Victorian bestseller : the life of Dinah Craik / Karen Bourrier.
Victorian bestseller : the life of Dinah Craik / Karen Bourrier.
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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019.
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G 2019/3961
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Language
English
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Physical content
xvii, 328 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Parents and childhood, 1826 to 1839 -- In her teens, 1840 to 1845 -- Papers for the people, 1845 to 1849 -- Early novels, 1850 to 1854 -- The author of John Halifax, gentleman, 1855 to 1858 -- The family magazine, 1859 to 1863 -- Two Scottish men, 1861 to 1868 -- Annus mirabilis, 1869 -- Motherhood,...
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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019.
Place of Publication
Michigan
Date Published
2019.
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Summary
"When novelist Dinah Craik (1826-87) died, expressions of grief came from Lord Alfred Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, T.H. Huxley, and James Russell Lowell, among others, and even Queen Victoria picked up her pen to offer her consolation to the widower. Despite Craik's enormous popularity throughout a literary career that spanned forty y...
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Victorian bestseller : the life of Dinah Craik / Karen Bourrier.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2019
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G 2019/3961
Record Identifier
74VKVlPbxBdl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVlPbxBdl
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ISBN
9780472131389 hardcover alkaline paper
0472131389 hardcover alkaline paper
DDC
823.8 B
MMS ID
991024259416302626
