Author: Aileen Christianson Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040128688 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 515
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Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle moved from rural Scotland to London's Cheyne Walk. This title focuses on writers for whom 'the centre' was a pressing concern. Elizabeth Gaskell, like her contemporary Emily Bronte, was from the north of England, though based in Lancashire and Cheshire rather than Yorkshire. Her first novel, Mary Barton 1848) was set in the north and was unusually realistic in its depiction of Manchester working-class life. Ruskin grew up in suburban London; in later life, he settled in the Lake District . The three volumes that comprise a set are facsimile reproductions of contemporary biographical material. They include letters, memoirs, poems and articles on three outstanding Victorian literary persons: John Ruskin, Elzabeth Gaskell and the Carlyles.
Author: Valerie Sanders Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040129358 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 483
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Elizabeth Gaskell, like her contemporary Emily Bronte, was from the north of England, though based in Lancashire and Cheshire rather than Yorkshire. Her first novel, Mary Barton (1848) was set in the north and was unusually realistic in its depiction of Manchester working-class life. Ruskin grew up in suburban London; in later life, he settled in the Lake District . Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle moved in the opposite direction - from rural Scotland to London's Cheyne Walk. This title focuses on writers for whom 'the centre' was a pressing concern. The three volumes that comprise a set are facsimile reproductions of contemporary biographical material. They include letters, memoirs, poems and articles on three outstanding Victorian literary persons: John Ruskin, Elzabeth Gaskell and the Carlyles.
Author: Ralph Pite Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040129196 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 327
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Ruskin grew up in suburban London; in later life, he settled in the Lake District. Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle moved from rural Scotland to London's Cheyne Walk. This title focuses on writers for whom 'the centre' was a pressing concern. Elizabeth Gaskell, like her contemporary Emily Bronte, was from the north of England, though based in Lancashire and Cheshire rather than Yorkshire. Her first novel, Mary Barton 1848) was set in the north and was unusually realistic in its depiction of Manchester working-class life.. The three volumes that comprise a set are facsimile reproductions of contemporary biographical material. They include letters, memoirs, poems and articles on three outstanding Victorian literary persons: John Ruskin, Elzabeth Gaskell and the Carlyles.
Author: Marianna Kambani Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040128777 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 480
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The three volumes that comprise this set are facsimile reproductions of contemporary biographical material. They include letters, memoirs, poems and articles on three outstanding Victorian literary partnerships. These are the Brownings, Brontes and the Rossettis.
Author: Ralph Pite Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040128866 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 365
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In their own time, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson and Algernon Charles Swinburne were highly successful writers. Part of the "Lives of Victorian Literary Figures" series, this three-volume facsimile edition draws together a range of biographical sources relating to these three celebrated Victorian authors.
Author: Ralph Pite Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040128939 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 342
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Considers the reputations and biographical portrayal of three innovative and controversial writers: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins and William Thackeray. These anthologies of contemporary biographical material shed light on the processes at work in the establishment of a public image and a critical reputation.
Author: Hester Jones Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040128645 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 253
Book Description
The three volumes that comprise this set are facsimile reproductions of contemporary biographical material. They include letters, memoirs, poems and articles on three outstanding Victorian literary partnerships. These are the Brownings, Brontes and the Rossettis.
Author: Ralph Pite Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040129250 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 361
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Collected here are the biographies which revealed aspects of their subjects that the more favourable "official" accounts tended to hide. The life of the author of each text is described, and their relation to the writers they portray is sketched in.
Author: Ralph Pite Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040129218 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 323
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This book looks at Rider Haggard from a different standpoint, his own. It carries a selection of critical appraisals of Haggard's work by his contemporaries up until the early 1950s.
Author: Harriet Devine Jump Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000748294 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 387
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This volume sheds light on contemporary perception of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, a biographically and intellectually compelling literary family of the Romantic period. The writings reveal the personalities of the subjects, and the motives and agendas of the biographers.
Author: Aileen Christianson
Author: Valerie Sanders
Author: Ralph Pite
Author: Marianna Kambani
Author: Ralph Pite
Author: Ralph Pite
Author: Hester Jones
Author: Ralph Pite
Author: Ralph Pite
Author: Harriet Devine Jump