Stephen Crane

Elizabeth Oxenbridge (later Lady Tyrwhit) was born at a manor called Brede Place (formerly Forde Place), at the village of Brede in East Sussex, into a family of five children (as well as an...

Living with his grandfather Ford Madox Brown after his father's death, he met many literary great Victorians at an early age. During his early married life he got to know H. G. Wells , Joseph Conrad

In a Book Buyer article of January 1897, American novelist and short story writer Stephen Crane called this novel Ouida's Masterpiece and a song of the brave. He particularly liked the character Cigarette, a figure...

Writing in the year of its publication, Max Beerbohm argued that the reason for the unusually cordial reception accorded this novel was not (as Ouida's newly warm critics had suggested) that she had...

In An Appreciation of Ouida, Street singled out for praise her genuine and passionate love of beauty . . . and a genuine and passionate hatred of injustice and oppression. Although he noted that...

Three essays appeared, all by male critics, commending Ouida 's novels: by G. S. Street in The Yellow Book, Stephen Crane in Book Buyer, and Max Beerbohm in the Saturday Review.

Here she examines Stephen Crane , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Ezra Pound , and W. H. Auden , as examples of the role and operation of poets or fiction writers who also produce criticism.

WC 's essay on Stephen Crane 's Wounds in the Rain, written in January 1926, exemplifies (like her earlier essay on Defoe) her willingness to sound critical even of canonical names.