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Books on: victorian writer

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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

Subjects:

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...GENDER DIFFERENCE, and the VICTORIAN WOMAN WRITER Elsie B. Michie Cornell...gender difference, and the Victorian woman writer / Elsie B. Michie. p. cm...Ireland allows us to see how a Victorian writer who was aware of the problematic...
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The Life and Works of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Victorian Feminist Writer

Book by Lori Duin Kelly; Whitston Publishing, 1983

Subjects:

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Victorian Feminist Writer -ii- The Life and...Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Victorian Feminist Writer by Lori Duin...achievements as a feminist writer are all the more...fathers traditional Victorian household in the...
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The Reinterpretation of Victorian Literature

Book by Joseph E. Baker; Princeton University Press, 1950

Subjects:

English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...significance for us today. The writers of Victorian England first tried to salvage...the literary background of Victorian writers --and their public--by investigating...agricultural mentality of most Victorian writers, more firmly fixed by the...
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The Power of Lies: Transgression in Victorian Fiction

Book by John Kucich; Cornell University Press, 1994

Subjects:

Deviant Behavior In Literature, English Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, Truthfulness And Falsehood In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...dissimulation always underpin Victorian writers thinking about social and sexual...to the real creativity that Victorian writers celebrated in those who used...means of simple exclusion, Victorian writers regularly characterized some...
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The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945

Book by Daniel Joseph Singal; University of North Carolina Press, 1982

Subjects:

Southern States--Intellectual Life--1865-

Collections: History, Entire Library

Daniel Joseph Singal examines this struggle between the characteristic culture of twentieth-century America and the South's tenacious blend of Victorianism and the Cavalier myth.

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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

Subjects:

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Terry, the Ghost-Writer and the Laughing Statue: The Victorian Actress, Letters...function on the Victorian stage. (4) The...engaged a ghost-writer for published...Identity in Victorian Culture (London...Jane Scott the writer-manager, in...
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Alternatives to the Missionary Position: Anna Leonowens as Victorian Travel Writer

Journal article by Susan Brown; Feminist Studies, Vol. 21, 1995

Subjects:

Feminism

Collections: Entire Library

...POSITION: ANNA LEONOWENS AS VICTORIAN TRAVEL WRITER SUSAN BROWN The writings...strategies used by many Victorian writers to position themselves as...position of Leonowens as a Victorian travel writer was unusual. Most obviously...
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The Cultural Work of the Type-Writer Girl

Journal article by Christopher Keep; Victorian Studies, Vol. 40, 1997

Subjects:

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...as a "lady" than as a "type-writer," facilitates her reinscription...the normative bonds of late-Victorian gender ideology. The ventriloquised...beyond the keyboard. The Type-Writer Girl, then, was a site of cultural...two anonymous readers for Victorian Studies , all of whom read...
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Graven Images: The Woman Writer, the Indian Poetess, and Imperial Aesthetics in L.E.L.'S "Hindoo Temples and Palaces at Madura."

Journal article by Jean Fernandez; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 43, 2005

Subjects:

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...art forms manifestations in Victorian Imperial discourse. As texts...L.s text affirms the woman writer as triumphant savant rather...the Legend, Rethinking the Writer: Letitia Landon and the Poetess...Press, 1993); Angela Leighton, Victorian Woman Poets: Writing Against...
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'Faux-Victorian Melodrama' in the New Millennium: The Case of Sarah Waters

Journal article by Mariaconcetta Costantini; Critical Survey, Vol. 18, 2006

Subjects:

Adaptations--Forecasts and trends, Melodrama--Criticism and interpretation, Victorian values--Portrayals, Waters, Sarah--Criticism and interpretation, Waters, Sarah--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and profit-making. As a post-Victorian writer, Waters feels free to combine...different from the ones employed by Victorian writers, whose realism was more tainted...intertextual links with Dickens, the Victorian writer who was least reticent about...

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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...nature and writing of history as much as on the Victorians themselves. A notably prolific writer (rivaled in his country only by Paul Johnson...
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A Forgotten Victorian Author and the Society He Knew

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

Subjects:

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.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...fiction of the period. The Victorian age in Britain is particularly...in this respect from such writers as Trollope, the Brontes...Eric Ford is a freelance writer. He has a particular interest in the Victorian industrial scene, especially...
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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

...issue of the nude seems to fit. By 1907, of course, Gosse was a successful writer and pillar of the establishment, and his wryly affectionate memoirs of his Victorian childhood inspired an entire generation. Gosse had not, however, always been...
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Eminently Victorian

Magazine article by Arthur C. Danto; Artforum International, Vol. 38, January 2000

Subjects:

Art criticism--History, Art museums--History, Art, Victorian--Evaluation, Art--Exhibitions

Collections: Entire Library

...Hogarth or Reynolds from inside. This is because we owe to the Victorians many of the practices and attitudes that define the art world...petitioned John Ruskin (1819-1900), the most celebrated living writer on art, to publish something about their work, which, amazingly...
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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)

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...novelist who began her career as a writer by publishing a poem at age...she wrote an article about Victorian fiction in which she recalled...biography (Anthony Trollope: A Victorian in His World, 1990) I found...essentially representative writers of what I should like to call...

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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, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Lytton? Life of a Victorian writer who lost popular...stylistic ethos of Victorian literature ever...take. But where a writer had something really...Martin Rubin is a writer in Pasadena, Calif...RISE AND FALL OF A VICTORIAN MAN OF LETTERS...
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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, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, 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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Victorian Adventure Tale Filled with Intrigue, Magic

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 26, 2002

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

...as easily as it intrigues. Writer Mark (Captain America, Flash...supernatural shenanigans set in Victorian times. He includes a hero with...beautiful woman and set in a Victorian time. To the point A selected...Paying homage to Mad Maxx, writer Del Stone Jr. presents the...
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Victorian Adventure Tale Filled with Intrigue, Magic

Newspaper article by Joseph Szadkowski; The Washington Times, January 26, 2002

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

...as easily as it intrigues. Writer Mark (Captain America, Flash...supernatural shenanigans set in Victorian times. He includes a hero...beautiful woman and set in a Victorian time. TO THE POINT A selected...Paying homage to Mad Maxx, writer Del Stone Jr. presents the...
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Victorian England Master of World after Beating Mars

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 27, 2003

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

...on the base supporting it. Writer Ian Edginton immediately brings...futuristic machinery set in Victorian landscapes and far-out aircraft...1 (Marvel Comics, $3.50). Writer Garth Ennis brings the Punishers...Boba Fett stops by to help. Writer Scott Allie concocts an exciting...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: victorian writer

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Fowles, John

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, grad. Oxford, 1950. A complex, cerebral writer and a superb storyteller, Fowles was interested in manipulating...French Lieutenants Woman (1969; film 1981) is a multilayered "Victorian" novel that has three alternate endings; it reflects a modern...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Magazine, in which leading writers were published throughout...the romantics. The Victorian Age The Reform Bill...The Novel The Victorian era was the great age...John Galsworthy , new writers like Henry James...become features of post-Victorian sensibility. World...
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Alcott, Louisa May

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...a servant and a seamstress before she made her fortune as a writer. Her letters written to her family when she was a Civil War...Under the Lilacs (1879). They all picture family life in Victorian America with warmth and perception. She also wrote novels for...
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Hardy, Thomas

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Dorchester, one of the great English writers of the 19th cent. The son...by nature but also by rigid Victorian social conventions. Hardys...vision reflects a world in which Victorian complacencies were dying but...Emily Dugdale, a childrens book writer, some 40 years his junior...
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National Parks and Monuments

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Sagamore Hill HS SE N.Y. 1962 83 (34) Estate and Victorian-style home of President Theodore Roosevelt . Saint Croix...Mansion HS E N.Y. 1940 212 (86) 19th-century palatial Victorian residence of a grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt. War in...

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