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Victorian bestseller : the life of Dinah Craik /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bourrier, Karen (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock, > 1826-1887.
Women authors, English > 19th century > Biography.
Women authors, English.
1800-1899
Biography.
Table of 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, 1870 to 1879
  • Travel and translation, 1867 to 1884
  • Later years, 1884 to 1887
  • Epilogue : life and afterlife.