III On the Novelists
Brontë.
Birrell, Augustine: Life of Charlotte Brontë. Walter Scott, 1887.
Gaskell, Mrs.: Life of Charlotte Brontë. Harper, 1902.
Goldring, Maude: Charlotte Brontë, the Woman; a Study. Scribner, 1916.
Shorter, C. K.: The Brontës: Life and Letters. Scribner, 1900.
Butler.
Cannan, Gilbert: Samuel Butler, a Critical Study. London, 1915.
Harris, J. E.: Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon. London, 1916.
Dickens.
Chesterton, G. K.: Charles Dickens, a Critical Study. Dodd, Mead, 1906.
Chesterton, G. K.: Appreciation and Criticism of the Works of Charles Dickens. Dent, 1911.
Cooper, F. T.: (Translator from the French of Keine and Lumet, in the Great Men Series.) Stokes, 1914.
Crotch, W. W.: The Pageant of Dickens. Chapman and Hall, 1916.
The Soul of Dickens. Chapman and Hall, 1916.
Charles Dickens, Social Reformer. Chapman and Hall, 1916.
Fitzgerald, P. H.: The Life of Charles Dickens as Revealed in his Works. Chatto and Windus, 1905.
Forster, John: Life of Charles Dickens. (Now included with the Gadshill edition). Chapman and Hall, 1904.
Gissing, George: Charles Dickens, a Critical Study. Dodd, Mead, 1898.
Hughes, J. L.: Dickens as an Educator. Appleton, 1901.
Marzials, Sir Frank: Life of Charles Dickens. Walter Scott, 1887.
Swinburne, C. A.: Charles Dickens. London, 1913.
Ward, A. W.: Charles Dickens. (Men of Letters.) Harper, 1901.
Disraeli.
Arnot, Robert: The Earl of Beaconsfield. Dunn, 1904.
Brandes, Georg: Lord Beaconsfield, a Study. Scribner, 1880.
Froude, J. A.: Lord Beaconsfield. (Prime Ministers of Queen Victoria.) London, 1890.
Mill, John: Disraeli, the Author, Orator, and Statesman. London, 1863.
Moneypenny and Buckle: Life of Benjamin Disraeli. Macmillan, 1916.
O’Connor, T. P.: Lord Beaconsfield, a Biography. Fisher Unwin, 1905.
Eliot.
Blind, Mathilde: George Eliot. (Eminent Women.) Allen, 1884.
Browning, Oscar: Life of George Eliot. (Great Writers). Walter Scott, 1892.
Cooke, G. W.: George Eliot, a Critical Study. Houghton, Mifflin, 1883.
Cross, J. W.: Life and Letters of George Eliot. Blackwood, 1885.
Stephen, Leslie: George Eliot. (Men of Letters.) Macmillan, 1902.
Thomson, Clara: George Eliot. (Westminster Biographies.) Paul, Trench, 1901.
Gaskell.
Shorter, Clement: Life of Mrs. Gaskell. (Men of Letters.) Macmillan, 1904.
Kingsley.
Kaufman, M.: Charles Kingsley, Christian Socialist and Social Reformer. London, 1892.
Stubbs, C. W.: Charles Kingsley and the Christian Social Movement. (Victorian Era.) London, 1899.
Lytton.
Cooper, Thomas: Lord Lytton. (Men of the Time.) Routledge, 1873.
Lytton, Earl of: Life of Edward Bulwer, first Lord Lytton. Macmillan, 1913.
Meredith.
Bailey, E. J.: The Novels of George Meredith. Scribner, 1907.
Beach, J. W.: The Comic Spirit in Meredith. Longmans, Green, 1911.
Crees, J. H. E.: George Meredith, a Study. Oxford University Press, 1918.
Curle, R. H. P.: Aspects of George Meredith. Dutton, 1908.
Hammerton, J. A.: George Meredith in Anecdote and Criticism. London, 1909.
Le Gallienne, Richard: George Meredith, Some Characteristics. Lane, 1915.
Lynch, Hannah: George Meredith. London, 1891.
Moffat, James: A Primer to the Novels of George Meredith. London, 1909.
Trevelyan, G. M.: The Poetry and Philosophy of George Meredith. London, 1913.
Peacock.
Freeman, A. M.: Thomas Love Peacock, a Critical Study. Kennerley, 1911.
Paul, H.: The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock. London, 1904.
Van Doren, Carl: Life of Thomas Love Peacock. Dutton, 1911.
Young, A. B.: Life and Novels of Thomas Love Peacock. Norwich, 1904.
Reade.
Coleman, John: Charles Reade. London, 1903.
Thackeray.
Benjamin, L. S.: (Lewis Melville.) William Makepeace Thackeray, a Biography. Lane, 1910.
Benjamin, L. S.: Some Aspects of Thackeray. Little, Brown, 1911.
Chesterton and Melville: Thackeray. London, 1903.
Jack, A. A.: Thackeray, a Study. London, 1895.
Merivale and Marzials: Life of William Makepeace Thackeray. Scott, 1891.
Trollope, Anthony: William Makepeace Thackeray. (Men of Letters.) Macmillan, 1905.
Whibley, Charles: William Makepeace Thackeray. (Modern English Writers.) London, 1904.
Trollope.
Escott, Thomas: Anthony Trollope. Lane, 1913.
Nearly half these novelists left collections of letters. Lytton’s and George Eliot’s were published with their biographies. The others are:
Dickens. Edited by Mamie Dickens and Georgina Hogarth. Latest edition, Macmillan, 1893.
Meredith. Edited by his son. Scribner, 1912.
Thackeray.
A Collection of Letters of Thackeray. (To the Brookfields.) Scribner, 1887.
Letters of Thackeray to an American Family. Smith, Elder, 1904.
Some Family Letters of William Makepeace Thackeray. Houghton, Mifflin, 1911.
The only autobiography is Trollope’s. Edited by H. M. Trollope. Harper, 1883.
Two especially noteworthy pieces of editorial Introduction should be mentioned: Garnett’s for Peacock, and Mrs. Ritchie’s for Thackeray. Among the many essays and shorter studies are the following:
Brontë, in Gates’s Studies and Appreciations; and Swinburne’s A Note on Charlotte Brontë.
Eliot, in Darmstetter’s English Studies, Dowden’s Studies in Literature, Morley’s Critical Miscellanies, Myers’ Modern Essays, and Sherer’s Essays on English Literature.
Meredith, in Elton’s Modern Studies, Henderson’s Interpreters of Life and the Modern Spirit, and Sherman’s On Contemporary Literature. Forman is editor of a volume Some Early Appreciations of Meredith.
Reade, in Swinburne’s Miscellanies.
Trollope, in Bradford’s A Naturalist of Souls, and Julian Hawthorne’s Confessions in Criticism.
And finally there are certain combinations and groups, such as:
Brontë and Eliot, in Bonnell’s Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Jane Austen.
Brontë, Dickens, Eliot, Thackeray, and Trollope, in Saintsbury’s Corrected Impressions; and Peacock, in his Essays in English Literature.
Brontë, Disraeli, Kingsley, and Eliot, in Stephen’s Hours in a Library; and Trollope, in his Studies of a Biographer.
Dickens and Thackeray, in Bagehot’s Literary Studies, and Field’s Yesterdays with Authors.
Dickens, Thackeray, and Eliot, in Clark’s Study of English Prose Writers.
Dickens, Thackeray, and Kingsley, in Lang’s Essays in Little.
Dickens and Lytton, in Home’s New Spirit of the Age.
Dickens, in Hutton’s Criticism on Contemporary Thought and Thinkers, and Eliot, in his Essays on Some Modern Guides to English Thought.
Dickens, Disraeli, Gaskell, and Meredith, in More’s Shelburne Essays.
Disraeli and Peacock, in Garnett’s Essays of an ex-Librarian.
Eliot, in Berle’s George Eliot and Thomas Hardy.
Eliot and Trollope, in James’s Partial Portraits.
The following editions of the novelists are those referred to in the text.
Brontë.
Jane Eyre. Haworth edition. Harper.
Shirley and Villette. Dent edition.
Butler.
Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited. Dutton.
The Way of All Flesh. Modern Library edition. Boni and Liveright.
Dickens.
Pickwick, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, Tale of Two Cities, Our Mutual Friend. Hearst International edition.
Great Expectations, and Edwin Drood. The Jefferson Press.
Dombey and Son. Crowell.
Barnaby Rudge. Chapman and Hall.
Disraeli. Longmans, Green.
Eliot.
Middlemarch and Mill on the Floss. Blackwood.
All the others, Scribners’ Standard edition.
Gaskell. Smith, Elder.
Kingsley. Macmillan.
Lytton. Knebworth edition. Routledge and Sons.
Meredith.
Sandra Belloni, Celt and Saxon, and One of Our Conquerors: Scribner.
All the others, Constable.
Peacock. Aldine edition. Dent.
Reade. Dana Estes.
Trollope.
Cathedral Series and The Claverings: Smith, Elder.
Manor House Series. Dodd, Mead.
The Bertrams. Harper.
The Way We Live Now. Chapman and Hall.
Thackeray. Dana Estes.