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WORD PORTRAITS OF FAMOUS WRITERS BY MABEL E. WOTTON
"The world has always loved the details of a man who respects men who are celebrated." These were the words of Lord Beaconsfield, and in them he symbolized his description of Isaac D’Israel’s personal appearance; but we do not need the speech of our greatest official to convince ourselves that in all cases every sincere book lover has a genuine interest in each of those men whose names remain on his lips. It is not enough for such a person to become acquainted with their writings. It is not enough for him that the News of Elijah, for example, can be memorized, but he feels that he must also be able to sit on Christ's playing field with a “lame boy,” even years later. to speed up the ...
Daughters of Decadence
This collection brings together 20 short stories of the "fin-de-siecle" and includes such writers as George Egerton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Vernon Lee, Ada Leverson and Olive Schreiner. The stories range from the lyrical to the Gothic and frequently deal with the conflicts of women writers. At the turn of the century, short stories by- and often about- 'New Women' flooded the pages of English and American magazines like The Yellow Book, The Savoy, Atlantic Monthly and Harpers. This daring new fiction, often innovative in form, and courageous in its candid literary aspiration, shocked Victorian critics who parodied the experimental stories in Punch as symptoms of fin de siecle decadence, o...
Fictions of Dissent
Fin-de-siècle fiction by British female aesthetes and American women regionalists stages moments of rebellion when female characters rise up and insist on the right to maintain control of their creations. Cordell asserts that these revolutionary acts constitute a transatlantic conversation about aesthetic practice and creative ownership.
A New Woman Reader
In the 1890s one phrase above all stood as shorthand for the various controversies over gender that swirled throughout the period: “the New Woman.” In New Women fiction, progressive writers such as Sarah Grand, George Egerton, and Ella D’Arcy gave imaginative life to the plight of modern women—and reactionaries such as Grant Allen attempted to put women back in their place. In all the leading journals of the day these and other writers argued their cases in essays, letters, and reviews as well as in fiction. This anthology brings together for the first time a representative selection of the most important, interesting, and influential of New Woman writings.
