Jane Eldridge Miller

Standard Name: Miller, Jane Eldridge

Connections

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Literary responses Zoë Fairbairns
The Times Literary Supplement reviewer, Jane Miller , complained that Marcus and his unimaginative self-absorption were depressing.
Miller, Jane Eldridge. “Other New Novels”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3532, 6 Nov. 1969, p. 1274.
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She was sceptical of his potential as a future writer given that he liked neither life nor...
Literary responses Evelyn Sharp
Biographer Angela V. John feels that this is the work for which ES is best remembered today.
John, Angela V. “’Behind the Locked Door’: Evelyn Sharp, suffragette and rebel journalist”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
12
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 5-13.
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Jane Eldridge Miller borrowed its title for her Rebel Women: Feminism, Modernism, and the Edwardian Novel, 1994.
Literary responses Sarah Grand
Elaine Showalter brought SG to the attention of late-twentieth-century New Woman and feminist criticism in A Literature of Their Own, 1977, where she discussed The Heavenly Twins and The Beth Book.
Mangum, Teresa. Married, Middlebrow, and Militant: Sarah Grand and the New Woman Novel. University of Michigan Press, 1998.
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Since...
Literary responses Betty Miller
BM was understandably devastated by the rejection of Gollancz .
Miller, Jane Eldridge, and Betty Miller. “Preface”. Farewell Leicester Square, Persephone Books, 2000, p. vii - xix.
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She had told a friend it would be not only her best novel to date but one of her publisher's best ever too.
Miller, Jane Eldridge, and Betty Miller. “Preface”. Farewell Leicester Square, Persephone Books, 2000, p. vii - xix.
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Literary responses Betty Miller
Rosamond Lehmann praised this novel in a letter as intelligent, brave enough to tackle a serious moral problem, written with wonderful vividness and sensitivity, and excellent in its character-drawing of men as well as women...
Textual Production Sarah Grand
SG first appeared in print with her novelTwo Dear Little Feet: a morality tale about the dangers posed to women's health by fashionable, too-tight boots.
Scholars like Gillian Kersley , Ann Heilmann ...

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Miller, Betty, and Jane Eldridge Miller. Farewell Leicester Square. Persephone Books, 2000.
Miller, Jane Eldridge. “Other New Novels”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3532, p. 1274.
Miller, Jane Eldridge, and Betty Miller. “Preface”. Farewell Leicester Square, Persephone Books, 2000, p. vii - xix.