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Title: The literary digest
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York : Funk & Wagnalls (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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y leading parts of the firstorder six nights a week all the year round unless he underplaysthem, or routines them mechanically in the old stock manner, orfaces a terrible risk of disablement by paralysis, or, finally, re-sorts to alcohol or morphine, with the usual penalties. What wewant in order to get the best work is a repertory theater withalternative casts. LEADING ENGLISH WOMEN NOVELISTS. I HE reader of English fiction hardly suspects that the array■■ of women novelists is a very formidable one. A few arebeing written about, but very little is known about the careerand personal characteristics of the majority, in which are foundnames not unknown to fame and distinction. In The Woman atHome, a London magazine, Mrs. Sarah A. Tooley gives sketchesof twenty-three English women novelists, and she has by nomeans exhausted the list. Without quoting from her remarksabout such writers as Mrs. Humphry Ward, Ouida, Sarah Grand,Mrs. Hodgson-Burnett, and others, sketches of whom have ap-
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EONA l.YAl.l.. peared in The Litkkary Digest from time to time, we extract por-tions from the remaining pages of the elaborate essay. Miss Braddon, who appeals to the lovers of exciting and sensa-tional fiction of the higher order, and who writes to amuse andinterest, is the subject of the first sketch. She is the daughter ofa London solicitor and was born in the year which saw the Queencome to the throne. In her early teens she began to model herstories upon tho.se of Charlotte Bronte, but they appeared only inobscure newspapers. Mrs. Tooley proceeds as follows : A printer at Beverley commissioned the young novelist towrite, for ten pounds, a story which was to combine the humorof Dickens with the plot construction of G. W. M. Reynolds.Had she been told to combine the qualities of all the masters of fiction put together, .she would probably have set to work to ac-complish the task, being brimful of literary enthusiasm, and per-fectly reckless so long as she succeeded in making a sens

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