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Author: Ralph Pite
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-05-17
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1040129218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Ralph Pite
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-05-31
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 1040128785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Ralph Pite
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-05-17
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 1040129455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a collection of biographical records portraying the life of Rudyard Kipling, drawn from official biographies, memoirs, testimonies, letters, diaries, conversations, anecdotes, essays, and reviews.
Author: Aileen Christianson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-05-31
Total Pages: 515
ISBN-13: 1040128688
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas 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: Ralph Pite
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-05-31
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1040128939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConsiders 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: Marianna Kambani
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-05-17
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 1040128777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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
Published: 2024-05-31
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1040128866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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
Published: 2024-05-17
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1040129250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollected 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
Published: 2024-05-17
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 104012951X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart 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.
Author: K. Macdonald
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-03-22
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1137486775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the connections evident between the simultaneous emergence of British modernism and middlebrow literary culture from 1880 to the 1930s. The essays illustrate the mutual influences of modernist and middlebrow authors, critics, publishers and magazines.
