Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century

Volume I: Life Writing

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2021
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This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century. Volume I of 4, explores the subjects of life-writing, including biography, autobiography, diaries, and letters. This volume will be of great interest to students of literary history.

Valerie Sanders is Professor of English, University of Hull, UK

General Introduction

Introduction – volume 1

Further Reading

Part 1. Prefaces

1.1 Authors

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1. Lady Sydney Morgan, ‘Prefatory Address’, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence, W. Hepworth Dixon (ed.), 3 vols (London: Wm H. Allen & Co, 1862), Vol I, pp. 1-3.

2. Harriet Martineau, ‘Introduction to Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography’, Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, with Memorials by Maria Weston Chapman, 3 vols (London: Smith, Elder, 1877), Vol. I, pp. 1-8.

3. A.C. Benson, ‘Preface’, The House of Quiet: An Autobiography (1904) (London: John Murray, 1907), pp. iii-viii.

1.2 Editors

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4. Richard Monckton Milnes, ‘Preface’, Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats, edited by Richard Monckton Milnes, 2 vols (London: Edward Moxon, 1848), Vol I, pp. ix-xix.

5. Christopher Wordsworth, ‘Introductory Chapter’, Memoirs of William Wordsworth, 2 vols (London: Edward Moxon, 1851), Vol I, pp. 1-6.

6. Edith Coleridge, ‘Preface to the First Edition’, Memoir and Letters of Sara

Coleridge Edited by Her Daughter 2 vols (2nd ed. London: Henry S. King & Co, 1873). Vol I., pp. v-viii.

----‘Preface to the Fourth Edition’ (1874) Memoir and Letters of Sara

Coleridge Edited by Her Daughter (4th ed. Abridged. London: Henry S. King & Co, 1875). Vol I., pp. ix-xii.

7. ‘Preface’, The Personal Life of George Grote. By Mrs Grote (London: John Murray, 1873), pp. iii-v.

8. ‘Preface’ and ‘Postscript’, Memoirs of the Life of Anna Jameson by her niece Gerardine Macpherson (London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1878), pp. vii-xvi.

9. Margaret Howitt, ‘Preface’, in Mary Howitt, An Autobiography, edited by her daughter, Margaret Howitt (London: Isbister and Company Limited, 1889), pp. v-xiii.

10. Hallam Tennyson, ‘Preface’, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir, 2 vols (London: Macmillan & Co, 1897) Vol I, pp. xi-xvii.

11. E. T. Cook, ‘Introductory’, in The Life of John Ruskin, 2 vols (London: G. Allen & Company, 1912), Vol I. pp. xvii-xxv.

Part 2. Theory

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12. Edwin Paxton Hood, The Uses of Biography: Romantic, Philosophic, and Didactic (London: Partridge and Oakey, 1852), pp. 9-12.

13.Edith Simcox, ‘Autobiographies’, The North British Review 51 (January 1870), pp. 383-385, 412-414.

14. Robert Goodbrand, ‘A Suggestion for a New Kind of Biography’, The Contemporary Review 14 (April 1870), pp. 20-28.

15. George Smith, ‘On Biography and Biographies’, Temple Bar 94 (April 1892), pp. 578-583.

16. Edmund Gosse, ‘The Custom of Biography’, The Anglo-Saxon Review 8 (March 1901), pp. 195-196, 204-208.

Part 3. Overviews

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17. Margaret Oliphant, ‘New Books: Biographies’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 121 (February 1877), pp. 175-177, 183-185, 189-191, 193-195.

18. Anonymous, ‘Studies in Biography’, Fraser’s Magazine 20 (August 1879), pp. 255-257, 264-267, 273-275.

19. W.F. Pollock, ‘Some Recent Biographies’, The Fortnightly Review 34 (October 1883), pp. 536-541, 543-545, 553.

Part 4. Romantic Biography

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20. John Wilson, ‘Moore’s Byron’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Review 27 (February 1830), pp. 389-391, 412-414, 417-420.

21. William Maginn, ‘Moore’s Life of Byron’, Fraser’s Magazine 1 (March 1830), pp. 129-130, 132-133, 137.

22. Thomas Carlyle, ‘Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet’, The London and Westminster Review 6 (January 1838), pp. 295-304, 305, 341-343.

Part 5. Working Class Life Writing

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23. Ebenezer Elliott, ‘Random Thoughts and Reminiscences. By the Corn-Law Rhymer’, Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine 7 (July 1840), pp. 422-424.

24. [Anonymous], ‘Passages in the Life of a Radical’, Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine 8 (May 1841), pp. 277-278, 287-288.

25. ‘Passages in the Life of a Radical,’ The Quarterly Review 74 (October 1844), pp. 393-394.

26. ‘John Duncan, Weaver and Botanist’, The Saturday Review (5 May 1883), pp. 574-575.

27. Alexander Innes Shand, ‘Life of a Scotch Naturalist’, The Edinburgh Review 146 (July 1877), pp.133-135, 144-146.

Part 6. Vanity

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28. J. G. Lockhart, ‘Autobiography,’ The Quarterly Review 35 (January 1827), pp. 164-165

29. Sir Archibald Alison, ‘Autobiography –Chateaubriand’s Memoirs’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 66 (September 1849), pp. 292, 296-298.

30. W.E. Aytoun, ‘Haydon’s Autobiography’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 74 (November 1853), pp. 519-521.

Part 7. Female Memoirs

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31. Herman Merivale, ‘Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. Piozzi’, The Edinburgh Review 113 (April 1861), pp. 501-505, 523.

32. [Anonymous], ‘Mrs. Delany’, The Westminster Review 21 (April 1862), pp. 374-376.

33. Louisa A. Merivale, ‘Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge. Edited by her Daughter’, The Edinburgh Review 39 (January 1874), pp. 44-47.

Part 8. ‘Good’ Women

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34. Henry Chorley, ‘The Life of Charlotte Brontë’, The Athenaeum (4 April 1857),

pp. 427, 428-429.

35. Frances Power Cobbe, ‘Personal Recollections of Mrs. Somerville,’ The Quarterly Review 136 (January 1874), pp. 76-77, 96-103.

36. ‘Memoir of Annie Keary. By her Sister,’ The Athenaeum (18 November 1882), pp. 654-655.

37. Blanche Warre Cornish, ‘The Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. M.O.W. Oliphant’, The Quarterly Review 190 (July 1899), pp. 255-257.

Part 9. Controversies

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38. H. J. Coleridge, ‘Newman’s Apologia Pro Vita Suâ,’ The Dublin Review 3 (July

1864), pp. 156-157, 165-166.

39. Henry Reeve, ‘Autobiography. By John Stuart Mill’, The Edinburgh Review 139 (January 1874), pp. 91-95, pp. 117-119.

40. [Anonymous], ‘Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography,’ The Athenaeum (17 March 1877), pp. 343-346.

41. My Relations with Carlyle by James Anthony Froude (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1903), pp. 12-15, 21-22, 25-27.

42. [Anonymous], ‘Christopher Kirkland’, The Spectator (3 October 1885), pp. 1316-1317.

Part 10. Novelists

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43. Anthony Trollope, ‘Charles Dickens’, The Saint Paul’s Magazine 6 (July 1870), pp. 370-375.

44. John Morley, ‘The Life of George Eliot’, Macmillan’s Magazine 51 (February

1885), pp. 241-246, 255-256.

45. Richard F. Littledale, ‘An Autobiography. By Anthony Trollope’, The Academy (27 October 1883), pp. 273-274.

46. Margaret Oliphant, ‘Men and Women’ [John Addington Symonds, Maria Edgeworth, and Mrs Henry Wood] Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 157 (April 1895), pp. 620-621, 635-638, 640-643, 645-646.

Part 11. Poets

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47. G. H. Lewes, ‘Life of Keats,’ The British Quarterly Review16 (November 1848),

pp. 328-331, 332, 343.

48.Theodore Watts, ‘The Truth about Rossetti,’ The Nineteenth Century 13 (March

1883), pp. 404-406.

49. George Dabbs, ‘Alfred, Lord Tennyson - A Memoir. By his Son’, The Quarterly Review 186 (October 1897), pp. 492-495, 525-528.

Part 12. Collective Biography

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50. ‘Biographies of Good Women,’ The Saturday Review (26 April 1862), pp. 476-477.

51. Harriet Martineau, ‘Preface’ to the Second Edition of Biographical Sketches 1852-1868, Third Edition (London: Macmillan 1870), pp. v-vii.

52. Leslie Stephen, ‘A New "Biographia Britannica",’ The Athenaeum (23 December 1882), p. 850.

Part 13. Diaries and Letters

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53. F. T. P. [Francis Turner Palgrave], ‘On Royal and Other Diaries and Letters: A Letter to a Friend in Bombay’, Macmillan’s Magazine 17 (March 1868), pp. 379-387.

54. Walter Bagehot, ‘Henry Crabb Robinson,’ The Fortnightly Review 6 (August 1869), pp. 179-182.

55. Stephen Gwynn, ‘Discretion and Publicity’ (The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett: 1845-1846), The Edinburgh Review 189 (April 1899), pp. 420-428.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.11.2021
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Historical Resources
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
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ISBN-10	1-032-05924-9 / 1032059249
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