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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: Ralph Pite
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-05-31
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1040129048
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: Ralph Pite
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-05-17
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 104012920X
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: 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: 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: Nancy LoPatin-Lummis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-16
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1000558924
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2009, this is a collection of carefully selected extracts from biographies, memoirs, diaries, private letters and other ephemera reveal how these key nineteenth-century figures were viewed by their contemporaries. Volume 3 covers Walter Bagehot.
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: 2024-05-31
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: 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.
