CONCLUSION
Mrs. Gaskell died on the twelfth of November, 1865. Of the novelists whohave been considered in this book only three survived her, Mrs. Bray,Mrs. S. C. Hall, and Harriet Martineau, but they added little to prosefiction after that date. During the third quarter of the nineteenthcentury, however, the number of books written by women continued toincrease each year. Julia Kavanagh was the author of several novels, thefirst of which _The Three Paths_, was published in 1848; all her storieswere written with high moral aim and delicacy of feeling. _Uncle Tom'sCabin_, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1850, is probably themost powerful novel ever written to plead the cause of oppressedhumanity. Dinah Maria Muloch Craik kept up the interest in the domesticnovel; her most popular book, _John Halifax, Gentleman_, has lost noneof its charm for young women, even if it does not meet the requirementsof a classic. Mrs. Henry Wood is still remembered as the author of themelodramatic _East Lynne_, but her best stories are the _Johnny LudlowPapers_, which deal with character alone; her popularity is attested bythe fact that more than a million copies of her books have been issued.Charlotte Yonge's forgotten novels were classed among the _ChurchStories_, because they contain so much piety and devotion. Of adifferent type was Miss de la Ramee, who wrote under the name of Ouida;she had fine gifts of word-painting, but a fondness for the questionablein conduct. Miss Braddon, the author of _Lady Audley's Secret_, excelledin complicated plots. Mrs. Oliphant has been a most versatile writer,and followed almost every style of prose fiction; her domestic storiesare generally considered her best. Anne Thackeray, better known as Mrs.Ritchie, the daughter of the great novelist, has written several novels,all of which have a delightfully feminine touch. Miss Rhoda Broughtonhas entertained the reading public by love stories which hold theattention until the marriage takes place. But all these women fade intoinsignificance beside George Eliot, whose first story, _The Sad Fortunesof the Rev. Amos Barton_, appeared in _Blackwood's Magazine_ in 1857,and whose last novel, _Daniel Deronda_, was published nearly twentyyears later, in 1876.
It seems strange that any reader of her books should have thought themthe product of a man's brain, as was at first believed. For,notwithstanding her power in developing a plot, her breadth of view, andher mental grasp, her genius is essentially feminine. She excelled inanalysis of character, in attention to details, in ethical teaching, andin artistic truthfulness, the qualities in which women have beenpre-eminent. Only a woman's pen could have drawn such characters asDinah Morris, Maggie Tulliver, and Dorothea Casaubon, or could havefollowed the minute and subtle influences under which the plot of_Middlemarch_ is shaped. George Eliot has left a larger portrait galleryof women than any other novelist. Not only has she drawn differentgrades of society, but, what is perhaps a more difficult task, she hasdrawn the different grades of spiritual greatness and moral littleness.She brought the psychological novel to a degree of perfection which hasnever been surpassed.
Mrs. Oliphant has thus written of George Eliot's place in literature:
"Another question which has been constantly put to this age, and whichis pushed with greater zeal every day, as to the position of women inliterature and the height which it is in their power to attain, wassolved by this remarkable woman, in a way most flattering to all whowere and are fighting the question of equality between the two halves ofmankind; for here was visibly a woman who was to be kept out by nobarriers, who sat down quietly from the beginning of her career in thehighest place, and, if she did not absolutely excel all hercontemporaries in the revelation of the human mind and the creation ofnew human beings, at least was second to none in those distinguishingcharacteristics of genius."
We are too near the nineteenth century to decide as to the relativepositions of its great novelists. At one time George Eliot was placed atthe head of all writers of fiction, with Dickens and Thackeray as rivalsfor the second place. But she was dethroned by Thackeray, and there aresigns that the final kingship will be given to Charles Dickens, unlessScott receives it instead.
Fashions in novels change at least every fifty years. Exciting plots andsituations, strong emotional scenes, sharp contrasts, are not demandedby present readers, who also turn away with disgust from the saintlyheroine and the irreclaimable villain. Of the many volumes of fictionwritten in the eighteenth century only two are in general circulationto-day, _Robinson Crusoe_ and _The Vicar of Wakefield_. But all thoseonce popular novels, even if their very names are now forgotten, havedone their work in shaping the thought and morals of their own andsucceeding generations.
INDEX
_Abbott, The_, 137 _Absentee, The_, 61, 112-113, 122 _Ada Reis_, 203 _Adam Bede_, 84, 289, 295 Addison, Joseph, 21, 28 _Adeline Mowbray, or the Mother and Daughter_, 150-153 _Adventures of an Atom_, 23 _Afflicted Parent, The, or the Undutiful Child Punished_, 125 _Age of Wordsworth, The_, 193 _Agnes Grey_, 258-259, 261, 265 Ainsworth, William Harrison, 216, 239 Alderson, Miss, _see_ Opie, Amelia _Amorous Friars, or the Intrigues of a Convent_, 42 _Amos Barton_, 294 _Amours of Prince Tarquin and Miranda_, 18 _Antiquary, The_, 102, 104 _Arabian Nights_, 15, 233 Arblay, Madame D', _see_ Burney, Frances _Arblay, Madame D', Essay on_, 57-58, 61, 168-169 Arden, Enoch, 187 Arnold, Matthew, 257 _Artless Tales_, 139 _Athenaeum, The_, 194, 256 _Aurora Leigh_, 292 Austen, Jane, 39, 45, 60, 101, 157-178, 179, 180, 191, 195, 196, 216, 263, 270, 276, 291
Baillie, Joanna, 154, 155 Balzac, Honore de, 170 _Banker's Wife, The_, 225 Barbauld, Mrs. Anna Letitia, 121 Barrett, Miss, _see_ Browning, Elizabeth _Barring Out, The_, 125 _Bas Bleu_, 62, 63 _Beauty Put to its Shifts, or the Young Virgin's Rambles_, 42 Behn, Aphra, 1, 13-19 _Belford Regis_, 193-196 _Belinda_, 121, 177 _Beside the Bonny Brier Bush_, 137 _Betsy Thoughtless, Miss, The History of_, 36-39, 46, 48 _Bithynia, An Adventure in_, 233 _Blackwood's Magazine_, 107, 294 Blake, William, 2 _Blazing World, Description of a New World Called the_, 6-7 Blessington, Lady, 232, 233 Blind Harry the Minstrel, 143, 144 Bonheur, Rosa, 1 _Book of Snobs, The_, 291 Boswell, James, 138 Bousset, 3 Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, 294 Bray, Ann Eliza, 216, 225-230, 232, 293 _Bride of Lammermoor, The_, 256 Bronte, Anne, 249, 250, 257-261 Bronte, Charlotte, 85, 174, 210, 249, 250, 256, 258, 261-273 Bronte, Emily, 248, 249-257, 258, 267, 270, 271, 273 Brontes, The, 247-273, 276 _Brooke and Brooke Farm_, 242 Broughton, Rhoda, 294 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 81, 103, 190, 242 Brunton, Alexander, 156 Brunton, Mary, 41, 149, 153-156, 262 _Bubbled Knights, or Successful Contrivances_, 42 Bulwer, Edward, Lord Lytton, 200, 216, 223 Burke, Edmund, 46, 54, 62 Burney, Charles, 46 Burney, Frances, 39, 45-61, 168, 176, 177, 181, 195 Byron, Lord (George Gordon), 109, 200-206, 210-213, 257
_Caleb Williams_, 73 _Camilla, or a Picture of Youth_, 59-60, 176, 177 _Canterbury Tales, The_, 106-110 _Caroline Evelyn, The History of_, 47 Carter, Elizabeth, 62 _Castle of Otranto, The_, 88 _Castle Rackrent_, 111-112, 117 _Castles of Athlyn and Dunbayne_, 89 Cavendish, Margaret, _see_ Newcastle, Duchess of Cavendish, William, _see_ Newcastle, Duke of _Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb_, 217-219 _Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress_, 54-59, 60, 61, 78, 176, 177 _Celestina_, 80 _Chap-Books_, 67 Chapone, Hester, 62 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 106 _Cheap Repository, The_, 67-71 _Childe Harold_, 200, 219 Clarendon, Earl of (Edward Hyde), 10 _Clarissa Harlowe_, 8, 26, 30, 171 _Clelia_, 32 _Clubman, The_, 219 _Coelebs in Search of a Wife_, 71-72 Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, 109 Collier, Jeremy, 61 Colman, George, 42, 43, 46 _Confessions of a Pretty Woman_, 233 Congreve, William, 217 Cooper, James Fenimore, 16 Corneille, 3 _Cottagers of Glenburnie, The_, 16 Cottin, Sophie, Madame de, 262 _Court Gazette_, 20 _Courtenay of Walreddon; a Romance of the West_, 227 _Cousin Phillis_, 286-287, 288, 292 Crabbe, George, 263 Craik, Dinah Maria Muloch, 293 Craik's _English Prose_, 245 _Cranford_, 277, 281, 287, 288, 291-292 Crewe, Catherine, 232 _Cry of the Children, The_, 242 Curtis, George William, 174
_Daniel Deronda_, 294 Dante, Alighieri, 286 David Copperfield, 164 _David Simple_, 26-31 _Deerbrook_, 243 Defoe, Daniel, 146 _De Foix, or Sket
ches of the Manners and Customs of the Fourteenth Century_, 226 _Desmond_, 74-77, 80 _Destiny_, 181, 182, 183, 185, 186-187 Diana of the Crossways, 103 Dickens, Charles, 56, 69, 76, 77, 87, 102, 116, 164, 231, 236, 240, 247, 264, 268, 269, 277, 281, 282, 286, 290, 291, 296 _Discipline_, 155 Disraeli, Benjamin, 87, 200, 216, 247, 269, 279 Dombey and Son, 225 _Domestic Manners of the Americans_, 235-236 Dryden, John, 13 _Duchess of Malfi, The_, 256 Du Maurier, 285
_East Lynne_, 293 Edgeworth, Maria, 102, 111-128, 130, 131, 133, 155, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 196, 197, 216, 243, 276 Edgeworth, Richard Lovell, 115, 118, 119, 121, 124 _Eighteenth Century, History of the_, 44 Elia, _see_ Lamb, Charles Eliot, George, 84, 109, 119, 164, 174, 276, 277, 289-291, 294-296 Emma, 161-162, 166-167, 168, 170 _Emmeline_, 155 _Ennui_, 113, 122 _Enoch Arden_, 286 _Epipsychidion_, 214 _Essay on Irish Bulls_, see _Irish Bulls, Essay on_ _Essay on Madame D'Arblay_, see _Arblay, Madame D', Essay on_ _Ethelinda_, 79 Evans, Marian, _see_ Eliot, George _Evelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance into the World_, 39, 46, 47-54, 55, 59, 61, 78, 164, 176, 177 Evelyn, John, 5 _Evening Chronicle_, 231 _Examiner_, 22
_Fair Jilt, The_, 18 _Falkland_, 200, 216 _Falkner_, 214 _Fantom, Mr.: or the History of the New-Fashioned Philosopher, and his Man William_, 68, 72 Felix Holt, 289 _Female Education, Strictures on the Modern System of_, 71 _Female Quixote, The_, 32-35 Ferrier, Susan Edmonstone, 179-188, 189, 216 Fielding, Henry, 16, 24, 25, 26, 27, 34, 48, 101, 116, 277 Fielding, Sarah, 23, 24, 26-31 _Fits of Fitz-Ford_, 227 _Flies in Amber_, 233 _Florence Macarthy_, 129 _Fortnightly Review_, 185 Fox, Charles James, 40 _Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus_, 206-207, 215 _Fraser's Magazine_, 231 Froissart's _Chronicles_, 226
Gait, John, 216 Garnett, Sir Richard, 214 Garrick, David, 41, 46, 62 Garrison, William Lloyd, 245 Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 247, 267, 269, 270, 274-293 Genlis, Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse de, 118, 262 _Gentleman's Magazine, The_, 101 Gibbon, Edward, 54 _Glenarvon_, 200-203 Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, _see_ Wollstonecraft, Mary Godwin, William, 73, 150, 179, 205, 210, 221 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 174 Goldsmith, Oliver, 79 Gore, Catherine Grace Frances, 216-225, 233 Gosse, Edmund, 170 _Grand Cyrus, The_, 15, 32, 121 _Gulliver's Travels_, 23 Guy Mannering, 102
_Hackney Coachman, The_, 70 Hall, Anna Maria (Mrs. S. C.), 72, 179, 196-199, 216, 293 Hall, S. C., 140 Hamilton, Elizabeth, 133-137 _Hamiltons, The_, 224 Hamlet, 271 _Hard Times_, 282 Hardy, Thomas, 86, 170 _Harriet Stuart, The Life of_, 31 Harry, Blind, the Minstrel, _see_ Blind Harry the Minstrel Haywood, Eliza, 24, 36-39, 48 _Heir of Selwood, The_, 223, 225 Helen, 119 _Henrietta_, 35 _Henry de Pomeroy_, 227 _Henry Esmond_, 145 _Heptameron_, The, 2 Herford, C. H., 193 _Hints towards Forming the Character of a Young Princess_, 71 Homer, 2, 11, 175 Horace, 217 _Hour and the Man, The_, 242, 244-245 Huet, Bishop, Pierre Daniel, 46 _Humphry Clinker_, 8, 24, 44 _Hungarian Brothers_, 139
_Ibrahim_, 32, 121 _Ida, or the Woman of Athens_, 131 _Impetuous Lover, The, or the Guiltless Parricide_, 43 Inchbald, Elizabeth, 41, 73, 82-87, 105, 119, 221, 262 _Inheritance, The_, 181, 182-183, 184, 185, 187-188 _Irish Bulls, Essay on_, 115-116 _Irish Peasantry, Stories of the_, 197, 198 _Italian, The_, 91, 94, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101 Ivanhoe, 164
Jackson, Helen Hunt (H. H.), 16 James, G. P. R., 216, 239 James, Henry, 291 Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 285 _Jane Eyre_, 41, 82, 85, 250, 261, 263, 264-267, 270, 272 _Jealous Wife, The_, 233 Jeffrey, Francis, 180 Joan of Arc, 1 _John Halifax, Gentleman_, 293 _Johnny Ludlow Papers_, 294 Johnson, R. Brimley, 245 Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 30, 31, 32, 39, 42, 46, 48, 55, 60, 62, 103, 128, 138, 291 _Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, The Life and Adventures of_, 237-239, 242 Jonson, Ben, 275 _Joseph Andrews_, 16, 36, 52 _Journey to Bath_, 41 Jules Verne, _see_ Verne, Jules
Kauffman, Angelica, 103 Kavanagh, Julia, 293 _King Lear_, see _Lear_ Knox, John, 188 _Kruitzener, or the German's Tale_, 108-109
_Lady Audley's Secret_, 294 _Lady Clare_, 183 _Lady of Lyons, The_, 223 _Lady's Magazine_, 190 Lafayette, Madame de, 3, 19, 41, 262 Lamb, Lady Caroline, 200-204 Lamb, Charles, 8, 12, 193 Lamb, William (Lord Melbourne), 200, 201, 202, 203, 204 _Landlady's Tale, The_, 109 Lang, Andrew, 102 Lanier, Sidney, 25 _Last Man, The_, 210-212 _Lazy Lawrence_, 125, 126 _Lear, King_, 256 Lee, Harriet, 88, 105-110 Lee, Sophia, 88, 105-110, 139 Lennox, Charlotte, 24, 31-36 _Letters of the Duchess of Newcastle_, 7-8 _Letters to Young Ladies_, 62 Lewis, Matthew Gregory, 101 "Library of Old Authors," Russell Smith, 12 _Life of the Duke of Newcastle_, see _Newcastle, Life of the Duke of_ _Lights and Shadows of Irish Life_, 197-198 _Lilly Dawson, The Story of_, 232 _Literary Gazette_, 202 _Lodore_, 212-214 Longueville, Duchesse de, 3 _Lucius_, 22 Lytton, Bulwer, _see_ Bulwer, Edward (Lord Lytton)
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 57, 61, 113, 168 Machiavelli, Niccolo, 207 Mackay, Sheriff, 143 _Magyar, The, and the Moslem_, 233 _Man and Superman_, 160 _Manchester Strike, A_, 243 Manley, Mary, 1, 19-23, 36 _Mansfield Park_, 61, 162-164, 171, 172 Marcella, 292 Margaret, Queen of Navarre, 2 _Marriage_, 181, 182, 184 Marsh, Anne, 231 Martineau, Harriet, 231, 232, 242-246, 269, 293 _Mary Barton_, 269, 278-281, 282, 283, 289, 292 Masson, David, 179 Maturin, Charles Robert, 101 _Mazeppa_, 206 Memoires du Comte de Comminges, 262 _Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de la vertu_, 42 _Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to Utopia_, 36 _Michael Armstrong, The Life and Adventures of_, 241 _Middlemarch_, 290, 295 _Midsummer Eve, a Fairy Tale of Love_, 198-199 _Mill on the Floss_, The, 289, 295 Mitford, Mary Russell, 81, 144, 179, 183, 189-196, 216, 221, 227, 276, 291, 292 _Monastery, The_, 137, 271 _Monk, The_, 101 Montagu, Elizabeth, 62 Montagu, Mary Wortley, 233 _Monthly Review_, 77 _Monumental Effigies of Great Britain_, 226 Moore, Thomas, 131 _Moorland Cottage, The_, 289 More, Hannah, 62-72, 73 Morgan, Lady, 111, 197, 216 _Music, History of_, 46 _Mysteries of Udolpho, The_, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 99, 101, 104, 105, 141
_Nature and Art_, 85-86 _Nature's Pictures Drawn by Fancy's Pencil_, 7 _New Atalantis_, 19-23 Newcastle, Duchess of, 1, 3-13 Newcastle, Duke of, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 _Newcastle, Life of the Duke of_, 10-12 _Noctes Ambrosianae_, 183 _Nocturnal Reverie_, 79 North, Christopher (John James Wilson), 183, 185 _North and South_, 281-284, 289, 292 _Northanger Abbey_, 101, 160-161, 177 _Notre Dame de Paris_, 256 "Novelists' Library," 121 _Novels by Eminent Hands_, 217 _Nun, The, or the Perjured Duty_, 18
_O'Briens, The, and the O'Flahertys_, 129, 130-131 _O'Donnel_, 129-130 _Odyssey_, 113 _Old English Baron, The_, 88, 89 _Old Manor House, The_, 77-78, 79, 80 Oliphant, Mrs. Margaret, 294, 295 Opie, Mrs. Amelia, 41, 73, 149-153, 156, 216, 262 _Orange Girl of St. Giles's, The_, 69-70 Ormond, 113-115 _Oroonoko_, 13-18, 237, 242 _Orphans, The_, 126 _Othello_, 276 Ouida, 294 _Our Village_, 189, 190-193, 195, 196, 243 Owenson, Sydney, _see_ Morgan, Lady
_Pamela_, 8, 17, 18, 24, 31, 35, 46, 78, 164, 266 _Paradise Lost_, 72, 79 Pardoe, Julia, 231-234 _Pastor's Fireside, The_, 146 _Patronage_, 119 _Pelham_, 200 _Pendennis_, 200 _Perkin Warbeck, The Fortunes of_, 214 _Persuasion_, 158, 162-164, 167, 170, 172 Phillips, Wendell, 244 _Pickwick Papers_, 56 _Pilgrimages to English Shrines_, 72 _Pin Money_, 222-223 Plato, 11 _Political Economy Tales_, 242-243 _Polly Honeycomb_, 42, 43 Pope, Alexander, 22, 79, 160 Porter, Anna Maria, 133, 137-140, 216 Porter, Jane, 133, 137, 138, 140-148, 216 _Preferment, or My Uncle the Earl_, 220 Prevost, Abbe, 42 _Pride and Prejudice_, 157, 158-159, 161, 164, 166, 170, 171, 173, 175, 176, 178 Princess of Cleves, The, 41, 262 _Professor, The_, 270
_Quarterly Review_, 131, 147, 148
Radcliffe, Ann, 88, 89-105, 108, 179, 270 Rambouillet, Marquise de, 3 Ramee, Louise de la, _see_ Ouida Ramsey, Charlotte, _see_ Lennox, Charlotte _Rape of the Lock_, 22 _Rasselas_, 46 _Recess, The_, 105-106 Reeve, Clara, 88-89 _Refugee in America, The_, 237 Richardson, Samuel, 8, 9, 17, 24, 26, 30, 31, 34, 36, 37, 48, 101, 154, 171, 277, 291 _Rights of Man_, 64 _Rights of Woman, Vindication of the_, see _Vindication of
the Rights of Woman_ Ritchie, Mrs., 126, 294 _Rival Beauties, The_, 233 _Rivals, The_, 41, 43 _Rob Roy_, 102 _Robinson Crusoe_, 146, 296 Rogers, Samuel, 201 _Romance of the Forest, The_, 91, 92, 93, 97, 101 _Romance of the Harem, The_, 233 _Romance of the West, A_, 228 Romeo and Juliet, 275 _Romola_, 290 Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 73, 118 Ruskin, 195 _Ruth_, 281, 284-285, 286, 292
_St. Ronan's Well_, 174 Saintsbury, George, 185, 186 Sand, George, 262, 263, 288 Sappho, 1 Schlosser, 44 Scott, Sir Walter, 18, 36, 102, 103, 104, 105, 118, 128, 141, 144, 155, 164, 173, 179, 180, 181, 184, 216, 225, 228, 229, 230, 264, 271, 277, 296 _Scottish Chiefs, The_, 142-145 Scuderi, Mlle. de, 3, 19, 32, 33, 35, 120, 121 _Seasons, The_, 79 _Secret Intrigues of the Count of Caramania, The_, 36 _Selborne, The Natural History and Antiquities of_, 191 _Self-Control_, 154-155, 156 _Sense and Sensibility_, 159-160, 161, 170, 171 Sevigne, Madame, de, 3 Shakespeare, William, 5, 103, 128, 168, 169, 170, 174, 271, 275 _Shakespeare, Essay on the Genius of_, 62 Shaw, Bernard, 160 Shelley, Mary, 200, 204-215, 262 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 204, 205, 206, 208, 210-214 _Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, The_, 68, 69, 72 Sheridan, Mrs. Frances, 24, 39-42 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 40, 41 _Shirley_, 267-270 _Sicilian Romance, The_, 91, 93, 94 _Sidney Biddulph, The Memoirs of Miss_, 39-42, 74 _Silas Marner_, 289 _Simple Story, A_, 82-84, 262 _Simple Susan_, 126-127 _Simple Tales_, 153 _Sir Charles Grandison_, 8, 37, 53 _Sir Edward Seaward's Narrative_, 146-148 _Sister, The_, 35 _Sketches by Boz_, 241 _Sketches of English Character_, 219-220 _Sketches of Irish Character_, 196-197 Smith, Charlotte, 41, 73-82, 87, 102, 103, 105, 191, 221 Smith Russell, "Library of Old Authors," _see_ "Library of Old Authors" Smollett, Tobias, 8, 23, 24, 88, 101, 179 _Soldier of Lyons, The, a Tale of the Tuileries_, 223 Sothern, Thomas, 13, 15 Souza, Madame de, 262 _Spectator Papers_, 7, 29 Stael, Madame de (Anne Louise Necker), 262, 263 Steele, Richard, 21, 22, 28 Sterne, Laurence, 24, 25, 88, 102, 169 _Stories of the Irish Peasantry_, see _Irish Peasantry, Stories of the_ Stothard, Charles, 226 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 15, 238, 293 Swift, Jonathan, 22, 23 Swinburne, Charles Algernon, 256 _Sybil_, 269, 279 _Sylvia's Lovers_, 285-286
Taine, 25 _Talba, The, or Moor of Portugal_, 226 _Tale of Two Cities_, 145 _Tales of Fashionable Life_, 119-120 _Tales of my Landlord, The_, 181 _Tales of Real Life_, 153 _Tales that Never Die_, 127 _Tatler, The_, 22, 29 _Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The_, 259-261 Tencin, Mme. de, 262 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 183, 286 Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 284 Thackeray, Anna Isabella, _see_ Ritchie, Mrs. Thackeray, William Makepeace, 87, 102, 116, 120, 164, 176, 216, 217, 231, 237, 247, 264, 277, 288, 291, 296 _Thaddeus of Warsaw_, 140-141 _Theresa Marchmont_, 217 _Thomas the Rhymer_, 104 Thrale, Mrs. (Mrs. Piozzi), 48 _Three Paths, The_, 293 _Tintern Abbey_, 93 Tolstoi, Count Leo, 86, 170 _Tom Jones_, 26, 37, 53, 141 Tourgenieff, 170 _Trelawny of Trelawne; or the Prophecy: a Legend of Cornwall_, 228 Trollope, Anthony, 234, 239 Trollope, Frances, 231, 232, 234-242, 243, 269
_Udolpho, The Mysteries of_, see _Mysteries of Udolpho, The_ _Uncle Tom's Cabin_, 15, 238, 293 _Undine_, 254
_Valperga: or the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca_, 207-210 _Vanity Fair_, 164, 288 _Venetia_, 200 Verne, Jules, 6 _Vicar of Wakefield, The_, 46, 79, 296 _Vicar of Wrexhill, The_, 240 _Village Politics: Addressed to all Mechanics, Journeymen, and Labourers in Great Britain. By Will Chip, a Country Carpenter_, 64-65 _Villette_, 270-273 _Vindication of the Rights of Woman_, 74, 149, 204 Vivian, 119, 122 _Vivian Grey_, 200, 216, 217, 219 Voltaire, Francois, 73
Wallace, 143 Walpole, Horace, 88, 89 _Wanderer, The, or Female Difficulties_, 59, 60 Ward, A. W., 288 Ward, Mrs. Humphry, 267 _Warleigh, or the Fatal Oak; a Legend of Devon_, 227 _Waste Not, Want Not_, 125 _Waverley_, 45, 60, 137, 144, 155, 178 _Waverley Novels_, 102, 117, 145, 216 Welsh, Charles, 67, 127 _Werner, or the Inheritance_, 109 _Westminster Review_, 221, 224 White, Gilbert, 191 _White Hoods, The_, 226 _Whole Duty of Man_, 64 _Widow Barnaby_, 239 _Widow Married, The_, 239 _Widow Wedded, The, or the Barnabys in America_, 239 _Wild Irish Girl, The_, 129 _Will Chip, a Country Carpenter_, see _Village Politics_ _Winchelsea, Lady_, 79 _Window in Thrums, The_, 137 _Windsor Forest_, 79 _Wives and Daughters_, 287-288, 292, 293 Wollstonecraft, Mary, 73, 74, 149, 150, 204, 205, 210 Wood, Mrs. Henry, 293 Wordsworth, William, 79, 93, 127, 165, 241 _Wuthering Heights_, 249, 256, 258, 261, 265, 267, 271 _Wycherley, William_, 13
_Yere-Batan-Serai_, 234 Yonge, Charlotte Mary, 294
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