Six critical essays in which Meynell takes up writers whose reputations had become battlegrounds. She defends Tennyson against the detractors of his centenary, weighs Dickens as a man of letters, examines Swinburne’s lyrics, compares Charlotte and Emily Brontë, considers Shakespeare’s Charmian and closes with a meditation on the Victorian ‘century of moderation’.
Fine, opinionated criticism from one of the most admired essayists of her day, for readers of Victorian literature. Download the free EPUB.