Max Beerbohm

The story takes place at Geneva in Switzerland (transferred from the Italian scene of the real-llife original), on an estate owned by a Baron Klopstock, among characters of diverse national origins. The protagonist, Lister the...

Critics found Mrs. Grundy quite boring. Max Beerbohm said in the Saturday Review that most of the characters were conventional stage daubs. The Athenæum maintained that the writing was not the problem, but blamed the...

At the time Max Beerbohm praised the play in the Saturday Review for its unfeminine willingness to tackle a large subject in serious spirit. On the other hand the writer of GP 's obituary...

The book drew a letter of tribute from Max Beerbohm .

Writing in the year of its publication, Max Beerbohm argued that the reason for the unusually cordial reception accorded this novel was not (as Ouida's newly warm critics had suggested) that she had...

In An Appreciation of Ouida, Street singled out for praise her genuine and passionate love of beauty . . . and a genuine and passionate hatred of injustice and oppression. Although he noted that...

To many of her contemporaries (especially male contemporaries), AM symbolised the perfection of Woman and Mother. Many descriptions of her suggest Woolf 's Mrs Ramsay in To the Lighthouse. Coventry Patmore and Francis Thompson

CD 's stage adaptation of Max Beerbohm 's The Happy Hypocrite was first performed at His Majesty's Theatre , London.

But word about their plan got out. Summoned to appear before the authorities, they turned themselves in at precisely the moment that the protest was to start. Other suffragettes duly demonstrated in their absence. The...

AL 's A Few Words with Mr. Max Beerbohm appeared in The Sketch.

Three essays appeared, all by male critics, commending Ouida 's novels: by G. S. Street in The Yellow Book, Stephen Crane in Book Buyer, and Max Beerbohm in the Saturday Review.

Among the other poems were a number that dealt with illicit sexuality. Cousin Kate uses ballad metre to explore the sexual double standard and lack of female solidarity. The speaker, a humble cottager seduced by...

This novel, another treatment of suffering which looks back to the book of Job, begins when a film director, Tom Richards, falls from a crane on a film set and is taken to...

Novels adapted by MW are not restricted to those by women. Works by male writers she has revised for broadcasting include Kipps by H. G. Wells , aired on Radio 4 in 1984 and runner-up...

Michael Burn wrote an introduction for this book, and VT 's half-uncle Max Beerbohm wrote a letter which served as prefatory material. The book draws on a scrapbook or commonplace-book kept by Parsons: hence its...