George Slythe Street

Standard Name: Street, George Slythe
Used Form: G. S. Street

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Ouida
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...
Literary responses Githa Sowerby
In his letter recommending the play for a licence, G. S. Street described it as clever and thoughtful, praising the soundness and delicacy of its characterization.
Street, George Slythe. Letter from Lord Chamberlain’s Office recommending ’A Man and Some Women’ for licence. 13 Oct. 1914.
Literary responses Githa Sowerby
G. S. Street 's letter from the Lord Chamberlain's office recommending the play for licence observed sympathetically that [t]he emotions are subtle—too much so, I fear, for the ordinary critics and public.
Street, George Slythe. Letter from Lord Chamberlain’s Office recommending ’Sheila’ for licence. 18 May 1917.
He added (in...
Literary responses Ouida
Writing in the year of its publication, Max Beerbohm argued that the reason for the unusually cordial reception
qtd. in
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Gale Research, 1978–2024, Numerous volumes.
43: 361
accorded this novel was not (as Ouida's newly warm critics had suggested) that she had...
Reception Ouida
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.
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Gale Research, 1978–2024, Numerous volumes.
43: 360, 361

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Street, George Slythe. Letter from Lord Chamberlain’s Office recommending ’A Man and Some Women’ for licence.
Street, George Slythe. Letter from Lord Chamberlain’s Office recommending ’Sheila’ for licence.