Books written by Carolyn W de la L Oulton

New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part I

233) comes from the Greek, kratos (hard wood; it does grow as a tree), oxcus (sharp) and akantha (a thorn). In early days it was considered sacred because of its association with Christ's crown of thorns. The Germans called it Hagedorn, ...
New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part I

CHAPTER I. When Mrs Macgregor had gone up-stairs to rest before dinner on their arrival at Wotton Hall,44 Hamlin took Miss Brown round the huge, deserted-looking house, which his grandfather had built on returning from Jamaica.
New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part II

Slung, M., 'Introduction', in C. L. Pirkis, The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective (Mineola, NY: Dover, 1986), pp. vii–xiv. Sutherland, J., The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction, 2nd edn (Harlow: Pearson Longman, ...
New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part I

'Right noble river' is quoted in S. Lewis's The Book of English Rivers (London: Longmans, 1855), p. 319, and his book has much description throughout about the Swale. Indeed the hills were 'scarred' with deposits of limestone.
New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part I

24 'But,' persisted Harry, 'I want to know what is meant in common parlance by a “gentleman.”' 'Ask me to express one of the 'ultimate elements' (which you are always prosily talking about) in terms of something else,' returned her ...
New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part I

The ballad was reproduced in Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) and much anthologized thereafter. “lumbering wain”: the phrase is probably from George Crabbe's poem 'The Borough' (1810), letter xii, l.88.
New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part III

The events of 1895 have encouraged critics such as Richard Ellmann and Holbrook Jackson to cast the 1890s as a decade of two halves – the flowering of decadence up until the Wilde trials followed by its rapid decline – while Jonathan ...
New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part II

... the frontispiece to Holbrook Jackson's book, The Eighteen Nineties. The expression of the face framed between the amazingly long-fingered hands must, I think, have been also assumed, for it is sullen, brooding, and contemptuous.
New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part I

And Chough sighed, and fixed his eyes on his lacquered boottips, as much as to intimate that he, who lived on mutton-chops and spent his life nursing an epileptic wife, was of that Caliph Vathek9 kind. Madame Elaguine laughed ...
New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part III

Carolyn W de la L Oulton, Andrew King, Paul March-Russell. Khristof of Karstein? She was safe from all risk ... 'I am very glad,' she said simply, with that perfect intuition which had so often served her purpose so well: 'and now go.
New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part III

The novels in this collection include one by a fierce opponent to the New Woman movement, as well as two from women whose work can be seen as archetypal New Woman fiction.
New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part III

Carolyn W de la L Oulton, Andrew King, Paul March-Russell. Lady Newhaven's self-possession had returned sufficiently for her to take up her fur cloak. 'Thank you,' she said, letting Captain Pratt help her on with it. 'I shall be glad to ...
New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part I

"Contains three early examples of the genre of New Woman writing, each portraying women in ways wholly different to those which had gone before.
New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part II

Carolyn W de la L Oulton, Adrienne E Gavin, SueAnn Schatz, Vybarr Cregan-Reid. CONTENTS. OF. THE. EDITION. volume 1 General Introduction Jessie Fothergill, Kith and Kin (1881) Edited by Brenda Ayres volume 2 Vernon Lee, ...
Let the Flowers Go: A Life of Mary Cholmondeley

Carolyn W de la L Oulton. First published 2009 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX144RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint ...
Let the Flowers Go: A Life of Mary Cholmondeley

Giving a comprehensive critique of Cholmondeley's writings, Oulton analyzes the inspiration and influences behind some of her greatest work and provides an appealing biography on a writer whose work is of increasing interest to modern ...
New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part III

The novels in this collection include one by a fierce opponent to the New Woman movement, as well as two from women whose work can be seen as archetypal New Woman fiction.
New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part II

Covers four texts from the 1890s that helped to crystallize the idea of the 'New Woman' during a period where the role of women was increasingly debated and challenged, not least due to the growth of the suffrage movement.
New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part I

"Contains three early examples of the genre of New Woman writing, each portraying women in ways wholly different to those which had gone before.
New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part III

"The novels in this collection include one by a fierce opponent to the New Woman movement, as well as two from women whose work can be seen as archetypal New Woman fiction."--Provided by publisher.