Charles Reade

SJB 's review is largely informational. It covers works of fiction including New Grooves by Annie Thomas , A Woman-Hater by Charles Reade , Dr. Edith Romney by Anne Elliot , Doctor Zay by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

EW purchased the magazine from Alexander Strahan , who had decided to sell following the backlash prompted by Charles Reade 's sexually frank novel Griffith Gaunt. Her position as editor of a family magazine...

The novel met with great and instantaneous success, though it was frequently assumed to be the work of Charles Reade . A New York edition appeared that same year, and successive British editions followed...

It had been written in 1866 but was not published for almost fifteen years (perhaps for fear of being sued for libel). One of her other life-writing texts was called Nemesis. She claimed that...

Oliphant develops an extended critique of her chief bugbears, Mary Elizabeth Braddon (the leader of her school), Rhoda Broughton (not by name, but as author of Cometh Up As a Flower),...

The couple's first properly shared home was the Old Rectory Farm, Kidlington, Oxfordshire. They later moved to Ipsden House, also in Oxfordshire (novelist Charles Reade 's former home), where both RL 's children were born.

It was published also in New York. Charles Reade , who was himself at law with Bentley , later persuaded her to change publishers.

They were in time to reap the full force of Margaret Oliphant 's disapproval in her anti-sensation-novel article in Blackwood's. She found it deeply shocking that leading literary journals were praising Rupert Godwin...

Margaret Oliphant 's critique of the sensation novel in 1867 relied heavily on attacking MEB 's reputation. The best she would say was that some of Braddon's works deserved some of their success. Braddon's sole...

On the whole reviewers were enthusiastic (E. S. Dallas began his notice in the Times, George Eliot is as great as ever), but the ending of The Mill on the Floss...

The English novelist Charles Reade , to whom many had attributed this novel, wrote to tell HJhe would have been proud to acknowledge it as his own.

Relaying this account in his biography of JSW , Oliver Bainbridge wrote that she researched, along with the methods of Wilkie Collins, those of her other favourites including Charles Reade , Charles and Henry Kingsley

Bulwer-Lytton in his later years mentored the young Mary Elizabeth Braddon , offering her advice on her writings, often with reference to his own. Their literary friendship lasted until his death. Charles Reade was also...

The American reviews were highly flattering. The reviewer for the Boston Transcript could think of no more powerful work from a woman's hand in the English language, not even George Eliot at her best.

The first volume of this fictional, topical biography, published at the time of the trial, went through five complete and two abridged editions in the year it appeared. It was reprinted at Dublin and Belfast...