Balfour, Elizabeth Edith, Countess of, and Constance Lytton. “Preface, Introduction”. Letters of Constance Lytton, edited by Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour and Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, Heinemann, 1925, p. v, xi - xv.
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| Textual Features | Constance Lytton | Most of the letters here are addressed to CL
's mother, her editor-sister, and two close friends who were also relations, her aunt Theresa Earle
and her cousin Adela Smith
. |
| Textual Features | Lady Margaret Sackville | Austen
, she says, was the first really modern novelist . . . more modern in a sense than Dickens
or Thackeray
. Austen, Jane. “Introduction”. Jane Austen, edited by Lady Margaret Sackville, Herbert & Daniel, 1912, p. ix - xvi. xi |
| Textual Features | Lucas Malet | But the context is still the fashionable jungle. Mr Perry can conceive of no higher glory than wealth and social success, and is ruthless in pursuit of these for his daughter and thus himself. Fat... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Rigby | While she held Jane Eyre in contempt, she showed general admiration for Becky Sharp, protagonist of Thackeray
's Vanity Fair, calling her wonderfully clever, and amusing, and accomplished, and intelligent. Rigby, Elizabeth. “Review: Vanity Fair; Jane Eyre; Governesses Benevolent Institution: Report for 1847Quarterly Review, Vol. 84 , Dec. 1848, pp. 153-85. 157 |
| Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | A 26-volume Centenary Biographical Edition of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray
was published with revised introductions by ATR
. MacKay, Carol Hanbery et al. “Introduction: Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s Centenary Biographical Introductions to the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”. The Two Thackerays: Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s Centenary Biographical Introductions to the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, AMS Press, 1988. xviii Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research, 1983. 256 |
| Textual Production | Margaret Forster | MF
published her unusual pastiche autobiography or biographical study, William Makepeace Thackeray
: Memoirs of a Victorian Gentleman. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 155 |
| Textual Production | A. Mary F. Robinson | |
| Textual Production | Geraldine Jewsbury | While working for the Athenæum, she reviewed works by literary figures including Mary Russell Mitford
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, Harriet Beecher Stowe
, Camilla Crosland
, Anthony Trollope
, George Eliot
, Julia Kavanagh |
| Textual Production | Angela Thirkell | She also provided introductions for editions of Jane Austen
's Persuasion, 1946, William Makepeace Thackeray
's The Newcomes, 1954, and Anthony Trollope
's Barchester Towers, 1958. |
| Textual Production | Susanna Moodie | SM
was influenced by spiritualism, though she was often unsure whether to be amazed or amused. For news of the movement, she and her husband read the Tribune and the Albion from New York. John Moodie |
| Textual Production | Sybille Bedford | When managing her own schooling, she wrote essays (on Macaulay
who fascinated, on Thackeray
who distinctly bored), tortured pieces, overflowing with quotations, leaden with words, . . . dragged out of myself by the sweat... |
| Textual Production | Adelaide Procter | Here AP
's wide literary connections paid off handsomely. Contributors to The Victoria Regia included some of the most prominent names in literature of the day, mingled with less prominent writers who were also feminists:... |
| Textual Production | Eliza Lynn Linton | ELL
's My Literary Life appeared posthumously, edited by Beatrice Harraden
: titled thus on the title-page and spine, it is in the half-title and elsewhere called Reminiscences of Dickens
, Thackeray
, George Eliot |
| Textual Production | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
was encouraged to write from an early age, particularly by her mother. She would later recall how when she was eight and had just learned to write, her godfather bought her a beautiful brand... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Gaskell | Illustrated by George du Maurier
, this serial ran alongside fiction by Trollope
and Thackeray
, and shared the lead with Collins
's Armadale. EG
received £2,000 for the serialisation (as compared to Collins's... |
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