Actor
The need to express emotion, whether in music, dancing, gesture, or speech, seems to be inherent in man, and to have developed originally in connection with religious observances. Nothing is ...
Anna Wheeler
(1785–1848)Closely associated with Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Wheeler was a radical feminist and an Irish Protestant. A keen advocate of women's rights, she wrote that ‘with the emancipation of women ...
characterization
The representation of persons in narrative and dramatic works. This may include direct methods like the attribution of qualities in description or commentary, and indirect (or ‘dramatic’) methods ...
Cheap Repository Tracts
A series of over one hundred entertaining moral tales, ballads, sermons, and Bible stories published by the Cheap Repository press (1795–8), many of which are by the evangelical writer Hannah ...
domestic Fiction
Didactic and exemplary fiction centered in the “woman's sphere” and focusing on the concerns of women's lives, was the best-selling literary genre of nineteenth-century America. Hawthorne's notorious ...
Englishness, Dickens's
‘Boz is a truly national author—English to the backbone’, wrote the Quarterly Review (June 1839) in one early attempt to explain his popularity. The next year Thomas Hood was praising ...
Felicia Hemans
(1793–1835),a precocious and copious poet, born in Liverpool and educated at home. She published her first volume of Poems when she was 15, and in 1812 married Captain Hemans, from whom she lived ...
Frank Stone
(b Manchester, 22 Aug. 1800; d London, 18 Nov. 1859).English painter and illustrator. He began his working life as a cotton spinner and was evidently self-taught as an artist. ...
John Leech
(1817–64),caricaturist and illustrator, a friend of Thackeray and of Dickens, whose A Christmas Carol and other Christmas books he illustrated. From 1841 until his death he contributed to Punch ...
Maria Edgeworth
(1768–1849),novelist: b. Black Bourton; educ. Derby; school holidays at Northchurch 1776–80; lives in Edgeworthstown 1782–1849; visits Bristol (Clifton) 1791, 1799, Edinburgh 1803, 1823, Abbotsford ...
novelists and the novel during Dickens's lifetime
One sense of the huge importance of Dickens to the development of the 19th-century novel can be gauged from the adjective derived from his name. The Oxford English Dictionary has ...
popularity of Dickens
Dickens's popularity was almost instantaneous, relatively classless, and soon worldwide; it has endured and remains unique in literature. England, to its great good fortune, has produced in him and ...
sensibility
A way of feeling. A person's aesthetic or ethical sensibility is described by telling what kinds of situation generate different kinds of aesthetic or ethical response. The cult of sensibility in the ...
sentiment
A sentiment is an attitude, in favour of or against people and their actions, which may involve both judgement and emotion. The term ‘sentiment’ has also been used, as by ...
Sir Henry Rowley Bishop
(b London, 18 Nov. 1786; d London, 30 April 1855).English composer and conductor. He studied with Francesco Bianchi. In 1810 he was appointed composer and musical director at Covent ...
theatricals, private
Amateur performances of plays, were highly popular in the period among all social classes. They were fashionable among the aristocracy, who staged lavish events, involving considerable expenditure on ...
Thomas Stothard
(b London, 17 Aug. 1755; d London 27 Apr. 1834).English painter, book illustrator, and designer. He was a prolific and versatile artist, admired for his work in various fields. ...
women
The Buddha's attitude towards women was not radically different from that of his contemporaries. For male renunciates pursuing the religious life, women were seen as a temptation and a snare. The ...
women and women's issues
At the heart of Dickens's ideology lies the image of the domestic woman, ‘made for Home, for fireside peace and happiness’ (OT 29), an ideal expressed in its purest form ...
women musicians and composers
Although most of the celebrated women musicians of our period attained fame as performers, many women also composed, and several achieved public recognition for their vocal and instrumental works. ...
