G. A. Henty’s works today remain useful as examples of 19th-century children’s literature for boys of a chauvinistic bent. Overbearingly patriotic, the novels prove bombastic to modern readers. However, in Henty’s day, novels such as Under Drake’s Flag captured the… Read More ›
According to Sheridan Le Fanu, he had published a shorter form of his novel Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh under the title “A Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess”; reports as to where the story appeared… Read More ›
Samuel Lover was best known as a miniaturist painter and a dramatist, often performing his own written sketches and stories. Handy Andy remains his best-known novel, probably his only work to have remained palatable to later audiences. Lover writes ironically… Read More ›
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