Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century

<p>This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century. Volume I of 4, explores the subjects of life-writing, including biography, autobiography, diaries, and letters. This volume will be of great interest to students of literary history.</p> <p>General Introduction</p><p>Introduction – volume 1</p><p>Further Reading</p><p>Part 1. Prefaces</p><p>1.1 Authors</p><p>Headnote </p><p>1. Lady Sydney Morgan, ‘Prefatory Address’, <i>Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence</i>, W. Hepworth Dixon (ed.), 3 vols (London: Wm H. Allen & Co, 1862), Vol I, pp. 1-3.</p><p>2. Harriet Martineau, ‘Introduction to Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography’, <i>Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, with</i> <i>Memorials by Maria Weston Chapman</i>, 3 vols (London: Smith, Elder, 1877), Vol. I, pp. 1-8.</p><p>3. A.C. Benson, ‘Preface’, <i>The House of Quiet: An Autobiography </i>(1904) (London: John Murray, 1907), pp. iii-viii.</p><p>1.2 Editors</p><p>Headnote </p><p>4. Richard Monckton Milnes, ‘Preface’, <i>Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats, edited by Richard Monckton Milnes</i>, 2 vols (London: Edward Moxon, 1848), Vol I, pp. ix-xix.</p><p>5. Christopher Wordsworth, ‘Introductory Chapter’, <i>Memoirs of William Wordsworth</i>, 2 vols (London: Edward Moxon, 1851), Vol I, pp. 1-6.</p><p>6. Edith Coleridge, ‘Preface to the First Edition’, <i>Memoir and Letters of Sara </i></p><p>Coleridge Edited by Her Daughter 2 vols (2nd ed. London: Henry S. King & Co, 1873). Vol I., pp. v-viii.</p><p>----‘Preface to the Fourth Edition’ (1874) <i>Memoir and Letters of Sara </i></p><p>Coleridge Edited by Her Daughter (4th ed. Abridged. London: Henry S. King & Co, 1875). Vol I., pp. ix-xii.</p><p>7. ‘Preface’, <i>The Personal Life of George Grote. By Mrs Grote </i>(London: John Murray, 1873), pp. iii-v.</p><p>8. ‘Preface’ and ‘Postscript’, <i>Memoirs of the Life of Anna Jameson by her niece Gerardine Macpherson</i> (London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1878), pp. vii-xvi.</p><p>9. Margaret Howitt, ‘Preface’, in <i>Mary Howitt,</i> <i>An Autobiography</i>, edited by her daughter, Margaret Howitt (London: Isbister and Company Limited, 1889), pp. v-xiii.</p><p>10. Hallam Tennyson, ‘Preface’, <i>Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir</i>, 2 vols (London: Macmillan & Co, 1897) Vol I, pp. xi-xvii.</p><p>11. E. T. Cook, ‘Introductory’, in <i>The Life of John Ruskin</i>, 2 vols (London: G. Allen & Company, 1912), Vol I. pp. xvii-xxv.</p><p>Part 2. Theory</p><p>Headnote </p><p>12. Edwin Paxton Hood, <i>The Uses of Biography: Romantic, Philosophic, and Didactic</i> (London: Partridge and Oakey, 1852), pp. 9-12.</p><p>13.Edith Simcox, ‘Autobiographies’, <i>The North British Review </i>51 (January 1870), pp. 383-385, 412-414.</p><p>14. Robert Goodbrand, ‘A Suggestion for a New Kind of Biography’, <i>The Contemporary Review </i>14 (April 1870), pp. 20-28.</p><p>15. George Smith, ‘On Biography and Biographies’, <i>Temple Bar </i>94 (April 1892), pp. 578-583.</p><p>16. Edmund Gosse, ‘The Custom of Biography’, <i>The Anglo-Saxon Review</i> 8 (March 1901), pp. 195-196, 204-208.</p><p>Part 3. <b>Overviews</b></p><p>Headnote </p><p>17. Margaret Oliphant, ‘New Books: Biographies’, <i>Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine</i> 121 (February 1877), pp. 175-177, 183-185, 189-191, 193-195.</p><p>18. Anonymous, ‘Studies in Biography’, <i>Fraser’s Magazine</i> 20 (August 1879), pp. 255-257, 264-267, 273-275.</p><p>19. W.F. Pollock, ‘Some Recent Biographies’, <i>The Fortnightly Review</i> 34 (October 1883), pp. 536-541, 543-545, 553.</p><p>Part 4. Romantic Biography </p><p>Headnote </p><p>20. John Wilson, ‘Moore’s Byron’, <i>Blackwood’s Edinburgh Review </i>27 (February 1830), pp. 389-391, 412-414, 417-420.</p><p>21. William Maginn, ‘Moore’s Life of Byron’, <i>Fraser’s Magazine </i>1 (March 1830), pp. 129-130, 132-133, 137.</p><p>22. Thomas Carlyle, ‘Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet’, <i>The London and Westminster Review</i> 6 (January 1838), pp. 295-304, 305, 341-343.</p><p>Part 5. Working Class Life Writing</p><p>Headnote </p><p>23. Ebenezer Elliott, ‘Random Thoughts and Reminiscences. By the Corn-Law Rhymer’, <i>Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine </i>7 (July 1840), pp. 422-424.</p><p>24. [Anonymous], ‘Passages in the Life of a Radical’, <i>Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine </i>8 (May 1841), pp. 277-278, 287-288.</p><p>25. ‘Passages in the Life of a Radical,’ <i>The Quarterly Review </i>74 (October 1844), pp. 393-394.</p><p>26. ‘John Duncan, Weaver and Botanist’, <i>The Saturday Review</i> (5 May 1883), pp. 574-575.</p><p>27. Alexander Innes Shand, ‘Life of a Scotch Naturalist’, <i>The Edinburgh Review</i> 146 (July 1877), pp.133-135, 144-146.</p><p>Part 6. Vanity</p><p>Headnote </p><p>28. J. G. Lockhart, ‘Autobiography,’ <i>The Quarterly Review</i> 35 (January 1827), pp. 164-165</p><p>29. Sir Archibald Alison, ‘Autobiography –Chateaubriand’s Memoirs’, <i>Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine</i> 66 (September 1849), pp. 292, 296-298.</p><p>30. W.E. Aytoun, ‘Haydon’s Autobiography’, <i>Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine</i> 74 (November 1853), pp. 519-521.</p><p>Part 7. Female Memoirs</p><p>Headnote </p><p>31. Herman Merivale, ‘Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. Piozzi’, <i>The Edinburgh Review</i> 113 (April 1861), pp. 501-505, 523.</p><p>32. [Anonymous], ‘Mrs. Delany’, <i>The Westminster Review </i>21 (April 1862), pp. 374-376.</p><p>33. Louisa A. Merivale, ‘Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge. Edited by her Daughter’, <i>The Edinburgh Review</i> 39 (January 1874), pp. 44-47.</p><p>Part 8. ‘Good’ Women</p><p>Headnote </p><p>34. Henry Chorley, ‘The Life of Charlotte Brontë’, <i>The Athenaeum </i>(4 April 1857), </p><p>pp. 427, 428-429.</p><p>35. Frances Power Cobbe, ‘Personal Recollections of Mrs. Somerville,’ <i>The Quarterly Review</i> 136 (January 1874), pp. 76-77, 96-103.</p><p>36. ‘<i>Memoir of Annie Keary</i>. By her Sister,’ <i>The Athenaeum</i> (18 November 1882), pp. 654-655.</p><p>37. Blanche Warre Cornish, <i>‘The Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. M.O.W.</i> <i>Oliphant’</i>, <i>The Quarterly Review </i>190 (July 1899), pp. 255-257.</p><p>Part 9. Controversies</p><p>Headnote </p><p>38. H. J. Coleridge, ‘Newman’s <i>Apologia Pro Vita Suâ</i>,’ <i>The Dublin Review</i> 3 (July </p><p>1864), pp. 156-157, 165-166.</p><p>39. Henry Reeve, ‘<i>Autobiography</i>. By John Stuart Mill’, <i>The Edinburgh Review </i>139 (January 1874), pp. 91-95, pp. 117-119.</p><p>40. [Anonymous], ‘<i>Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography</i>,’ <i>The Athenaeum </i>(17 March 1877), pp. 343-346.</p><p>41. <i>My Relations with Carlyle</i> by James Anthony Froude (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1903), pp. 12-15, 21-22, 25-27.</p><p>42. [Anonymous], ‘<i>Christopher Kirkland</i>’, <i>The Spectator </i>(3 October 1885), pp. 1316-1317.</p><p>Part 10. Novelists</p><p>Headnote </p><p>43. Anthony Trollope, ‘Charles Dickens’, <i>The Saint Paul’s Magazine </i>6 (July 1870), pp. 370-375.</p><p>44. John Morley, ‘The Life of George Eliot’, <i>Macmillan’s Magazine </i>51 (February </p><p>1885), pp. 241-246, 255-256.</p><p>45. Richard F. Littledale, ‘<i>An Autobiography</i>. By Anthony Trollope’, <i>The Academy </i>(27 October 1883), pp. 273-274.</p><p>46. Margaret Oliphant, ‘Men and Women’ [John Addington Symonds, Maria Edgeworth, and Mrs Henry Wood] <i>Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine </i>157 (April 1895), pp. 620-621, 635-638, 640-643, 645-646.</p><p>Part 11. Poets</p><p>Headnote </p><p>47. G. H. Lewes, ‘Life of Keats,’ <i>The British Quarterly Review</i>16 (November 1848), </p><p>pp. 328-331, 332, 343.</p><p>48.Theodore Watts, ‘The Truth about Rossetti,’ <i>The Nineteenth Century</i> 13 (March </p><p>1883), pp. 404-406.</p><p>49. George Dabbs, ‘Alfred, Lord Tennyson - A Memoir. By his Son’, <i>The Quarterly Review</i> 186 (October 1897), pp. 492-495, 525-528.</p><p>Part 12. Collective Biography</p><p>Headnote </p><p>50. ‘Biographies of Good Women,’ <i>The Saturday Review </i>(26 April 1862), pp. 476-477.</p><p>51. Harriet Martineau, ‘Preface’ to the Second Edition of <i>Biographical Sketches 1852-1868</i>, Third Edition (London: Macmillan 1870), pp. v-vii.</p><p>52. Leslie Stephen, ‘A New "Biographia Britannica",’ <i>The Athenaeum </i>(23 December 1882), p. 850.</p><p>Part 13. Diaries and Letters</p><p>Headnote </p><p>53. F. T. P. [Francis Turner Palgrave], ‘On Royal and Other Diaries and Letters: A Letter to a Friend in Bombay’, <i>Macmillan’s Magazine </i>17 (March 1868), pp. 379-387. </p><p>54. Walter Bagehot, ‘Henry Crabb Robinson,’ <i>The Fortnightly Review </i>6 (August 1869), pp. 179-182.</p><p>55. Stephen Gwynn, ‘Discretion and Publicity’ (<i>The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett: 1845-1846</i>), <i>The Edinburgh Review </i>189 (April 1899), pp. 420-428. </p>