English Literature

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) umph and applause, which soon came to be a necessity to one who craved popularity as a ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) tion, we can easily foresee the kind of novel he must produce. He will be sentimental, ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) was a poor child, the unfortunate victim of society; and, in order to draw attention t ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) THE LIMITATIONS OF DICKENS.Any severe criticism of Dickens as a novelist must seem, at ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) has laid us all, rich and poor alike, under a debt of gratitude. After the year 1843 t ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) tiger licking its chops, the names of all those who are marked for vengeance; and a do ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) harshly, he finds good everywhere, even in the jails and in the slums, simply because ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) comes. Such a school would have been a veritable heaven to Dickens, who at this time w ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) nized as one of the great novelists of his day. All his earlier works are satires, som ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) work for the world (which has always believed that he was capable of even better thing ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) uses the same frank realism, showing us Steele and Addison and other leaders, not with ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) less, good-natured but essentially selfish person, who goes through life intent on his ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS.In treating of Thackeray’s view of life, as reflected in his n ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) are evident on every page. Whatever we may think of Thackeray’s matter, there is one p ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) LIFE.Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans, known to us by her pen name of George Eliot, began to ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) When Mary was twenty-one years old the family again moved, this time to Foleshill Road ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) public learn that it was a woman, and not an English cler- gyman, as they supposed, wh ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) down below there is a river of sadness, but ... I am able to enjoy my newly re-opened ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) try life as it is, and very little of what we call inspiration. We must add, however, ...

CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900) Eliot law is like fate; it overwhelms personal freedom and in- clination. Moral law wa ...