Samuel Schoenbaum

Critic Samuel Schoenbaum wrote contemptuously of this book in Shakespeare 's Lives, 1970, while getting its title wrong and offering a simplistic account of ABJ 's life. He ascribes her choice of subject to...

A more recent Shakespeare scholar, Samuel Schoenbaum patronisingly attributes her employment by the Athenæum not to her own merit but to a journalistic coup in ingratiating herself with the management.She wrote, according to...

Warwickshire Contemporaries is one of the few texts about which Schoenbaum speaks well. He writes: One is . . . tempted to cry, Bravo, Mrs. Stopes; well done! In these pages . . . a...

Though Schoenbaum avows that CS ' treatment of Shakespeare in this work is refreshing, he notes that she cannot resist quasi-fictional embroidery. He remarks on her carelessness and finally says of one of her...

This text was not well received then or since. Schoenbaum suggests that it consists of scattered papers of unequal merit and he mentions her tendency to denigrate or ignore the accomplishments of co-workers. On...

This miscellany is described by Samuel Schoenbaum as mere book-making occasioned by the Tercentenary. However, CS received an Award of the British Academy for its publication.

CS concentrated her efforts on her writing to generate an income, although on 28 February 1908 she complained to her daughter, the difficulties of my class of work, are, that it requires to be severe...

However, even Schoenbaum finds things to praise: she did an heroic amount of archaeological burrowing, and found bits and pieces of new information that enhance the record. . . . her true forte was describing...

CS ' Shakespearan scholarship has received only moderate praise. Samuel Schoenbaum in Shakespeare's Lives wrote that her slovenliness, the vice of amateurism [is] dishearten[ing]: . . . The records Mrs. Stopes quotes are reproduced with...

At one time, says scholar Samuel Schoenbaum , she applied for daily work, presumably as a char, at the Record Office, but was turned away as they had enough girls.