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Friswell, Laura Hain (d. 1908) Reference library
Oxford Reader's Companion to Trollope
...Laura Hain (later Myall ) ( d. 1908 ) , author of children's books and a memoir of her father J. H. Friswell . Meeting Trollope at the Dickens banquet in November 1867 , she was impressed by the ‘nice old gentleman’ (then 52) who told her that authors never forgot those who admired their works ( I & R 98). Trollope 's old world courtesy and skittishness were directed towards many young ladies. RCT R. C....
Harper, Fletcher (1806–77) Reference library
Oxford Reader's Companion to Trollope
...copyright laws, payments and book-rights were acrimonious issues: Harper ‘had been reprinting his books, sometimes paying some little sum to the English publisher. In 1859 he had declined to buy early sheets for The West Indies , but then published the book anyway’ (Hall 230). In 1862 Trollope called on Harper in New York ‘and explained to him, with what courtesy I could use, that I did not quite like his mode of republishing my books. He was civil enough to assure me that the transaction had been gratifying to him’ ( Letters 1, 195)....
Smith, Elder and Company Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the Brontes
...met their clerk, W. S. Williams , whom Smith engaged in 1845 as a literary adviser. In April 1843 Smith, Elder published the first volume of Ruskin 's Modern Painters , which in 1848 gave Charlotte new insights into art in general and J. W. M. Turner in particular. By courtesy of her publishers Charlotte saw and admired several other works by Ruskin, who was later to become dissatisfied with Smith, Elder. After 1878 he transferred his work wholly to George Allen . Despite the appointment of managers, the firm lacked a consistent policy, and...
Trollope, Thomas Adolphus (1810–92) Reference library
Oxford Reader's Companion to Trollope
...prepared to live hand to mouth in order to sustain his extraordinary ménage. Anthony's American friend Kate Field wrote of the Villino Trollope how ‘under its stately colonnades Italian radicals argued with double firsts from Oxford, and the poets of the new Italy … exchanged courtesies and sipped the famous Trollopian lemonade’ (Stebbins and Stebbins 183). In April 1848 , “dear old Tom”, as the entire Anglo-Italian community knew him, married Theodosia Garrow , and their only daughter Beatrice (Bice) was born in 1853 . Tom 's earlier writings tend to be...
letters by the Brontë family Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the Brontes
...evident in the 70 or so letters of 1848–9 . Their more sporadic correspondence during the slow gestation of Villette tails off to a sad, flat conclusion in Charlotte's laconic letter to Mr Williams of 6 December 1853 , asking him not to ‘select or send any more books. These courtesies must cease some day—and I would rather give them up than wear them out.’ At their best, the letters to him are rich in personal insights and reflections of contemporary life. Charlotte writes about the French Revolution of 1848 , Chartism, education, governesses, and the...
copyright Reference library
Robert Patten
The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens
...with America granting reciprocal privileges to subjects or citizens of other countries. Dickens's own books were for the most part published in the United States by agreement, various publishers securing from him, for a few pounds, proofs or advanced sheets or later stereotypes of his latest work, and then announcing in American papers that they were publishing that title ( see editions: foreign english-language editions of Dickens's works ). By ‘trade courtesy’, a long-standing practice, other publishers would not rush out competing editions—except when a...
letters Reference library
Oxford Reader's Companion to Hardy
...with domestic matters, responding to questions about his beliefs, his writings, his feelings, on topics as diverse as growing onions and the future of humanity. A natural courtesy pervades Hardy's letters. Only rarely does he react with irritation to some accusation or misrepresentation. He disliked inveterate autograph-hunters, especially those who are ‘in the habit of sending me my own books for the purpose, & (as I regret to find) selling them afterwards for double the price they paid for them’ ( L v 168). As the flood of requests continued, Hardy suggested...
Agnes Grey. A Novel Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the Brontes
...because of her marriage to him, and he loses his patrimony through an unwise speculation. The 18‐year‐old Agnes, believing that she can help her family, becomes a governess in the household of a wealthy retired tradesman, Mr Bloomfield of Wellwood . Treated at first with cold courtesy by his wife, Agnes realizes she will not be able to complain to her about her disobedient, rude, and destructive pupils: the bullying and sadistic 7‐year‐old Tom, and his mischievous and deceitful younger sisters Mary and Fanny . Both parents blame Agnes, in the children's...
political issues in Trollope's fiction Reference library
Oxford Reader's Companion to Trollope
...were pretty consistently liberal, as his praise of American egalitarianism, especially in matters of education, demonstrated. But he never lost his sense of the cost of change. Perhaps the schoolboy humiliated at Harrow wanted to retain a vision of a world of privilege, courtesy, grace, and ritual to which he might someday belong before it disappeared, that world which the American Senator Elias Gotobed, however unwillingly, found so attractive. The arena of professional politics, that first circle of politics outlined above, is, in one of the great...
childhood Reference library
Malcolm Andrews
The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens
...to this Dickens wrote an article in Household Words , ‘Frauds on the Fairies’, in which he made some of his most eloquent general remarks on childhood and its literature. According to him, fairy stories were ‘nurseries of fancy’, from which children might learn ‘forbearance, courtesy, consideration for the poor and aged, kind treatment of animals, the love of nature, abhorrence of tyranny and brute force’. In other words, left in their pristine condition, fairy literature and romantic tales had a profound morally educative influence on the growing child; and...
Wuthering Heights. A Novel Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the Brontes
...and its distance from civilization. Lockwood's alienation and misplaced courtesy create the effect of black humour, but there is also a sense of real danger and threat. The landscape is equally inhospitable and Lockwood, having been attacked by the dogs, is forced by a snowstorm to stay the night at the Heights. He is shown to a disused bedroom where he finds the name Catherine linked with those of Earnshaw, Heathcliff, and Linton, scratched in the windowsill, and some books inscribed ‘Catherine Earnshaw’. In the margin of one, he reads her account of a...
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Gide, André[-Paul-Guillaume] (1869–1951) Reference library
J. H. Stape
Oxford Reader’s Companion To Conrad
...for promoting his reputation in France , Conrad bestowed on Gide a set of his collected edition . Often concerned with matters relating to the translation of Conrad’s work, the correspondence between the two writers was marked by various ceremonious courtesies that included sending books to one another and the exchange of year-end greetings. If suffered a major crisis in the autumn of 1919 over the translation of The Arrow of Gold . Work had already begun when Conrad expressed a wish that G. Jean-Aubry be assigned to translate it, objecting...
reading Reference library
Oxford Reader’s Companion To Conrad
...the books, ‘dull’, ‘wise’, and others, that he needed to consult for his work? Conrad’s own personal library was sizeable, and at his death was estimated by Richard Curie to have included over 1,000 books, although only some 630 of these have been identified. A documentary record of the contents of Conrad’s library can be found in the auction catalogue accompanying the sale of his books in 1925 , Hodgson & Co., London, A Catalogue of Books, Mss., and Typescripts from the Library of the Late Joseph Conrad , auction of 13 March 1925 . A list of books drawn...
