Sketches of Irish Character

Sketches of Irish Character
Author: Marion Durnin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2015-09-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317303970

Born in Dublin into the Anglo-Irish gentry, Anna Maria Hall moved to London when she was fifteen where she became famous for her books, plays and travel writing. It was her book, Sketches of Irish Character (1829) which made her a household name. This modern critical edition is based on Hall's third, revised edition of 1844.

The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction

The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction
Author: John Sutherland
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 708
Release: 1989
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780804718424

An engaging guide to a rich literary heritage, The Stanford Companion presents a fascinating parade of novels, authors, publishers, editors, reviewers, illustrators, and periodicals that created the culture of Victorian fiction. Its more than 6,000 alphabetical entries provide an incomparable range of useful and little-known source material, its scholarship enlivened by the author's wit and candor.