Gail Cunningham

Standard Name: Cunningham, Gail

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Victoria Cross
The details of the relationship are irrecoverable, but Gail Cunningham notes that VC 's use of Heneage Mackenzie Griffin 's surname cause at least some of her contemporaries to assume that they were married.
Cunningham, Gail, and Victoria Cross. “Introduction”. Anna Lombard, edited by Gail Cunningham and Gail Cunningham, Continuum, 2006, p. vii - xxv.
viii- ix
Literary responses Victoria Cross
Reviewers were more approving of Six Chapters of a Man's Life than of many previous Cross novels. The Aberdeen Free Press, for instance, praised her uncommon literary ability, and in the Review of Reviews...
Literary responses George Egerton
Gail Cunningham finds in A Nocturne a richly evocative sense of gender complexities as finely written as any of the now better-known Keynotes pieces.
Cunningham, Gail. “’He-Notes’: Reconstructing Masculinity”. The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact: Fin de Siècle Feminisms, edited by Angelique Richardson and Chris Willis, Palgrave, 2001, pp. 94-106.
102
She also argues that this volume was disadvantaged by appearing...
Publishing Victoria Cross
Little of the critical speculation about the genealogy of The Woman Who Didn't has been confirmed. Charlotte Mitchell posits that the risqué subject matter of the novel VC produced after signing a contract with Lane
Publishing Victoria Cross
Anna Lombard quickly became notorious and commercially successful. The year 1902 saw a third edition (which included a preface defending its Christian teaching
qtd. in
Mitchell, Charlotte. Victoria Cross, 1868-1952: A Bibliography. Victorian Fiction Research Unit, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland, 2002.
38n39
from an attack in the Daily Chronicle); a thirty-first edition...
Textual Features Kathleen Caffyn
This three-volume narrative opens on the childhood of Gwen and Dacre Waring, a sister and brother who grow up in a wealthy, intellectual and agnostic family. Their parents' unorthodox values do not, however, extend to...
Textual Features Ménie Muriel Dowie
Alongside MMD 's engagement with pertinent social discussions is a frank treatment of both masculine and feminine sexual desire that is central to the plot of the novel. Gallia, for instance, is portrayed as being...
Textual Production Kathleen Caffyn
As Iota, KC published A Quaker Grandmother, which Gail Cunningham calls an utterly innocuous little
Cunningham, Gail. The New Woman and the Victorian Novel. Macmillan, 1978.
78
novel.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Longman, 1988.
under Iota

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Texts

Cunningham, Gail. “’He-Notes’: Reconstructing Masculinity”. The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact: Fin de Siècle Feminisms, edited by Angelique Richardson and Chris Willis, Palgrave, 2001, pp. 94-106.
Cross, Victoria. Anna Lombard. Editor Cunningham, Gail, Continuum, 2006.
Cunningham, Gail, and Victoria Cross. “Introduction”. Anna Lombard, edited by Gail Cunningham and Gail Cunningham, Continuum, 2006, p. vii - xxv.
Cunningham, Gail. The New Woman and the Victorian Novel. Macmillan, 1978.