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Critical and Biographical Sources

Reviews of Major Works

227. Nellie’s Memories

– Athenaeum 5 December 1868: 750.

– Pall Mall Gazette 3 December 1868: 12.

228. Wee Wifie

– Athenaeum 11 December 1869: 776.

229. Barbara Heathcote ‘s Trial

– Athenaeum 4 November 1871: 592.

– Graphic 4 (11 November 1871): 463.

230. Robert Ord’s Atonement

– Athenaeum 17 May 1873: 627.

231. Wooed and Married

– no reviews yet found.

232. Heriot’s Choice

– Academy 17 (7 February 1880): 100, signed James Davies.

– Athenaeum 10 January 1880: 52.

– Graphic 21 (14 February 1880): 182.

233. Queenie ‘s Whim

– Academy 19 (12 March 1881): 186, signed Leonora B. Lang.

– Athenaeum 2 April 1881: 457.

– Graphic 23 (19 March 1881): 275.

234. Mary St. John

– Academy 22 (9 December 1882): 411-2.

– Athenaeum 23 December 1882: 845.

235. Not Like Other Girls

– Academy 25 (22 March 1884): 199, signed George Saintsbury.

– Athenaeum 22 March 1884: 372.

– Graphic 29 (7 June 1884): 559.

– Nation 38 (22 May 1884): 449.

236. For Lilias

– Academy 28 (26 September 1885): 200, signed William Wallace.

– Athenaeum 26 September 1885: 398.

– Graphic 32 (7 November 1885): 523.

237. Uncle Max

– Academy 31 (5 February 1887): 90, signed Richard Littledale.

– Athenaeum 5 February 1887: 189.

– Graphic 35 (26 March 1887): 334

238. Only the Governess

– Academy 33 (17 March 1888): 184, signed William Sharp; (accompanying reviews are of Ward’s Robert Elsmere and Moore’s Confessions of a Young Man).

– Athenaeum 17 March 1888: 337.

– Graphic 37 (24 March 1888): 319.

239. The Search for Basil Lyndhurst

– Academy 36 (20 July 1889): 36, signed George Saintsbury.

– Athenaeum 15 June 1889: 755.

– Graphic 40 (13 July 1889): 48.

240. Lover or Friend?

– Academy 38 (11 October 1890): 315, signed G. Barnett Smith.

– Athenaeum 27 September 1890: 414.

– Spectator 65 (25 October 1890): 566-7.

– Graphic 42 (8 November 1890): 534.

241. “But Men Must Work”

– Academy 42 (3 September 1892): 191, signed George Cotterell.

– Athenaeum 100 (3 September 1892): 317-8.

– Graphic 46 (15 October 1892): 468.

242. Sir Godfrey’s Granddaughters

– Academy 42 (24 December 1892): 586, signed James Ashcroft Noble.

– Athenaeum 100 (5 November 1892): 626.

– Spectator 70 (28 January 1893): 131.

– Graphical (25 March 1893): 318.

243. Mrs Romney

– Graphic 50 (13 October 1894): 434.

– Literary World (Boston) 27 (1896): 202.

244. The Old Old Story

– Academy 46 (3 November 1894): 347-8.

– Athenaeum 104 (29 September 1894): 418.

– Spectator 13 (20 October 1894): 531-2.

245. The Mistress of Brae Farm

– Literary World (Boston) 27 (1896): 456.

– Graphic 55 6 March 1897): 290.

– Spectator 78 (26 June 1897): 896.

246. Dr. Luttrell’s First Patient

– Athenaeum 110 (6 November 1897): 630.

– Literary World (Boston) 28 (1897): 279.

247. Other People’s Lives

– Athenaeum 111 (8 January 1898): 49 (title given as ‘Other People’s Sins’).

– Literature 2 (16 April 1898): 449.

248. Mol lie’s Prince

– Academy 54 (1 October 1898): 326

– Athenaeum 112 (29 October 1898): 604.

– Literature 4 (4 March 1899): 239.

249. My Lady Frivol

– Literature 6 (6 January 1900): 23.

2.50. Twelve Notable Good Women of the Nineteenth Century

– Literature 6 (6 January 1900): 12.

– New York Times 31 March 1900: 222.

251. Life’s Trivial Pound

– Athenaeum 115 (16 June 1900): 745.

– New York Times 23 June 1900: 420.

252. Rue with a Difference

– Academy 59 (13 October 1900): 310.

– Academy 59 (3 November 1900): 413.

– Athenaeum 116 (24 November 1900): 680.

– Hearth and Home 20 (22 November 1900): 106, [Arnold Bennett].

– Literature 1 (3 November 1900): 349-50.

– Bookman 19 (January 1901): 131.

253. Herb of Grace

– Academy 61 (21 September 1901): 242.

– Bookman 21 (October 1901): 27-8.

– Athenaeum 119 (11 January 1902): 45.

254. The Highway of Fate

– Academy 63 (20 September 1902): 288.

– Athenaeum 120 (11 October 1902): 482.

255. A Passage Perilous

– Academy 65 (26 September 1903): 292.

– Athenaeum 122 (July – December 1903): 513.

– New York Times 24 October 1903: 756.

256. At the Moorings

– Academy 67 (5 November 1904): 438.

– Athenaeum 124 (24 December 1904): 869.

– Bookman 28 (April 1905): 31.

– New York Times 12 November 1904: 765.

257. The Household of Peter

– Athenaeum (21 October 1905): 539.

258. No Friend Like a Sister

– Athenaeum (13 October 1906): 439.

259. The Angel of Forgiveness

– no reviews yet found.

260. The Sunny Side of the Hill

– Academy 45 (17 October 1908): 377.

– Athenaeum (17 October 1908): 469.

– Bookman 35 (November 1908): 102.

– New York Times 20 February 1909: 103.

261. The Key to the Unknown

– Athenaeum (2 October 1909): 389.

– New York Times 30 October 1909: 674.

“LE VOLEUR” REVIEWS

262. By Order of the Brotherhood

– Academy 47 (1 June 1895): 462, signed G. Barnett Smith.

263. For Love of a Bedouin Maid

– Academy 52 (6 November 1897): Fiction Supplement 101.

– Spectator 80 (22 January 1898): 125.

264. In the Tsar’s Dominions

– Spectator 82 (14 January 1899): 58.

265. The Champington Mystery

– no reviews yet found.

OBITUARIES

266. The Times (London) 20 July 1909, p.13c; (death and funeral notice 21 July, p.lb).

267. The Times (New York) 20 July 1909, p.7f.

268. Athenaeum (24 July 1909): 99.

269. Graphic 80 (31 July 1909): 158; photograph and brief notice.

270. Bookman 36 (August 1909): 200, plus portrait.

OTHER PUBLISHED MATERIAL

271. Allibone’s Critical Dictionary, Supplement toed. John Foster Kirk, Philadelphia: J.B.Lippincott, 1891; reprinted Detroit: Gale Research, 1965.

272. Bibliophile Dictionary New York, London: The International Bibliophile Society, 1904; reprinted Detroit: Gale Research, 1966.

273. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day London: Maclaren, 1906, pp.(144)-156, includes portrait; (“revised, enlarged and brought up to date” version of article originally published in Lady’s Pictorial c.1890).

274. Cooper, A.B. ‘The Mottoes of Distinguished Men and Women’ The Sunday at Home November 1909-April 1910, pp.15- 23.

275. de la Mare, Walter ‘Women Novelists of the “Seventies”‘, in TheEighteen-Seventies ed. H. Granville-Barker, Cambridge: C.U.P., 1929, pp.45-79.

276. A Descriptive Guide to the Best Fiction British and American ed. Ernest A. Baker, London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1903.

277. Dictionary of National Biography Second Supplement ed. Sir Sidney Lee, London: Smith, Elder, 1912.

278. A Feminist Companion to Literature in English ed. Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, London: Batsford, (forthcoming; estimated publication date May 1990).

279. Gorsky, Susan ‘The Gentle Doubters: Images of Women in Englishwomens’s Novels, 1840-1920’ in Images of Women in Fiction ed. Susan Koppelman Cornillon, Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1973, pp.28-54.

280. A Guide to the Best Fiction ed. Ernest A. Baker and James Packman, New York: Barnes and Noble, 1967.

281. Longman Companion to Twentieth Century Literature ed. A.C. Ward, Harlow: Longman, 1970, p.113.

282. Morgan, Charles The House of Macmillan (1843 – 1943) London: Macmillan, 1943, p.184,

283. New Century Cyclopedia of Names ed. Clarence L. Barnhart, New York: Appleton, Century, Crofts, 1954.

284. Novels in English By Women, 1891 – 1920 ed. Janet Grimes and Diva Daims, New York and London: Garland, 1981.

285. Pratt, Alfred T. Camden People of the Period London: Beeman, 1897.

286. Showalter, Elaine A Literature of Their Own London: Virago, 1977.

287. Sutherland, John. Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Harlow: Longman, 1988.

288. Tooley, Sarah A. ‘Some Women Novelists’ Woman at Home 7(1897): 161-211, includes portrait.

289. Vicinus, Martha ‘What Makes a Heroine? Nineteenth-Century Girls’ Biographies’ Genre 22 (1987): 171-188.

290. ‘Who’s Who in Literature’ London Magazine 11 (1903/4): 177-190, includes portrait.

291. Who Was Who in Literature, 1906-1934 Detroit: Omnigraphics Gale Research, 1979.

292. Wolff, Robert Lee Nineteenth Century Fiction: a Bibliographical Catalogue New York and London: Garland, 1981.

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