Download or read book The Charles Dickens Thomas Powell Vendetta written by Sidney P. Moss and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Faithful are the wounds of friends," especially when they are embezzlers, forgers, and confidence men like Thomas Powell, who after escaping criminal prosecution in England abused his former friend and defender in 'Living Authors of England' (1849). Dickens retaliated and the affair ended in lawsuits and, the editors argue in their spirited and informed introduction and headnotes to these eighty or so documents, in the inspiration for the Carker brothers, Uriah Heep, and Jarndyce and Jarndyce."NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE
Download or read book The Powell Papers written by Hershel Parker and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1849—months before the term “confidence man” was coined to identify a New York crook—Thomas Powell (1809–1887), a spherical, monocled, English poetaster, dramatist, journalist, embezzler, and forger, landed in Manhattan. Powell in London had capped a career of grand theft and literary peccadilloes by feigning a suicide attempt and having himself committed to a madhouse, after which he fled England. He had been an intimate of William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, and a crowd of lesser literary folk. Thoughtfully bearing what he presented as a volume of Tennyson with a few trifling revisions in the hand of the poet, Powell was embraced by the slavishly Anglophile New York literary establishment, including a young Herman Melville. In two pot-boilers—The Living Authors of England (1849) and The Living Authors of America (1850)—Powell denounced the most revered American author, Washington Irving, for plagiarism; provoked Charles Dickens to vengeful trans-Atlantic outrage and then panic; and capped his insolence by identified Irving and Melville as the two worst “enemies of the American mind.” For almost four more decades he sniped at Dickens, put words in Melville’s mouth, and survived even the most conscientious efforts to expose him. Long fascinated by this incorrigible rogue, Hershel Parker in The Powell Papers uses a few familiar documents and a mass of freshly discovered material (including a devastating portrait of Powell in a serialized novel) to unfold a captivating tale of skullduggery through the words of great artists and then-admired journalists alike.
Download or read book Lives of Victorian Literary Figures Part I Volume 2 written by Ralph Pite and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected here are the biographies which revealed aspects of their subjects that the more favourable "official" accounts tended to hide. The life of the author of each text is described, and their relation to the writers they portray is sketched in.
Download or read book The Dickensian written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kate Field written by Kate Field and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although famous during her lifetime, Kate Field (1838-1896) subsequently slipped into such a state of obscurity that in 1964, when the St. LouisAmerican published a bicentennial article to honor one of the city's most distinguished daughters, the eulogy bore the title "Who Was Kate Field?" Carolyn Moss has collected correspondence ranging over more than fifty years to allow Field to answer that question herself. Field was acquainted with, among numerous others, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Julia Ward Howe, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, the Brownings, and the Trollopes. Outside the world of literature, she hobnobbed with such men and women as Harriet Hosmer, Horace Greeley, Gilbert and Sullivan, Stanley and Livingstone, and Alexander Graham Bell. That Field's contemporaries attached much importance to her correspondence is demonstrated by the fact that her letters were preserved and found their way into more than thirty archives. For those of us heading into the twenty-first century, the letters enrich our knowledge of Field's contemporaries and help illuminate an epoch. Taking a chronological approach, Moss has divided the correspondence into ten parts. Part 1 covers Field's St. Louis childhood, her days as a Boston schoolgirl, and her trip to Europe. Part 2 deals with her stay in Florence and her friendship with the Brownings, the Trollopes, and other literary visitors. In part 3, Field returns to America, where she achieves fame as a journalist, lecturer, and author. In part 4, she writes of her voyage to London and the grief and readjustment occasioned by the death of her mother. She becomes, in part 5, a playwright and actress, promotes Bell's telephone, and helps establish the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. Part 6 finds Field founding the Ladies' Cooperative Dress Association. Part 7 deals with her campaign against the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints. In part 8, Field crosses America to promote Alaska and to lecture against prohibition. Part 9 contains Field's correspondence as owner and editor of Kate Field's Washington, and part 10 shows her final days. While Field's achievements are indeed impressive, Moss points out that the dauntless spirit of this voteless, unmarried, and at times destitute woman is more impressive still.
Download or read book American Episodes Involving Charles Dickens written by Sidney P. Moss and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Charles Dickens has become a household name in America, familiar even to those who have never read his books, it is important to remember that he wrote primarily for an English audience. As a result, Dickens scholarship has been dominated by English scholars, who have largely left his relationship with America and Americans unexplored. Sidney and Carolyn Moss have stepped in to fill the resulting gap with Charles Dickens and His Chicago Relatives, The Charles Dickens -- Thomas Powell Vendetta, and American Episodes Involving Charles Dickens, their new book of essays that focuses on Dickens' two visits to America. The Mosses explore Dickens' effect on the American literary scene, and the effect that American culture had on him, and bring to light entertaining but forgotten stories about his trips.
Download or read book Charles Dickens s Dombey and Son written by Leon Litvack and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annotated bibliography of Dickens's Dombey and Son carefully analyzes almost 900 individual items, documenting the novel's composition and publication, as well as its popular and critical standing. In addition to examining the text, it assess reviews and the reactions of contemporaries.
Download or read book The Companion to Little Dorrit written by Trey Philpotts and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninth volume in the Dickens Companions series, offering comprehensive annotation of the novel Little Dorrit.
Download or read book Dickens Trollope Jefferson written by Sidney P. Moss and published by Whitston Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three encounters between British travelers and Americans are recounted here: Charles Dickens with the American West; Anthony Trollope with Kate Field; and British travelers with Thomas Jefferson. These encounters influenced Dickens's "American Notes" and "Martin Chuzzlewit," various works by Trollope and served to create the Jefferson legend involving Sally Hemings.
Download or read book The Writers Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Nineteenth century Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains articles which focus on a broad spectrum of significant figures in fiction, philosophy, and criticism such as Austen, Carlyle, Dickens,Thackeray, the Brontes, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, and Henry James.
Download or read book The Times Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indexes the Times, Sunday times and magazine, Times literary supplement, Times educational supplement, Times educational supplement Scotland, and the Times higher education supplement.
Download or read book Victorian Studies written by Philip Appleman and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1- include Victorian bibliography, prepared by a committee of the Victorian Literature Group (v. 19- by a committee of the Victorian Division) of the Modern Language Association of America (formerly published in Modern philology).
Download or read book Book Review Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.
Download or read book Cumulative Bibliography of Victorian Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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