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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 ...
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.
Birchbark Books, also known by its full name, Birchbark Books & Native Arts, is an independent bookstore in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the Kenwood neighborhood. Selling both books and works of art, it was founded by Pulitzer Prize –winning Native American novelist Louise Erdrich ( Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians [ 2 ] ) in 2001.
In “Hoaxes,” Violet’s capricious and gullible half-sister Sephora is reading lurid stories about theHermetic Order of the Children of Aed, possibly modeled after the real-life Hermetic Order ...
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.
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.
Harriette Wilson (2 February 1786 – 10 March 1845) was an English courtesan and writer. The author of The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson: Written by Herself (1825), she was a famed Regency era courtesan who became the mistress of the Earl of Craven at the age of 15.
The second novel in the series parallels Edwin Clayhanger's story from the point of view of his eventual wife, Hilda, telling the story of her coming of age, her working experiences as a shorthand clerk and as a keeper of lodging houses in London and Brighton, her relationship with George Cannon, which ends in her disastrous bigamous marriage and pregnancy, and her reconciliation with Edwin ...