THE WOMEN NOVELISTS
BY
R. BRIMLEY JOHNSON
AUTHOR OF
“TALES PROM CHAUCER” “TOWARDS RELIGION”
“TENNYSON AND HIS POETRY”
CONTENTS
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Introduction 1
Before Miss Burney
The First Woman Novelist 7
Fanny Burney, 1752-1840
A Picture of Youth 35
Fanny Burney’s “Camilla”
“Cecilia” to “Sense and Sensibility” 54
Writers from 1782-1811
A Study in Fine Art 66
Jane Austen, 1775-1817
A “Most Accomplished Coquette” 105
Jane Austen’s “Lady Susan”
Parallel Passages 117
Jane Austen and Fanny Burney
“Persuasion” to “Jane Eyre” 131
Writers from 1818-1847
A Lonely Soul 164
Charlotte Brontë, 1816-1855[Pg viii]
“Jane Eyre” to “Scenes of Clerical Life” 179
Writers from 1847-1858
A Professional Woman 204
George Eliot, 1819-1880
The Great Four 226
Burney, Austen, Brontë, George Eliot
The Woman’s Man 245
An Ideal and a Point of View
Personalities 263
Character Analysis and Biographical Outlines
Conclusion 282
Appendix—List of Minor Writers 293
Index to Authors and Titles 297
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