The author of numerous books on Geoffrey Chaucer, the nineteenth-century scholar, Mary
Eliza Haweis, has been largely erased from general histories of Chaucer studies. In her …

Abstract Matthew Arnold attacked the New Journalism, but his insistence on the power of the
reprinted extract parallels the importance of the excerpt in late Victorian periodicals such as …

This essay examines intersections between George Eliot's work and the New Journalistic
practice of publishing extracts (or “tit-bits”) from novels in mass-market periodicals and book …

Novelist Marie Corelli was extremely popular at the turn of the century, so much so that JM
Stuart-Young complained about the 'Corelli Cult'. Corelli broke all sales records during the …

Abstract George Eliot (1819–80) received markedly less national and international
acknowledgment during the bicentenary of her birth in 2019 than Charles Dickens did for his …

During a career spanning almost forty years, Ouida wrote twenty-four novels, two volumes of
essays, as well as short stories and numerous articles on animal rights, politics, and the arts …