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Books on: victorian novelist

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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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...complained that she was out of fashion. The Victorians were dying out; the Carlyles, whom...Ellen Terry. In the place of the old Victorian woman novelist there had arisen a new species: Mrs...the century. Perhaps the domestic novelist has to be a reactionary, because success...
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Mrs. Humphry Ward: Eminent Victorian, Pre-Eminent Edwardian

Book by John Sutherland; Clarendon Press, 1990

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Ward, Humphry--Mrs.--1851-1920, Women Novelists, English--19th Century--Biography, Women Novelists, English--20th Century--Biography

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...modern working mother. Of her more than any other Victorian novelist excepting Anthony Trollope and his pillar boxes may...London streets, any day of the working week. The Victorian settlement movement--of which Mary Ward House and...
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Hear Us out : [Conversations with Gay Novelists

Book by Richard Canning; Columbia University Press, 2003

Subjects:

American Fiction--21st Century--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, English Fiction--21st Century--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, Gay Men In Literature, Gay Men's Writings, American--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, Gay Men's Writings, English--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, Homosexuality And Literature--English-Speaking Countries--History--20th Century, Male Authors, American--Interviews, Male Authors, English--Interviews, Novelists, American--21st Century--Interviews, Novelists, English--21st Century--Interviews

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...to any nineteenth-centu- ry novelist, however. Your longer books dont feel Victorian. CB No? You say that as if Victorian were pejorative. But youre prob...that I think about it, though, Victorian novels arent always fub- sy or...
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American Naturalistic and Realistic Novelists: A Biographical Dictionary

Book by E. C. Applegate; Greenwood Press, 2002

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American Fiction--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Fiction--Dictionaries, Naturalism In Literature--Dictionaries, Novelists, American--Biography--Dictionaries, Realism In Literature--Dictionaries

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...Mark Twain to Dreiser . New York: Hill and Wang, 1965. . Victorian Culture in America, 1865 1914 . Itasca, Ill.: F. E...Books, 1972. Norris, Frank. The Responsibilities of the Novelist . New York: Doubleday, Page, 1903. Nye, Russel. The...
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Notes on Novelists: With Some Other Notes

Book by Henry James; Biblo and Tannen, 1969

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Fiction, Fiction--History And Criticism, Novelists

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...been from far back and straight down through all the Victorian time, but the fond superstition that the key of the...each and every situation that could turn up for the novelist, was the sentimental key, which might fit into no...

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Journal Articles on: victorian novelist

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Peacock in Love: Reminiscences of Cecilia Jenkins, an Unknown Victorian Novelist

Journal article by Nicholas A. Joukovsky; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 85, 2006

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Jenkins, Cecilia--Criticism and interpretation, Jenkins, Cecilia--Works, Women authors--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors--Works, Women writers--Criticism and interpretation, Women writers--Works

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...Reminiscences of Cecilia Jenkins, an Unknown Victorian Novelist. by Nicholas A. Joukovsky An editor of literary...the life and writings of a hitherto unrecognized Victorian novelist whose work is noteworthy for its critique of the...
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Edging Women Out?: Reviews of Women Novelists in the Athenaeum, 1860-1900

Journal article by Ellen Miller Casey; Victorian Studies, Vol. 39, 1996

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English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, Great Britain--Civilization, Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901

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...Women Out?: Reviews of Women Novelists in the Athenaeum, 1860...Literary Capital and the Late Victorian Novel , for example, N...information about the mass of Victorian novels is difficult to obtain...publishing and reception history of Victorian women novelists, I read the...
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The Victorian Sonnet, from George Meredith to Gerard Manley Hopkins

Journal article by Stephen Regan; Yearbook of English Studies, Vol. 36, 2006

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English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism and interpretation, Hopkins, Gerard Manley--Criticism and interpretation, Meredith, George (British novelist)--Criticism and interpretation, Sonnets--Criticism and interpretation, Victorian period literature, 1832-1901--Criticism and interpretation

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The Victorian Sonnet, from George Meredith to Gerard Manley Hopkins. by Stephen Regan The Victorian sonnet has too often been seen as a poor...predecessors. Despite its reputation, the Victorian sonnet is deeply preoccupied with questions...
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George Meredith's Early Verse: A New Manuscript in His First Wife's Hand

Journal article by Nicholas A. Joukovsky; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 45, 2007

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English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Works, English poetry--Criticism and interpretation, English poetry--Works, Meredith, George (British novelist)--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Meredith, George (British novelist)--Criticism and interpretation, Meredith, George (British novelist)--Works, Nicolls, Mary Ellen, The Three Maidens (Poem)--Authorship, The Three Maidens (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Victorian period literature, 1832-1901--Criticism and interpretation, Victorian period literature, 1832-1901--Works

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...exploration of his failed marriage in Modern Love (1862). Notes (1) See William Hardmans letter of January 1862, in A Mid-Victorian Pepys: The Letters and Memoirs of Sir William Hardman, ed. S. M. Ellis (London: Cecil Palmer, 1923), pp. 87-88...
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Collins's Moonstone: The Victorian Novel as Sacrifice, Theft, Gift and Debt

Journal article by Ilana Blumberg; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 37, 2005

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Collins, Wilkie--Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism and interpretation, The Moonstone (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Victorian period literature, 1832-1901--Criticism and interpretation

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...were understood by many Victorians to be benevolent and socially...in The Moonstone and in Victorian novels more largely. Rather...ethical challenges faced by Victorians--and particularly a Victorian novelist--attempting to organize...economic order, Victorian novelists had a different task at...

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Magazine Articles on: victorian novelist

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From a Past Contemporary: Three Victorian Novelists

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

Subjects:

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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...contemporary: three Victorian novelists by Amelia Edwards...The Art of the Novelist. Amelia Edwards...was a popular novelist who began her career...recalled three great novelists of her early years...treated by our novelists as a mere lay figure...the art of the novelist, sincerity. It...
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Amy Levy: A Tragic Victorian Novelist

Magazine article by Richard Whittington-Egan; Contemporary Review, Vol. 280, January 2002

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Levy, Amy--Conduct of life, Women authors--Conduct of life

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Amy Levy: A tragic Victorian Novelist. by Richard Whittington-Egan SHE...seven years of age, a poet and novelist of rising distinction. Her name...Violet Paget cloaked her feminality. Novelist and aesthetician, she lived in her...
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Martini-Age Victorian: The Novelist John P. Marquand Was a Brilliant Satirist with a "Dictaphonic Ear" for Dialogue

Magazine article by Martha Spaulding; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 293, May 2004

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Literature--Criticism and interpretation, Marquand, John P.--Criticism and interpretation

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Martini-Age Victorian: The Novelist John P. Marquand Was a Brilliant...the beginning of his career as a novelist. His next three novels sold so...1952, called a "Martini-Age Victorian"--wrote primarily about manners...
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And Is the Way We Live Now So Much Better? the BBC's Trollope Serialisation Leads John Sutherland to Draw Some Parallels between Victorian and Blairite Britain

Magazine article by John Sutherland; New Statesman, Vol. 130, December 17, 2001

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Civilization, Modern--20th century, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Life style--Analysis, Trollope, Anthony--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...principally out-of-copyright Victorian fiction) at a budget price...his death, in 1882, the novelists reputation went into a deep...in 1875, unfashionable. Victorians did not like it one bit...cited him as his favourite novelist (John Major duly took the...popularity took off like a Gothic Victorian rocket in the 1960s with...side of great Victorian novelists, ever since Edmund Wilson...
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Lost Victorians

Magazine article by John Gardiner; History Today, Vol. 49, December 1999

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British--Conduct of life, Social values--England, United Kingdom--History, 1837-1901 (Victorian era)

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...historical moment when, our Victorian forebears went missing...invoked a set of `Victorian values: belief in...call the `loss of the Victorians -- the way in which...recede into what the novelist L.P. Hartley called...which has it that the Victorians were rejected after...the growing anti-Victorian mood to be found before...

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Newspaper Articles on: victorian novelist

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A Dickens of a Painter; Just as the British Public Was Enthralled by the Great Victorian Novelist and His Storytelling Genius, His Friend William Powell Frith Did Much the Same on Canvas for the Royal Academy

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), December 15, 2006

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Novelists

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...British Public Was Enthralled by the Great Victorian Novelist and His Storytelling Genius, His Friend...thousands of engravings that put his images of Victorian life into the drawing rooms of the Victorian middle classes, I have not the slightest...
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Floral Tribute to a Literary Genius; CULTURE: Crowd Pays Homage to Victorian Novelist George Eliot in Her Hometown

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), July 3, 2008

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Eliot, George--Appreciation, Novelists

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...Literary Genius; CULTURE: Crowd Pays Homage to Victorian Novelist George Eliot in Her Hometown. Byline: By Steve...the life of Mary Ann Evans, better known as the Victorian novelist George Eliot. They gathered around the obelisk...
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Tales from a Treasured Island; Nigel Planer Explores Samoa,the Gentle South Pacific Paradise Where One of Our Best Loved Victorian Novelists Is Still Rememberedandrevered

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 29, 2005

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Stevenson, Robert Louis (British novelist)

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...Treasured Island; Nigel Planer Explores Samoa,the Gentle South Pacific Paradise Where One of Our Best Loved Victorian Novelists Is Still Rememberedandrevered. Byline: NIGEL PLANER THE climb up through the steaming tropical-forest had already...
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Dickens Defined; Richard Edmonds Says the Latest Biography of the Famed Novelist Is a Substantial and Fascinating Tome

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 4, 2009

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Novelists

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...Latest Biography of the Famed Novelist Is a Substantial and Fascinating...life of one of the finest novelists of all time. But Dickens...all that is a moral. No novelist before Dickens had written...very close to the heart of Victorian society, who saw social...the armchair socialism of Victorian moral philanthropy left Dickens...
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Three Beers for George Eliot! Ales Brewed in Tribute to Novelist

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), August 18, 2007

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Beer, Breweries, Brewing industry, Eliot, George--Appreciation, Novelists

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...Eliot! Ales Brewed in Tribute to Novelist. Byline: By Steve Evans BEER...Ann Evans, better known as the Victorian novelist George Eliot. This year marks...one of the ales brewed to honour novelist George Eliot. Picture: Robin...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: victorian novelist

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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...literary. Although the great novelist Jane Austen wrote during...novel widely popular. Other novelists of the period were Maria...satirizing the romantics. The Victorian Age The Reform Bill of 1832...psychological perception. Another novelist of the late 19th cent. was...Looking Glass (1871). Lesser novelists of considerable merit include...
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Byatt, A. S

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...Byatt)bi t, 1936 , British novelist; sister of Margaret Drabble...she is a noted critic and novelist whose work is erudite, subtle...once a mystery, a work of Victorian literary scholarship, a romance...both of which examine Victorian times with a contemporary...
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Hardy, Thomas

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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HARDY, THOMAS 1840 1928, English novelist and poet, b. near Dorchester, one...not only by nature but also by rigid Victorian social conventions. Hardys style is...Hardys vision reflects a world in which Victorian complacencies were dying but its moralism...
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Moore, Brian

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...BRIAN 1921 99, Canadian-American novelist, b. Belfast, Northern Ireland. He...of Ginger Coffey (1960), The Great Victorian Collection (1975), Black Robe (1985...Sampson, Brian Moore: The Chameleon Novelist (1998); studies by H. Dahlie (1969...
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Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson)

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...ELIZABETH CLEGHORN (STEVENSON) gas k l, 1810 65, English novelist. When she was still an infant her mother died, and she was...South (1855) she depicts the social conditions of early Victorian England, particularly of the working classes in the large...

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