These first two volumes were not well-received. The Athenæum reviewer suggested that the dust of the road is ill-exchanged by Miss Costello for the dust of the library.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
857 (1844): 287
The ensuing two volumes...
Leisure and Society
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Socially MEB
downplayed her status as an author, aided by the fact that as Mrs Maxwell—a name she went by even before marriage—she could move in society incognito. To this end, she attempted to...
Leisure and Society
Eliza Lynn Linton
She enjoyed going to and hosting prominent literary and social receptions. Her guests included a wide range of people: popular writers such as Rudyard Kipling
, Marie Corelli
, and Frank Harris
; luminaries of...
Textual Features
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Art here makes another of its frequent appearances in MEB
's fiction: the character of Mr Skith, Royal Academician, is modelled on her friend William Frith
.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
175
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Naomi Royde-Smith
These are cheerfully celebratory in tone. Paddington Station, Travellers and Fashions: An Unwritten Romance ends by quoting official directives not to allow Queen Victoria
to be alarmed by knowing the speed of the royal...
Timeline
By 4 March 1882: Jane Ellen Panton's novel Jane Caldecott:...
Women writers item
By 4 March 1882
Jane Ellen Panton
's novel Jane Caldecott: A Story of Cross Purposes was published with a dedication to her father
.
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Athenæum. J. Lection.
2836 (1882): 279
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