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Full of the open air and “wind on the heath”
Lavengro, The Bible in Spain and The Romany Rye. -
She was thought to be superior as a poet to her husband.
Aurora Leigh, sonnets from the Portuguese. -
He produced a series of quatrains that are still widely read, though they had to be rescued from obscurity in their own day by Rossetti.
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He wrote about the Muslim
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He sums up many of the preoccupations of the period in work which is thoroughly Romantic.
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Cranford
Mary Barton
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Wrote of the upper classes and was anti-romantic.
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Anti-romantic, language is often colloquial and even slangy; there is also humor.
The Pied Piper, Sordello, Pauline, Men and Women, Dramatis Personae, Abt Vloge, The Statue and the Bust, Ring and the Book. -
The greatest of Victorian story-tellers.
Doctrine: love.
Style: grotesque, inelegant.
Faults: inability to construct a convincing plot, his clumsy and sometimes ungrammatical prose, his sentimentality, his lack of real characters in the Shakespearean sense.
The secret of his popularity lies in an immense vitality that swirls around his creations and creates a special Dickensian world. -
His work is a little too lacking in warm for some people, but he was able to write by forcing on himself a mechanical routine. This explains a lack of inspiration in his novels.
The Warden, Barchester Towers, Dr. Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, The Last Chronicle of Barset. -
Jane Eyre
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She has more remarkable talent than her sister.
Her poems are vital and original
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He had a modern technique and a modern attitude to life.
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Preaches a kind of Christian Communism in Alton Locke.
Turns to the Elizabethan past in Westward Ho!
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She shows sympathy in her novels for the faith of others and she is always concerned with moral problems.
Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Romola, Middle-march, Daniel Deronda, and others. -
She’s the best remembered because of her sisters: her talent is smaller than theirs.
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Essays in Criticism and Culture and Anarchy
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First great British writer of mystery-stories, and to a gift of maintaining suspense, terror, and credible plot.
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He liked verbal smartness, remote references to subjects and books not generally known.
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A progressive move was made in the direction of ‘democratizing’ parliamentary representation.
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British colonies were officially rid of slavery.
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The man who had most to say to our age.
Erewbone, The Way of All Flesh. -
With sensuality and noise, he had almost Byronic impact on the public.
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He became almost immediately a powerful influence. We see him as a “modern”, but he is Victorian.