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Birch is serving as the General Editor of the 2012 edition of the Oxford Companion to English Literature. [4] She is the author of Our Victorian Education (2008), writes regularly for the TLS and the LRB, and contributes to arts programmes on radio and television. In December 2011, Birch was named as a member of the jury for the 2012 Man Booker ...
East Lynne, or, The Earl's Daughter is an 1861 English sensation novel by Ellen Wood, writing as Mrs. Henry Wood.A Victorian-era bestseller, it is remembered chiefly for its elaborate and implausible plot centering on infidelity and double identities.
It was established in 1972 as the Newsletter of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, before becoming a peer-reviewed journal in 1989. [1] It publishes research articles, as well as book reviews. The editors-in-chief are Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge (University of Victoria).
Ellen Price (17 January 1814 – 10 February 1887), better known as Mrs. Henry Wood, was an English novelist.She is best remembered for her 1861 novel East Lynne.Many of her books sold well internationally and were widely read in the United States.
George Darley was a staff critic during the early years, and Gerald Massey contributed many literary reviews – mainly on poetry – during the period 1858 to 1868. George Henry Caunter was one of the principal early contributors, writing reviews of French-language books. [1] His brother John Hobart Caunter also contributed reviews. [2] H. F.
REVIEW: 3/5 Ford is the hero of the hour, playing even the flimsiest scenes with conviction and dry humour, in a film that feels like a mishmash of elements from the older movies
The novel details the lives of two very opposite Victorian women, Agnes and Sugar, who revolve on the linchpin of William Rackham. He is the unwilling and somewhat bumbling heir to a perfume business, with moderate success and little self-awareness. He marries the exquisitely doll-like Agnes, even though he barely knew her.
Giles Lytton Strachey (/ ˈ dʒ aɪ l z ˈ l ɪ t ən ˈ s t r eɪ tʃ i /; [1] 1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was an English writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit.