Aside from the title story, this volume contains Forty Years Ago, A Sea-Side Story, Harold's Wife, and Margaret. The last of these stories was reproduced in Kate Flint
's 1996 anthology Victorian Love Stories.
Flint, Kate, editor. Victorian Love Stories. Oxford University Press.
Anthologization
Flora Annie Steel
From this Kate Flint
selected Uma Himãvutee to include in Victorian Love Stories, 1996.
Anthologization
George Egerton
GE
's A Little Grey Glove, written in 1893, is included by Harold Orel
in Victorian Short Stories 2: The Trials of Love, 1990, and by Kate Flint
in Victorian Love Stories: An Oxford Anthology, 1996.
Scholar Kate Flint in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls GP
's Times obituary a remarkably strong anti-feminist polemic, which takes the view that Paston's outmoded stress on women's issues was responsible for her...
Literary responses
Augusta Webster
Portraits, a sustained feminist engagement with the form of the dramatic monologue, remains AW
's most studied work. While clearly influenced by male practitioners, Browning
in particular, her poems operate quite differently from many...
Literary responses
Dorothy Boulger
Kate Flint
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls this a stilted historical romance.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Literary responses
Rhoda Broughton
Critic Kate Flint
, in an entry on RB
for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, describes her style as notable for its directness of tone. She often uses a first-person narrator, who addresses...
Literary responses
Mary Angela Dickens
Kate Flint
has claimed the story is a justifiably angry feminist polemic against men who seduce women and then try to argue their way out of it.
Flint, Kate, editor. “Introduction”. Victorian Love Stories: An Oxford Anthology, Oxford University Press, p. vii - vix.
MAD
's fiction appears in anthologies produced during a recuperative phase of feminist literary studies in the late 1990s. Kate Flint
includes her An Idyll of an Omnibus, a story from Some Women's Ways...
Textual Features
Laurence Alma-Tadema
The stories are linked by their various associations with a little ivory crucifix which appears in each. They therefore stand close to the tale-told-by-inanimate-object genre, though here a human narrator summons the scenes at which...
Textual Features
Rhoda Broughton
Critics have pointed to a range of influences and allusions in this novel. Kate Flint
has suggested that the representation of the sorrowful-eyed aesthete Francis Chaloner was a satiric jab at Oscar Wilde
, who...
Textual Features
George Eliot
This is unique among GE
's fiction in having a first-person male narrator, Latimer, who is also the only one among her characters to deal in the occult. In his case it is the gift...
Timeline
1851: French medical researcher Charles-Edouard...
Building item
1851
French medical researcher Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard
experimented with the effects of blood transfusion on the responsiveness of nerves in human corpses.
Texts
Flint, Kate. “’ . . . as a rule, I does not mean I’: Personal identity and the Victorian woman poet”. Rewriting the Self: Histories from the Renaissance to the Present, edited by Roy Porter, Routledge, 1997, pp. 156-66.
Dickens, Mary Angela. “An Idyll of an Omnibus”. Victorian Love Stories: An Oxford Anthology, edited by Kate Flint, Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 410-22.
