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crime fiction
A single problem defines crime fiction during the Edwardian period: the problem of of Sherlock Holmes. From the first appearance of Arthur Conan Doyle's amateur detective in A Study in ...
Divine Fire
May Sinclair, 1904, Archibald Constable.This blockbuster romance features a poet of indeterminate class and determinate genius: Gissing's themes are given the Ethel M. Dell treatment. Savage (a name, ...
exoticism
The ‘exotic’ sound of other musical traditions has been one of the resources of Western music since about 1500. Perhaps the earliest example is Heinrich Isaac's La la hö hö ...
His Hour
Elinor Glyn, 1910, Duckworth.Communing with the Sphinx in the Egyptian desert, recently widowed Tamara Loraine realizes that her life has been ‘one long commonplace vista of following leads—like a ...
Marie Corelli
(1855–1924),novelist. Her first novel, A Romance of Two Worlds (1886), was followed by many more romantic melodramas. She hypnotized her public with her exuberant imagination and her far‐fetched ...
Maud Diver
(1867–1945) married (?1896) Thomas Diver (1860–1941).Born at Murree in north India, the daughter of an officer in the Indian army, she was brought up in India and Ceylon, although ...
Pearson's Magazine
(1899–1925),monthly magazine devoted to literature, politics, and the arts, was founded as a New York affiliate of the London periodical of this name, some part of whose contents it ...
publishers
During 1900–14 British fiction publishing, like the rest of the industry, was in the process of transition in response to technological advances and the expansion of the market. Moreover, fiction ...
Way of an Eagle
Ethel M. Dell, 1912, T. Fisher Unwin.Nick Ratcliffe, a young subaltern, rescues Muriel Roscoe, little more than a child, during an uprising on the north-west frontier of India. She ...
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