et al., Pickering and Chatto, p. xxix - xxxvii. xxx |
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 |
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... |
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