Provides incisive accounts of 345 writers' lives and works, including critical responses and bibliographies. The authors include novelists, playwrights, and poets who have ...

Traces Mrs. Oliphant's self education, her progress from provencial to cosmopolite, and her views on her contemporaries.

Encouraged by the response of the avid novel-reading public in early nineteenth-century England, minor novelists produced a staggering number of volumes that shaped styles ...