George Meredith’s fourth novel, Rhoda Fleming, dealt with a familiar theme: the pressure society places on both genders—but especially women—to conform to unrealistic expectations. That his culture governed love relationships with laws, such as those relating to marriage and divorce,… Read More ›
Ouida (1839 – 1908) practices her typical effusive style in the 1880 novel Moths, so named for one character’s pronouncement that the “fashionable,” or high society, world damages a woman. Moths, half of which immolate themselves “in feverish frailty,” and… Read More ›
When Robert Buchanan wrote Foxglove Manor, he had experienced years of poverty, worsened by the illness of his wife. Her death in 1881 followed the failure of his journal, Light, leaving him penniless and desperate for funds. In order to… Read More ›
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