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Books on: victorian writer

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Victorian Writers and the Image of Empire: The Rose-Colored Vision

Book by Laurence Kitzan; Greenwood Press, 2001

Subjects:

Colonies In Literature, English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, Imperialism In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Henty, Imperialist Boys Writer. London: Hamish Hamilton...Visions and Domestic Debates in Victorian Literature. Manchester...Brander, Michael. The Perfect Victorian Hero: The Life and Times...Bratton, J. S. The Impact of Victorian Childrens Fiction. London...Ford K. Fathers of the Victorians: The Age of Wilberforce...
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Outside the Pale: Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, and the Victorian Woman Writer

Book by Elsie B. Michie; Cornell University Press, 1993

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Authors, English--19th Century--Social Conditions, Authorship--Sex Differences, English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, English Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Women And Literature--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Women Authors, English--Social Conditions

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...describes his travels in Ireland allows us to see how a Victorian writer who was aware of the problematic English treatment of the Irish still could not avoid becoming imbricated in Victorian racist and imperialist logic. Kingsley writes: I...
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Silent Voices: Forgotten Novels by Victorian Women Writers

Book by Brenda Ayres; Praeger, 2003

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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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...ideology is inherent in Christianity. Grands work is indeed one of the strongest fictional forays into theology by a Victorian woman writer. In the novel, Grand distinguishes between the practices of Christian churches and the egalitarian roots of...
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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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The Life and Works of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Victorian Feminist Writer
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Victorian Women Writers and the Classics: The Feminine of Homer

Book by Isobel Hurst; Oxford University Press, 2006

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English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, English Literature--Women Authors--Classical Influences, English Literature--Women Authors--Greek Influences, English Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Women And Literature--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Women Authors, English--19th Century

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...Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century...2002. Gorham, Deborah, The Victorian Girl and the Feminine Ideal...Epic: Nation, Empire and Victorian Epic Poetry. Manchester...Albert J. Kuhn, (eds.), Victorian Literature and Society: Essays...

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Journal Articles on: victorian writer

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Ellen Terry, the Ghost-Writer and the Laughing Statue: The Victorian Actress, Letters and Life-Writing

Journal article by Katharine Cockin; Journal of European Studies, 2002

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Biographies--Criticism and interpretation, Biography--Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age), Ghostwriting--History, Letters (Correspondence)--Criticism and interpretation, Letters--Criticism and interpretation, Terry, Dame Ellen--Criticism and interpretation, Victorian period literature, 1832-1901, Women in the theater--History

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...Terry. The employment of a ghost-writer may not necessarily be interpreted...Gail Marshall, Actresses on the Victorian Stage: Feminine Performance and...Jacky Bratton, Jane Scott the writer-manager, in Davis and Donkin...
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Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present

Journal article; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 25, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present (Book)--Book reviews

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...and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present. Reading...and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present. Edited...Phegley discusses how two Victorian literary magazines sought...several significant female writers and works of womens literature...
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D. G. Rossetti and Christina Rossetti as Sonnet Writers

Journal article by Isobel Armstrong; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 48, 2010

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Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Later Life: A Double Sonnet Of Sonnets (Poetry collection)--Criticism and interpretation, Rossetti, Christina--Criticism and interpretation, Rossetti, Dante Gabriel--Criticism and interpretation, The House of Life (Poetry collection)--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Criticism and interpretation

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D. G. Rossetti and Christina Rossetti as Sonnet Writers. by Isobel Armstrong Sonnets and Sun Pictures Both Rossettis...and the sonnet are meant to be repeatedly read. For the Victorian poet the "photographic" nature of the sonnet meant that...
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Clement Scott, the Victorian Tribal Scribe

Journal article by Jacky Bratton; Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, Vol. 36, 2009

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Autobiographical literature, Critics, Scot, Clement, Theater, Victorian period, Writers

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Clement Scott, the Victorian Tribal Scribe by Jacky Bratton...assessing the contributions of Victorian and Edwardian historians of...in the vulgar history with Victorian hypocrisy and reactionary...times. Scott was a prolific writer of stories, dramatic translations...
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Revising the Late Victorian and Early Modernist Canon: A Review Article

Journal article by Jane Thomas; Yearbook of English Studies, Vol. 36, 2006

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Anna Lombard (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Children of the Ghetto (Book)--Book reviews, Dreams, Visions and Realities: Short Stories by Late-Victorian and Early Modernist Women Writers (Book)--Book reviews, Dreams: Three Works (Book)--Book reviews, In Darkest London: A Social Documentary of the East End in the 1880s (Book)--Book reviews, Keynotes and Discords (Book)--Book reviews, The Creators (Book)--Book reviews, The History of Sir Richard Calmady (Book)--Book reviews, The Romance of a Shop (Book)--Book reviews

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...Kelsey Thornton, series editors of Late Victorian and Early Modernist Women Writers, and R. A. Biderman, Victorian Series editor for Black Apollo Press...teacher, whose understanding of the late Victorian and early Modernist period will be...

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Magazine Articles on: victorian writer

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The Victorian Achievement: A Usually Sophisticated Writer Indulges in Simple-Minded Animus against Victorian England-Which Deserves Better

Magazine article by Gertrude Himmelfarb; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 291, March 2003

Subjects:

THE VICTORIANS (Book)

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The Victorian Achievement: A Usually Sophisticated Writer Indulges in Simple-Minded Animus against Victorian England-Which Deserves...Gertrude Himmelfarb THE VICTORIANS by A. N. Wilson W...Norton My copy of The Victorians came in the same post...Revisiting the Victorian era for lessons to...
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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)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...from their ancient Victorian complex. On a grander...of the `loss of the Victorians. There is sufficient...nostalgic about the Victorian period. J.A. Bridges...past; the anonymous writer of The Victorian Age...inspiration of the Victorian past. What too of...apotheosis in Eminent Victorians? We might argue that...
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`A Most Felicitous Foray': Dean Juniper Shows the Power of a `Green' Victorian Pressure Group in Action

Magazine article by Dean Juniper; History Today, Vol. 52, September 2002

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Commons Preservation Society--History, Environmental associations--History, United Kingdom--History, 1837-1901 (Victorian era)

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...pressure groups of the Victorian era and earlier, whose...forward, and in the great Victorian tradition of penurious...enduring testament to a Victorian pressure group in action. Dean Juniper is a writer based at the University...
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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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...the period. The Victorian age in Britain is...respect from such writers as Trollope, the...accepted view of Victorian business and industrial...Ford is a freelance writer. He has a particular interest in the Victorian industrial scene...
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Edmund Gosse and the Victorian Nude: Jason Edwards Takes a Fresh Look at Attitudes to the Nude in Victorian Art, to Coincide with Tate Britain's Major Exhibition on the Subject Opening This Month

Magazine article by Jason Edwards; History Today, Vol. 51, November 2001

Subjects:

Art, Victorian--Exhibitions, Artists--Conduct of life, Gosse, Edmund--Conduct of life, Nude in art--Analysis

Collections: History, Entire Library

...homosexual subcultures of late-Victorian London and Oxford. It is...Gosse was a successful writer and pillar of the establishment...affectionate memoirs of his Victorian childhood inspired an entire...Gosse senior could employ the Victorian nude to bolster up Puritan...all classically educated Victorians. In cautioning his son that...

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Newspaper Articles on: victorian writer

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Rehabilitating Lytton? Life of a Victorian Writer Who Lost Popular Acclaim

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 7, 2003

Subjects:

Dickens, Charles

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

...Lytton? Life of a Victorian writer who lost popular...conspicuous success as a writer. Highly esteemed by such writers as Benjamin Disraeli...Englands greatest writers and one of the most...take. But where a writer had something really...
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Rugby Writers Recall Tales of Welsh Game's Victorian Past

Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), June 10, 2009

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Rugby football

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

Rugby Writers Recall Tales of Welsh Games Victorian Past. CARDIFF-BASED rugby...internationals when researching Victorian rugby in Wales. He has examined...both rugby and urban life in Victorian Wales. However, both Gwyn...capped game. Another prolific writer, Romanian-born Chris Thau...
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Hot under the Bonnet; BBC'S BLOCKBUSTER COSTUME DRAMA ADDS COCKTAIL OF SEX AND VIOLENCE TO DICKENS CLASSIC Writer Andrew Davies Reveals How He Transformed Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit into the Year's Biggest Costume Drama - Featuring Vampish Victorian Vixens, Vile Villians and Lashings of Violence. He and the All-Star Cast Tell GRAHAM KEAL Why the Gripping 14-Part Series Is Unmissable

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), October 21, 2008

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

...DRAMA ADDS COCKTAIL OF SEX AND VIOLENCE TO DICKENS CLASSIC Writer Andrew Davies Reveals How He Transformed Charles Dickens Little...Dorrit into the Years Biggest Costume Drama - Featuring Vampish Victorian Vixens, Vile Villians and Lashings of Violence. He and the...
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A Toll Tale for House in Former Town Pub; Colourful Past of Property Which Dates Back to the Victorian Times

Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), August 14, 2008

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

...Which Dates Back to the Victorian Times. Byline: Alison Young Features Writer HORSE and carts once had...date back to at least the Victorian era. "Its a shame we cant...house dates back to the Victorian era or possibly even earlier...
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Family Style Home Is Where the Kids Are in Glen Ellyn Victorian

Newspaper article by Deborah Donovan; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 27, 2006

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

...Where the Kids Are in Glen Ellyn Victorian. by Deborah Donovan Byline: Deborah Donovan Daily Herald Homes Writer The Victorian mansion on the hill is not an...dining room and on the stairway. Victorian accoutrements include a wrap...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: victorian writer

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Trollope, Anthony

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...whole presents a fascinating microcosm of Victorian society. Trollopes mother, Frances "Fanny" Trollope, 1780 1863, was also a writer. Her acerbic account of her travels in...England and began her career as a successful writer. She continued to write travel books...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...history. The energy of Englands writers matched that of its mariners...Jonson. Among the leading prose writers of the Jacobean period were...stands out, and the Scottish writer James Kelman stands out. Bibliography...P. Davis, 1830 1880, the Victorians (2002...
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Hardy, Thomas

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Dorchester, one of the great English writers of the 19th cent. The son of a stonemason...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...Florence Emily Dugdale, a childrens book writer, some 40 years his junior. He spent...
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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

...9 (4) Home of the abolitionist and writer; contains original furnishings, photographs...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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Fowles, John

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...FOWLES, JOHN 1926 2005, English writer, b. Leigh-on-Sea, Essex...Oxford, 1950. A complex, cerebral writer and a superb storyteller, Fowles...film 1981) is a multilayered "Victorian" novel that has three alternate...

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