The lives of the novelists : a history of fiction in 294 lives /: a history of fiction in 294 lives. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John Sutherland.
• Authors: Sutherland, John, 1938-
• Contents: Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; The Seventeenth Century; 1. John Bunyan; 2. Aphra Behn; 3. Daniel Defoe; 4. Samuel Richardson; The Eighteenth Century; 5. Henry Fielding; 6. Samuel Johnson; 7. John Cleland; 8. Laurence Sterne; 9. Oliver Goldsmith; 10. Robert Bage; 11. Olaudah Equiano; 12. Fanny Burney; 13. Susanna Haswell; 14. Mrs Radcliffe; 15. James Hogg; 16. Charles Brockden Brown; 17. Walter Scott; 18. Jane Austen; 19. M.G. Lewis; 20. Mrs Frances Trollope; 21. Thomas De Quincey; 22. James Fenimore Cooper; 23. John Polidori. 24. Mary Shelley25. Mrs Catherine Gore; The Nineteenth Century; 26. Harriet Martineau; 27. The Bulwer-Lyttons: Edward and Rosina; 28. Benjamin Disraeli; 29. Nathaniel Hawthorne; 30. Harrison Ainsworth; 31. Charles (James) Lever; 32. J.H. Ingraham; 33. Postscript: Prentiss Ingraham; 34. Edgar Allan Poe; 35. Mrs Gaskell; 36. Fanny Fern; 37. William Makepeace Thackeray; 38. Charles Dickens; 39. Mrs Henry Wood; 40. Anthony Trollope; 41. Grace Aguilar; 42. The Brontës: Patrick, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, Anne; 43. Maria Monk; 44. George Eliot; 45. Postscript: G.H. Lewes; 46. Herman Melville. 47. Mrs E.D.E.N. Southworth48. Eliza Lynn Linton; 49. Postscript: Beatrice Harraden; 50. Sylvanus Cobb Jr; 51. Charlotte Yonge; 52. Wilkie Collins; 53. R.M. Ballantyne; 54. Mary J. Holmes; 55. Dinah Craik; 56. George Meredith; 57. Mrs Oliphant; 58. Horatio Alger Jr; 59. George du Maurier; 60. Postscript: Daphne du Maurier; 61. Frank R. Stockton; 62. 'Walter'; 63. Mrs Mary Braddon; 64. Samuel Butler; 65. Mark Twain; 66. B.L. Farjeon; 67. Ouida; 68. Thomas Hardy; 69. Ambrose Bierce; 70. Lewis Wingfield; 71. Henry James; 72. Bram Stoker; 73. Grant Allen; 74. Richard Jefferies. 75. Robert Louis Stevenson76. Mrs Humphry Ward; 77. Hall Caine; 78. Sarah Grand; 79. Marie Corelli; 80. Lady Florence Dixie; 81. Olive Schreiner; 82. William Sharp; 83. L. Frank Baum; 84. H. Rider Haggard; 85. Joseph Conrad; 86. Ella Hepworth Dixon; 87. Mary Cholmondeley; 88. Arthur Conan Doyle; 89. Postscript: John (Edmund) Gardner; 90. Frank Danby; 91. George Egerton; 92. Kenneth Grahame; 93. J.M. Barrie; 94. Charlotte Perkins Gilman; 95. Postscript: S. Weir Mitchell; 96. Amanda Ros; 97. Owen Wister; 98. Amy Levy; 99. Florence L. Barclay; 100. O. Henry; 101. Violet Hunt; 102. Edith Wharton. 103. W.J. Locke104. Thomas Dixon; 105. Israel Zangwill; 106. M.P. Shiel; 107. H.G. Wells; 108. Arnold Bennett; 109. John Oliver Hobbes; 110. Norman Douglas; 111. Booth Tarkington; 112. Erskine Childers; 113. Saki; 114. B.M. Bower; 115. Stephen Crane; 116. Theodore Dreiser; 117. Zane Grey; 118. W. Somerset Maugham; 119. John Buchan; 120. Edgar Rice Burroughs; 121. Sabatini; 122. Edgar Wallace; 123. Jack London; 124. Rex Beach; 125. Warwick Deeping; 126. Jeffery Farnol; 127. E.M. Forster; 128. Mazo de la Roche; 129. Daisy Ashford; 130. Mary Webb; 131. James Joyce; 132. Virginia Woolf.
• Publisher Details: London, England : Profile Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2011
• Copyright Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (832 pages)
• Subjects: 823.009; English fiction -- History and criticism; Novelists, English -- Biography; English literature -- Foreign authors; English fiction; English literature -- Foreign authors; Novelists, English; Electronic books; Biographies; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847653437; 9781846681578; 9781280061646; 1280061642
• Related ISBNs: 184765343X; 184668157X; 9781846681608
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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