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Names and Stories
"Emilia Dilke" (1840-1904) was christened Emily Francis Strong and known by her middle name throughout her childhood as the daughter of an army officer-cum-bank manager in Iffley, England, near Oxford, and her days as an art student in London. During her first marriage, she was Francis Pattison or Mrs. Mark Pattison, while her published works of art history and criticism were neutrally signed E. F. S. Pattison. Later, in the 1870s, she privately changed her first name to Emilia, a switch made public when she remarried in 1885. By this second nuptial union she became Lady Dilke, the famous intellectual, feminist, art critic, author, and, eventually, the active and popular President of the Wom...
Life of Charles Dickens
1887. A biography of Dickens, who many consider the greatest English writer of all time. Partial Contents: The lottery of education; Dickens becomes a solicitor's clerk in 1827; Origin of Pickwick; Dickens works double tides from 1836 to 1839; Oliver Twist; Dickens starts for United States in January, 1842; Dickens again at work and play; Journey through France; Dickens as an amateur actor and stage-manager; Dickens gives his first public (not paid) readings in December, 1853; Hard Times commenced in Household Words for April 1, 1854; The Tale of Two Cities, a story of the great French Revolution; and Dickens' health begins to fail.
Figures of the Imagination
This new study of the intersection of romance novels with vocal music records a society on the cusp of modernisation, with a printing industry emerging to serve people’s growing appetites for entertainment amidst their changing views of religion and the occult. No mere diversion, fiction was integral to musical culture and together both art forms reveal key intellectual currents that circulated in the early nineteenth-century British home and were shared by many consumers. Roger Hansford explores relationships between music produced in the early 1800s for domestic consumption and the fictional genre of romance, offering a new view of romanticism in British print culture. He surveys romance...
