Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
_Having been concerned for many years in the publication of works of fiction by feminine writers, it has occurred to us to offer, as our contribution to the celebration of "the longest Reign," a volume having for its subject leading Women Novelists of the Victorian Era._
It is a curious instance of the change of fashion and the transient nature of popular memory that great difficulty is experienced in obtaining copies of Mrs. Norton's works, esp...
13. Part 13Now, all these social dogmas must have had an immense influence on the receptive mind of Dinah Mulock, and readers must not lose sight of this fact should they be inclined to ca...
14. Part 14The objections we feel to novels of this class are well stated by a writer in the _Edinburgh Review_, No. clxxxix. "We object," he says, "on principle to stories written with th...
8. Part 8"I do not love you. I did once. Don't say I did not love you then; but I do not now. I could never love you again. All you have said and done since you came to Abermouth has onl...
9. Part 9It is worth noting that Mrs. Crowe's ideas respecting the status and education of women were, for the days in which she lived, exceedingly "advanced." In "Lilly Dawson," for ins...
4. Part 4The marriage which--after all these wild embodiments of the longing and solitary heart which could not consent to abandon its share in life, after Shirley and Lucy Snowe, and th...
11. Part 11It has been computed that Mrs. Wood wrote not fewer than from three to four hundred short stories, every one of them with a distinct and carefully worked-out plot, in addition t...
7. Part 7That she should ever have loved, or even fancied she loved, such a frozen fish as Grandcourt was impossible to a girl so full of energy as Gwendolen is shown to be. Clear in her...
12. Part 12At nineteen, Julia Collinson became the wife of Walter de Winton, Esquire, of Maedlwch Castle, Radnorshire; but after only twelve years was left a widow, with two sons and a dau...
10. Part 10It is rather curious, too, that Mrs. Clive should have written another volume to explain _why_ Paul Ferroll killed his wife; but possibly she thought further explanation was nec...
5. Part 5The light that seemed to flash on the world when this glorious book was published will never be forgotten by those who were old enough at the time to read and appreciate. By the...
15. Part 15"To say that she glares vacantly at me from behind her spectacles, loses her very power of speech, and grows all at once quite stiff and rigid in her chair, is to convey but a f...
3. Part 3It was at a different age and in other circumstances that Charlotte Bronte made her deep and extraordinary study of the Brussels Pensionnat. She was twenty-seven; she had alread...
2. Part 2I remember well the extraordinary thrill of interest which in the midst of all the Mrs. Gores, Mrs. Marshs, &c.--the latter name is mentioned along with those of Thackeray and D...
6. Part 6Take the last first. Grant all the honour paid by Cosmo and Lorenzo to the learned men of all nations, especially to Greek scholars who, in the first fervour of the Renaissance,...
1. Part 1_Having been concerned for many years in the publication of works of fiction by feminine writers, it has occurred to us to offer, as our contribution to the celebration of "the...
17. Part 17Mrs. Ewing's love for animals may be seen in all her stories--Leonard's beloved "Sweep," Lollo the red-haired pony on which Jackanapes took his first ride, and the dog in the bl...