The Bell Jar, like so much of Plath’s writing, is loosely based on her own experiences; the novel was, in fact, originally published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas because Plath feared it might anger or hurt the people in her… Read More ›
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Analysis of Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina
During a Penguin Online Auditorium conversation with college students in 1999, Dorothy Allison described her novel Bastard Out of Carolina as a “story about a working class family, people who are trying very hard to take loving care of each… Read More ›
Analysis of William Sharp’s The Washer of the Ford and The Sin Eater and Other Tales
William Sharp wrote several books adopting the persona of Fiona Macleod. While more collections of loosely linked tales than novels, two worth considering include The Washer of the Ford and The Sin Eater and Other Tales, both published in 1895…. Read More ›
Analysis of Catherine Grace Gore’s Mrs. Armytage
Despite criticism of Catherine Grace Gore’s work by notables such as William Makepeace Thackeray, it proved highly popular in its day and included some novels deemed superior to others. One of her best works, Mrs. Armytage, or, Female Domination, excels… Read More ›
Analysis of Thomas Hardy’s The Hand of Ethelberta
First published as a serial in The Cornhill Magazine between July 1875 and May 1876, The Hand of Ethelberta represents Thomas Hardy’s sole published attempt at humor. Whether because his reading public did not expect him to write humor, or… Read More ›
Analysis of George Moore’s Evelyn Innes
George Moore’s melodramatic romance novel Evelyn Innes is replete with characters based on real people. The author fashioned Evelyn’s father after the French-born musician Arnold Dolmetsch (1858–1940), who studied Renaissance music and the instruments that produced it in London. A… Read More ›
Analysis of George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda
The last of George Eliot’s seven novels, published in eight parts between February and September 1876, Daniel Deronda has a double structure that follows two protagonists, Daniel Deronda and Gwendolyn Harleth, in their intertwined search for self-fulfillment. Eliot breaks new… Read More ›
Analysis of George Meredith’s The Amazing Marriage
The last of George Meredith’s novels, The Amazing Marriage resembles his previous works in its defense of women against men’s errors. In his fiction and real life, Meredith declared man to be in need of woman, who could educate and… Read More ›
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