Found 846 results for "Novelists, english--19th century--biography"
American notes
by Charles Dickens, Diana C. Archibald
I SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the th...
La père Goriot
by Honoré de Balzac
Mme. Vauquer (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nu...
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
We were studying when the headmaster came in, followed by a new boy, not yet wearing a school uniform, and a monitor car...
Illusions perdues
by Honoré de Balzac
AT the time when this story begins, the Stanhope press and inking-rollers were not yet in use in small provincial printi...
Far away and long ago
by W. H. Hudson
IT was never my intention to write an autobiography.
The Life of Charlotte Bronte
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
THE Leeds and Bradford railway runs along a deep valley of the Aire; a slow and sluggish stream, compared to the neighbo...
Pictures from Italy
by Charles Dickens
ON a fine Sunday morning in the Midsummer time and weather of eighteen hundred and forty-four, it was, my good friend, w...
Oliver Goldsmith
by Washington Irving
There are few writers for whom the reader feels such personal kindness as for Olive Goldsmith, for few have so eminently...
A literature of their own
by Elaine Showalter
The advent of female literature promises woman's view of life, woman's experience: in other words, a new element.
Scenes of clerical life
by George Eliot
SHEPPERTON Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago.
Hawthorne
by Henry James
IT will be necessary, for several reasons, to give this short sketch the form rather of a critical essay than of a biogr...
An autobiography
by Anthony Trollope
In writing these pages, which, for the want of a better name, I shall be fain to call the autobiography of so insignific...
The English notebooks
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
April 4th, 1856. - On Tuesday I went to No. 14 Ludgate Hill, to dine with Bennoch at the Milton Club; a club recently fo...
Dickens
by Peter Ackroyd
Charles Dickens was from the beginning as much a child of his time as of his natural parents, John and Elizabeth Dickens...
D.H. Lawrence
by D. H. Lawrence
Rail travelers approaching London from the south see suburbia with its back turned.