Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part IV, Volume 1

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part IV, Volume 1
Author: Ralph Pite
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2024-05-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 104012920X

Part 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.

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part IV, Volume 2

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part IV, Volume 2
Author: Ralph Pite
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2024-05-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 104012951X

Part 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.

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part IV, Volume 3

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part IV, Volume 3
Author: Ralph Pite
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2024-05-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040129048

Part 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.

Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part IV Vol 1

Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part IV Vol 1
Author: Nancy LoPatin-Lummis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2021-12-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000558908

First 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 1 covers John Stuart Mill.

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part IV, Volume 1

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part IV, Volume 1
Author: Gail Marshall
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2024-05-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040128890

Features three female actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare.

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part V, Volume 1

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part V, Volume 1
Author: Ralph Pite
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2024-05-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040128610

Considers 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.

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII, Volume 1

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII, Volume 1
Author: Ralph Pite
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2024-05-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040128785

This volume presents documents that roughly follow the chronology of Joseph Conrad's life and deliberately considers two documents that reveal surprising and important facts that Conrad had carefully concealed.

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part II, Volume 1

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part II, Volume 1
Author: Simon Avery
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2024-05-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040129269

The 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.

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VI, Volume 1

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VI, Volume 1
Author: Ralph Pite
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2024-05-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040128947

In 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.

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part I, Volume 1

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part I, Volume 1
Author: Ralph Pite
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2024-05-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 104012884X

Collected 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.