Linda H. Peterson

Standard Name: Peterson, Linda H.


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Intertextuality and Influence Harriet Martineau
Critic Linda H. Peterson places the Autobiography as a response to the domestic memoir generally and to the domestication of the religious and intellectual in the memoirs of various women including Charlotte Tonna . Instead...
Literary responses Mary Cholmondeley
Most literary reviews were positive, some comparing MC to Charlotte Brontë or George Eliot ; The Spectator called the novel brilliant and exhilarating.
Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, No. 2, pp. 213 - 28.
An Edinburgh Review article written in 1900 praised Red Pottage in...
Publishing Harriet Martineau
Chapman used her own memorials (based, she claimed, on full access to HM 's private and public papers, personal letters, and her own and others' first-hand knowledge) to flesh out the account in the manuscript...
Reception L. E. L.
Although LEL died on the cusp of the Victorian period, she was widely read in its early years, and was invoked explicitly by many other writers who followed her, including women poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Textual Features Mary Cholmondeley
Thematically, Red Pottage examines female friendship, the function of literature, the role of women, and hypocrisy both religious and social. Critic Linda H. Peterson , writing about women's choices and the novel, claims that Red...


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