Linny Lockwood ...

Linny Lockwood ...
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Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112041774792
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Synopsis Linny Lockwood ... by : Catherine Crowe

Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of Appreciations

Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of Appreciations
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Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Total Pages : 261
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ISBN-10 : 9781465613738
ISBN-13 : 1465613730
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Synopsis Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of Appreciations by : Mrs. Alexander

The effect produced upon the general mind by the appearance of Charlotte Brontë in literature, and afterwards by the record of her life when that was over, is one which it is nowadays somewhat difficult to understand. Had the age been deficient in the art of fiction, or had it followed any long level of mediocrity in that art, we could have comprehended this more easily. But Charlotte Brontë appeared in the full flush of a period more richly endowed than any other we know of in that special branch of literature, so richly endowed, indeed, that the novel had taken quite fictitious importance, and the names of Dickens and Thackeray ranked almost higher than those of any living writers except perhaps Tennyson, then young and on his promotion too. Anthony Trollope and Charles Reade who, though in their day extremely popular, have never had justice from a public which now seems almost to have forgotten them, formed a powerful second rank to these two great names. It is a great addition to the value of the distinction gained by the new comer that it was acquired in an age so rich in the qualities of the imagination. But this only increases the wonder of a triumph which had no artificial means to heighten it, nothing but genius on the part of a writer possessing little experience or knowledge of the world, and no sort of social training or adventitious aid. The genius was indeed unmistakable, and possessed in a very high degree the power of expressing itself in the most vivid and actual pictures of life. But the life of which it had command was seldom attractive, often narrow, local, and of a kind which meant keen personal satire more than any broader view of human existence. A group of commonplace clergymen, intense against their little parochial background as only the most real art of portraiture, intensified by individual scorn and dislike, could have made them: the circle of limited interests, small emulations, keen little spites and rancours, filling the atmosphere of a great boarding school, the BrusselsPensionnat des filles—these were the two spheres chiefly portrayed: but portrayed with an absolute untempered force which knew neither charity, softness, nor even impartiality, but burned upon the paper and made everything round dim in the contrast. I imagine it was this extraordinary naked force which was the great cause of a success, never perhaps like the numerical successes in literature of the present day, when edition follows edition, and thousand thousand, of the books which are the favourites of the public: but one which has lived and lasted through nearly half a century, and is even now potent enough to carry on a little literature of its own, book after book following each other not so much to justify as to reproclaim and echo to all the winds the fame originally won. No one else of the century, I think, has called forth this persevering and lasting homage.

Catherine Crowe: Gender, Genre, and Radical Politics

Catherine Crowe: Gender, Genre, and Radical Politics
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9781000173239
ISBN-13 : 1000173232
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Synopsis Catherine Crowe: Gender, Genre, and Radical Politics by : Ruth Heholt

This is the first full-length study of the popular Victorian writer Catherine Crowe (1790-1872). Crowe is increasingly being recognised as an important and influential figure in the literary and Spiritualist circles of the nineteenth century. This monograph offers a reassessment of her major works, arguing that her writing is prescient. Best known today for her collection of "real" ghost tales The Night Side of Nature: or of Ghosts and Ghost Seers, Crowe also wrote five popular novels as well as numerous short stories and essays. Innovative and sometimes original in their use of genre, her works cover the Newgate genre, help to initiate detective fiction, include elements of the social problem novels of the 1840s, and point the way to the sensation novels of the 1860s. Politically radical in many ways Crowe was vocal about women’s oppression by men, social inequality, poverty, slavery, and animal rights. This volume aims to restore an author who was "[o]nce as famous as Dickens or Thackeray" (Wilson 1986, v) to her proper place in the scholarly discussion of Victorian literature.

Paul Clifford, by the author of 'Pelham'. by sir E. Bulwer-Lytton [with an appendix entitled] Tomlinsoniana; or, The posthumous writings of A. Tomlinson [really by sir E. Bulwer-Lytton?].

Paul Clifford, by the author of 'Pelham'. by sir E. Bulwer-Lytton [with an appendix entitled] Tomlinsoniana; or, The posthumous writings of A. Tomlinson [really by sir E. Bulwer-Lytton?].
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Total Pages : 364
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Synopsis Paul Clifford, by the author of 'Pelham'. by sir E. Bulwer-Lytton [with an appendix entitled] Tomlinsoniana; or, The posthumous writings of A. Tomlinson [really by sir E. Bulwer-Lytton?]. by : Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.)

Saint James's: Or, The Court of Queen Anne

Saint James's: Or, The Court of Queen Anne
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Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : KBNL:KBNL03000044809
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Synopsis Saint James's: Or, The Court of Queen Anne by : William Harrison Ainsworth

A Shilling Cookery for the People

A Shilling Cookery for the People
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Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : OXFORD:600070619
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Synopsis A Shilling Cookery for the People by : Alexis Soyer

Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of Appreciations

Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of Appreciations
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Publisher : Good Press
Total Pages : 177
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ISBN-10 : EAN:4057664637208
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Synopsis Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of Appreciations by : Adeline Sergeant

"Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of Appreciations" by Adeline Sergeant, Charlotte M. Yonge, E. Lynn Linton, Mrs. Alexander, Mrs. Oliphant, Edna Lyall, Katharine S. Macquoid, Emma Marshall, Louisa Parr. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.