Galchinsky
suggests that in Westernising their tales the Mosses sought to engender greater sympathy from non-Jewish readers, a motive the Athenæum also acknowledges. Galchinsky argues further that the sisters' appropriation of the romance genre, in...
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Celia Moss
Critic Michael Galchinsky
notes that the collection expresses a spiritual piety and a yearning for return to Zion.
Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press, 1996.
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In many of the poems, diasporic Jews (following a question posed in the Psalms about a...
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Celia Moss
Drawing once more on the romance genre, the Mosses returned to many of the same themes as The Romance of Jewish History, including the conflict between Jewish daughters and their fathers, with its implicit...
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Marion Moss
The journal ceased publication after only eleven issues. Although MM
claimed she wanted to devote more time to her family and to her school, critic Michael Galchinsky
attributes the journal's demise to a censorious act...
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Charlotte Montefiore
CM
anonymously published her collection of essays, A Few Words to the Jews. By one of themselves.
All known library catalogues date the first edition 1853. A second edition appeared in 1855. The few...
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Charlotte Montefiore
Galchinsky
notes that two of CM
's works have not survived.
Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press, 1996.
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Grace Aguilar
By 1833 she had also finished the two books which were eventually published in 1908 as Tales from British History, individually titled Macintosh, the Highland Chief, a Tale of the Civil War, and...