Chapter XVIII: Conclusion

Mrs. Gaskell died on the twelfth of November, 1865. Of the novelists who have been considered in this book only three survived her, Mrs. Bray, Mrs. S. C. Hall, and Harriet Martineau, but they added little to prose fiction after that date. During the third quarter of the nineteenth century, however, the number of books written by women continued to increase each year. Julia Kavanagh was the author of several novels, the first of which _The Three Paths_, was published in 1848; all her stories were written with high moral aim and delicacy of feeling. _Uncle Tom's Cabin_, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1850, is probably the most powerful novel ever written to plead the cause of oppressed humanity. Dinah Maria Muloch Craik kept up the interest in the domestic novel; her most popular book, _John Halifax, Gentleman_, has lost none of its charm for young women, even if it does not meet the requirements of a classic. Mrs. Henry Wood is still remembered as the author of the melodramatic _East Lynne_, but her best stories are the _Johnny Ludlow Papers_, which deal with character alone; her popularity is attested by the fact that more than a million copies of her books have been issued. Charlotte Yonge's forgotten novels were classed among the _Church Stories_, because they contain so much piety and devotion. Of a different 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 questionable in conduct. Miss Braddon, the author of _Lady Audley's Secret_, excelled in complicated plots. Mrs. Oliphant has been a most versatile writer, and followed almost every style of prose fiction; her domestic stories are 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 Broughton has entertained the reading public by love stories which hold the attention until the marriage takes place. But all these women fade into insignificance beside George Eliot, whose first story, _The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton_, appeared in _Blackwood's Magazine_ in 1857, and whose last novel, _Daniel Deronda_, was published nearly twenty years later, in 1876.

It seems strange that any reader of her books should have thought them the product of a man's brain, as was at first believed. For, notwithstanding her power in developing a plot, her breadth of view, and her mental grasp, her genius is essentially feminine. She excelled in analysis of character, in attention to details, in ethical teaching, and in artistic truthfulness, the qualities in which women have been pre-eminent. Only a woman's pen could have drawn such characters as Dinah Morris, Maggie Tulliver, and Dorothea Casaubon, or could have followed the minute and subtle influences under which the plot of _Middlemarch_ is shaped. George Eliot has left a larger portrait gallery of women than any other novelist. Not only has she drawn different grades of society, but, what is perhaps a more difficult task, she has drawn the different grades of spiritual greatness and moral littleness. She brought the psychological novel to a degree of perfection which has never 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 which is pushed with greater zeal every day, as to the position of women in literature and the height which it is in their power to attain, was solved by this remarkable woman, in a way most flattering to all who were and are fighting the question of equality between the two halves of mankind; for here was visibly a woman who was to be kept out by no barriers, who sat down quietly from the beginning of her career in the highest place, and, if she did not absolutely excel all her contemporaries in the revelation of the human mind and the creation of new human beings, at least was second to none in those distinguishing characteristics of genius."

We are too near the nineteenth century to decide as to the relative positions of its great novelists. At one time George Eliot was placed at the head of all writers of fiction, with Dickens and Thackeray as rivals for the second place. But she was dethroned by Thackeray, and there are signs that the final kingship will be given to Charles Dickens, unless Scott receives it instead.

Fashions in novels change at least every fifty years. Exciting plots and situations, strong emotional scenes, sharp contrasts, are not demanded by present readers, who also turn away with disgust from the saintly heroine and the irreclaimable villain. Of the many volumes of fiction written in the eighteenth century only two are in general circulation to-day, _Robinson Crusoe_ and _The Vicar of Wakefield_. But all those once popular novels, even if their very names are now forgotten, have done their work in shaping the thought and morals of their own and succeeding 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 Sketches 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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