Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part II, Volume 2

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part II, Volume 2

Author: Marianna Kambani

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-17

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 1040128777

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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.


Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part I, Volume 2

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part I, Volume 2

Author: Ralph Pite

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-17

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1040129250

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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.


Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part II, Volume 3

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part II, Volume 3

Author: Hester Jones

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-31

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1040128645

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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.


Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part III, Volume 2

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part III, Volume 2

Author: Aileen Christianson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-31

Total Pages: 515

ISBN-13: 1040128688

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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.


Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part II, Volume 1

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part II, Volume 1

Author: Simon Avery

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-17

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 1040129269

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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.


Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VI, Volume 2

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VI, Volume 2

Author: Ralph Pite

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-31

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1040128866

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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.


Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part IV, Volume 2

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part IV, Volume 2

Author: Ralph Pite

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-17

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 104012951X

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Part of the "Lives of Victorian Literary Figures" series, this set collects contemporary memoirs, biographies and ephemera relating to Oscar Wilde, Henry James and Edith Wharton. Editorial apparatus includes a general introduction, headnotes, endnotes and a general index.


Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part V, Volume 2

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part V, Volume 2

Author: Ralph Pite

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-31

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1040128939

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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.


Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII, Volume 2

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII, Volume 2

Author: Ralph Pite

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-17

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1040129218

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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.


Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII, Volume 1

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII, Volume 1

Author: Ralph Pite

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-31

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 1040128785

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This volume presents documents that roughly follow the chronology of Joseph Conrad's life and deliberately considers two documents that reveal surprising and important facts that Conrad had carefully concealed.