english novelists

Biography of the English author whose novels were a reflection of the social life and conventions of her time and examines her practice of placing her writing career and immediate family above personal relationships and profit.

Examines the life of Charles Dickens, author of fourteen novels and numerous stories and essays, discussing his family and youth in Victorian England, his marriage, and the development of his career and fame as a writer.

Contains over 2,500 alphabetically arranged entries that provide a wide variety of information about nineteenth-century English novelist Charles Dickens, covering his novels and other writings, characters, biographical details, social themes, literary forms and terms, and other topics.

A biography and literary study of one of the best-known and best-loved English authors.

Relates the life story of English fiction author Nina Bawden including her evacuation to the countryside during World War II, her years at Oxford, and an account of her son Niki who was diagnosed as a schizophrenic.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on various aspects of the life and work of British novelist Virginia Woolf, including synopses of her works, character descriptions, explanations of literary terms, and place names in her life and fiction.

Profiles more than thirty Victorian novelists who wrote significant works after 1885, presenting primary and secondary bibliographies and illustrated biographical essays that chronicle each writer's career in detail.