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Books on: victorian author

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Secret Selves: Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography

Book by Oliver S. Buckton; University of North Carolina Press, 1998

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Autobiography, Confession In Literature, Desire In Literature, English Prose Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, Gay Men's Writings, English--History And Criticism, Gay Men--Great Britain--Biography--History And Criticism, Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901--Historiography, Homosexuality And Literature--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Male Authors, English--19th Century--Biography--History And Criticism

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...cultural situation of the author and the status of his or her...in tracing the history of Victorian homosexual confession, because...and textual authority of the Victorian male author. If, as Smith argues...culturally privileged as male authors. Rather, it is to seek out...
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As We Were: A Victorian Peep Show

Book by E. F. Benson; Longmans, Green, 1930

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Authors--Correspondence, Reminiscences, Etc, England--Social Life And Customs

Collections: History, Entire Library

AS WE WERE A VICTORIAN PEEP SHOW By E. F. BENSON AUTHOR OF "DODO," "SIR FRANCIS DRAKE," ETC. LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO MDCCCCXXX
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The Life and Works of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Victorian Feminist Writer

Book by Lori Duin Kelly; Whitston, 1983

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Authors, American--19th Century--Biography, Feminism And Literature--United States--History--19th Century, Feminists--United States--Biography, Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart--1844-1911

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...women still in the home who, in effect, freely subscribed to and rigorously celebrated the Victorian ideal of womanhood. Mrs. A. J. Graves, author of Woman in America: Being an Examination Into the Moral and Intellectual Condition of American...
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A Victorian Album: Some Lady Novelists of the Period

Book by Lucy Poate Stebbins; Columbia University Press, 1946

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English Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, English Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Women And Literature--Great Britain--History--19th Century

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...than to act. Perhaps the Victorian reader suspected that George...The third volume of a Victorian novel was always the most difficult for the author to handle and usually the...ideal gentleman of many Victorian ladies. The reader had...
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Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture

Book by Cynthia Scheinberg; Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Aguilar, Grace--1816-1847--Religion, Browning, Elizabeth Barrett--1806-1861--Religion, Christian Poetry, English--19th Century--History And Criticism, Christianity And Literature--England--History--19th Century, English Poetry--19th Century--History And Criticism, English Poetry--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, English Poetry--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Jewish Poetry--History And Criticism, Jewish Women--Great Britain--Intellectual Life, Jews In Literature, Judaism And Literature--England, Levy, Amy--1861-1889--Religion, Religious Poetry, English--History And Criticism, Rossetti, Christina Georgina--1830-1894--Religion, Women And Literature--England--History--19th Century

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...this figure, see my Victorian Poetry and Religious...Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry. 10 For more...12 G. B. Tennyson, Victorian Devotional Poetry, 69...Stopford Brooke was the author of numerous books of...

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Journal Articles on: victorian author

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Dickens's Public Readings and the Victorian Author

Journal article by Susan L. Ferguson; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 41, 2001

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Authors, English--Conduct of life, Dickens, Charles--Conduct of life, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Oral reading--Social aspects

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...physical presence of the author down to "the flower...suggestion that the authors presence on the stage...novel served, for Victorian readers, primarily...and challenging the Victorian tendency to associate narrator and author. Alison Byerly argues...essential to the comfort of Victorian audiences, critical...to those among the Victorians who were uncomfortable...
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The New Zealand Minstrelsy (1852): William Golder and the Beginnings of a National Literature in New Zealand

Journal article by Brian Opie; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 44, 2006

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Authors, New Zealand, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age), Golder, William--Authorship, Golder, William--Criticism and interpretation, New Zealand writers, Poets, The New Zealand Minstrelsy (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Victorian period literature, 1832-1901

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...this volume: In appearing again as an author, it is not, I confess, without some...pp. 148-153. On the cottage in Victorian literature and imagination, see George...Cottage Controversy," in Nature and the Victorian Imagination, ed. U. C Knoepflmacher...
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The Gothic Heart of Victorian Serial Fiction

Journal article by Julia Mccord Chavez; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 50, 2010

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Authors--Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Analysis, Gothic literature--Analysis, Gothic literature--Influence, Ruskin, John--Criticism and interpretation, Victorian period literature, 1832-1901--Analysis, Writers--Criticism and interpretation

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...open-endedness of the Victorian serial creates the conditions...of regularity, the Victorian serial--even the...unprofitable to both author and reader." (1...elasticity necessary for an authors fullest development...composition that allows its author to outdo him or herself...the actualities of the Victorian publishing world. While...
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"Mimic Sorrows": Masochism and the Gendering of Pain in Victorian Melodrama

Journal article by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 35, 2003

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Authors, English--Works, East Lynne (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Lady Audley's Secret (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Masochism--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Pain--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

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...Masochism and the Gendering of Pain in Victorian Melodrama. by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman Melodrama...masochism as it functions in two popular Victorian melodramas: Ellen Woods East Lynne...which focuses on tensions within the Victorian middle-class home rather than conflicts...
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"The Fertilising Conflict of Individualities": H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia, John Stuart Mill's on Liberty, and the Victorian Tradition of Liberalism

Journal article by Steven Mclean; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 43, 2007

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A Modern Utopia (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Authors--Works, Mill, John Stuart--Works, On Liberty (Mill, John Stuart) (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation, Victorian values--Analysis, Wells, H.G.--Works, Writers--Works

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...Mills on Liberty, and the Victorian Tradition of Liberalism...understates the complexity of the authors work. Hence Wells is often...Wells with the tradition of Victorian liberalism exemplified in...within the tradition of classic Victorian liberalism in his theorising...

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Magazine Articles on: victorian author

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A Forgotten Victorian Author and the Society He Knew

Magazine article by Eric Ford; Contemporary Review, Vol. 275, September 1999

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Authors, English--Criticism, interpretation, etc., English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Fenn, George Manville--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Industrial development--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

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A FORGOTTEN VICTORIAN AUTHOR AND THE SOCIETY HE KNEW by Eric Ford...from the fiction of the period. The Victorian age in Britain is particularly well...standpoint. Who, for example, depicts Victorian low life better than Dickens, illuminates...
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Flashman and the Victorian Social Conscience

Magazine article by Allan Ramsay; Contemporary Review, Vol. 282, June 2003

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Authors--Behavior, Authors--Works, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age), Fraser, George MacDonald--Behavior, Fraser, George MacDonald--Works, Social classes--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Flashman and the Victorian social conscience...the fighting, the author has an eye for the...prejudice on the authors part as opposed...largely due to the authors careful research...quotations. (The author provides footnotes...of us, even the author, might be guilty...after all. With the Victorians one never knows...
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From a Past Contemporary: Three Victorian Novelists

Magazine article by Amelia Edwards; Contemporary Review, Vol. 265, August 1994

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Authors, English--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Dickens, Charles--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Novelists--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Prose literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Thackeray, W.M.--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Trollope, Anthony--Criticism, interpretation, etc., United Kingdom--History, 1837-1901 (Victorian era)

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...past contemporary: three Victorian novelists by Amelia Edwards...she wrote an article about Victorian fiction in which she recalled...biography (Anthony Trollope: A Victorian in His World, 1990) I found...very prominent place to the author of Framley Parsonage. He...
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Samuel White Baker's Rifle: Part of the Victorian Explorer, Author and Big Game Hunter's Formidable Arsenal

Magazine article; Geographical, Vol. 81, April 2009

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Baker, Samuel White, Sir--Equipment and supplies, Explorers--Equipment and supplies, Hunting rifles--Usage

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...White Bakers Rifle: Part of the Victorian Explorer, Author and Big Game Hunters Formidable...struggle for existence, the Victorian explorer and big game hunter...partially accepted as a couple by Victorian society (although Queen Victoria...
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The Victorians in Washington

Magazine article by Richard Mullen; Contemporary Review, Vol. 271, July 1997

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Art, Victorian--Exhibitions, Smithsonian Institution. National Gallery of Art--Exhibitions, Washington, D.C.--Galleries and museums

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...portrayal of the luminaries of Victorian society ranging from Mr Gladstone...show the problems of the Victorian poor in two moving works...social realism show how the Victorians did not hide the blemishes...Dr Richard Mullen is the author of Victoria: Portrait of a Queen; Anthony Trollope: A Victorian in His World; The Penguin...

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Newspaper Articles on: victorian author

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The Victorian Author Who Had Modern Living Down to a Tee; for Sale - 1892 Golf Novel That Predicted Arrival of Caddie Cars and TV

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 20, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

The Victorian Author Who Had Modern Living Down...vision of the future, an author allowing his imagination...modern age. The British authors 1892 novel correctly prophesied...matched by Concorde. The author also foresaw the 1970s invention...
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Fairy Tale of Two Authors; NEW PLAY RECREATES MEETING OF TWO VICTORIAN AUTHORS

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), April 2, 2010

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Dickens, Charles

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Fairy Tale of Two Authors; NEW PLAY RECREATES MEETING OF TWO VICTORIAN AUTHORS. Byline: SARAH BATLEY AUTHOR Charles Dickens was a champion of human...So home life wasnt much fun - though author Hans Christian Andersen didnt spot it...
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PROFILE: From Infant Thieves to Murderers, a Look into Victorian Jails; SALLY HOBAN Meets an Author with an Insatiable Appetite for History

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 12, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Jails; SALLY HOBAN Meets an Author with an Insatiable Appetite...confined life of prisoners in Victorian England. Michelle has examined...It turns out that a lot of Victorian people from the poorest classes...way you lived your life in Victorian England could get you into...says Michelle. "The Victorians were keen to reform women...
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The First Domestic Goddess; MRS BEETON Was a Brand Name for Victorian Recipes and Respectability. but, as SARAH WILLIAMS, Author of a New TV Film Reveals, Behind Her Success, Her Life Was Blighted by a Shameful Disease

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 7, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...BEETON Was a Brand Name for Victorian Recipes and Respectability. but, as SARAH WILLIAMS, Author of a New TV Film Reveals...the life of Mrs Beeton - the Victorian cook who was the original...Beecher Stowe, the books author. On the proceeds he launched...no reliable cure. For the Victorians, it was just one of those...
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BOOKS: Stunning Biography from a Happy Author; John Stuart Mill - Victorian Firebrand by Richard Reeves. Atlantic Books. Pounds 30

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), December 1, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Stunning Biography from a Happy Author; John Stuart Mill - Victorian Firebrand by Richard Reeves...unfamiliar with the name of the author of this new biography of JS...married. Reeves knows the Victorians well enough to realise that...whose thinking revolutionised Victorian Britian

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Encyclopedia Articles on: victorian author

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Butler, Samuel , 1835–1902, English Author

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

BUTLER, SAMUEL , 1835 1902, English author 1835 1902, English author. He was the son and grandson of eminent clergymen...autobiographical The Way of All Flesh (1903), he attacked the Victorian pattern of life, in particular the ecclesiastical...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...innovator among the late Victorian poets was the Jesuit priest...pointed out the hypocrisies in Victorian values and institutions...become features of post-Victorian sensibility. World War I...the best postwar British authors were the Welsh poet Dylan...Davis, 1830 1880, the Victorians (2002...
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Alcott, Louisa May

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...LOUISA MAY 1832 88, American author, b. Germantown, Pa.; daughter...largely autobiographical, the author herself being represented by...all picture family life in Victorian America with warmth and perception...and composed in 1849 when the author was 18. Bibliography See her...
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National Parks and Monuments

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...N.C. 1968 264 (107) Farm home of author Carl Sandburg . Chaco Culture HP NW N...SE N.Y. 1962 83 (34) Estate and Victorian-style home of President Theodore Roosevelt...1940 212 (86) 19th-century palatial Victorian residence of a grandson of Cornelius...
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Trollope, Anthony

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...visit to the United States. He was an industrious and prolific author, and besides his novels and travel books he wrote several...The series as a whole presents a fascinating microcosm of Victorian society. Trollopes mother, Frances "Fanny" Trollope, 1780...

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