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Trends In The Treatment Of Women In Fiction, 1890-1910, Gertrude M. Richards

English Language and Literature ETDs

This thesis proposes to examine six novels of the period 1890-1910 for evidence of new trends in the treatment of women in fiction and for signs of social criticism. The novels chosen are major works of representative British and American realists and naturalists. The authors to be considered, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, George Moore, George Gissing, Theodore Dreiser, and Arnold Bennett, were writers who, in varying degrees, came under the influence of the Continental writers who were the cause of the aforementioned controversy.

Life And Writings Of Mary Hayden Green Pike (1824-1908), Rachel Reed Griffin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Although sketches of the life of Mary Hayden Green Pike appear in Appletons1 Cyclopaedia of American Biography and in the Dictionary of American Biography, an extended study of her life and works has not been written. Whatever the cause of her obscurity, her popularity as a novelist of the "feminine fifties," her enthusiasm for the abolitionist cause, and her value as a propagandist seem to merit more than literary oblivion.

Mary Hayden Green Pike, a pre-Civil War novelist of Calais, Maine, was one of the more popular writers to follow in the wake of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Deeply concerned with …

English Contemporary Opinion Of The American Civil War, Vorice Jackson Waters

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation

It is the purpose of this study to present a survey of British opinion during the entire period of the Civil War. An attempt has been made to analyze some fundamental factors underlying main events and to evaluate outstanding characters whose personalities were instrumental in determining public opinion.

An Investigation Of The "Fragile Escape" In The Work Of Elinor Wylie, Claribel A. Moroney

Master's Theses

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