Cometh Up as a Flower

ISBN-13: 9781551118055 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 416 str.

Rhoda Broughton;Pamela K. Gilbert

Opis

Features Nell LeStrange, the heroine, who is tricked by her calculating sister into leaving her poor lover and marrying a wealthy man she does not love. This novel includes the heroine's frank discussion of her sexual attraction to her lover, and her dispassionate evaluation of loveless marriage as a form of self-sale.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Rhoda Broughton: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

Cometh Up As A Flower

Appendix A: The Publication of the Novel

1. Serialization in Dublin University Magazine (1866–67)
2. Epilogue to the Serial Version of the Novel (1867)
3. Correspondence from the Bentley Archives (1866)

Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews of the Novel

1. The London Review (16 March 1867)
2. Athenaeum (20 April 1867)
3. The Times (6 June 1867)
4. The Spectator (19 October 1867)

Appendix C: Contemporary Reviews of Sensation Fiction

1. “Sensation Novels,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (May 1862)
2. “Sensation Novels,” Medical Critic and Psychological Journal (1863)
3. “Sensation Novels,” Quarterly Review (1863)
4. “Novels,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (September 1867)

Appendix D: Punch Magazine’s Parody of the Author

1. From “Prefatory Correspondence” (18 March 1876)
2. From Gone Wrong (1876)

Appendix E: Attitudes Toward Women and Marriage in Victorian Society

1. From Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Daughters of England (1845)
2. From Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
3. From Marie Corelli, The Modern Marriage Market (1898)
4. From Flora Annie Steel, The Modern Marriage Market (1898)
5. From Susan, Countess of Malmesbury, The Modern Marriage Market (1898)

Appendix F: Discourses on Health in Victorian Medicine

1. From Henry Ancell, A Treatise on Tuberculosis, the Constitutional Origin of Consumption and Scrofula (1852)
2. From Sir James Clark, A Treatise on Pulmonary Consumption (1837)
3. From T.H. Yeoman, M.D., Consumption of the Lungs, or Decline (1848)
4. From Anon., The Causes and Prevention of Consumption (1835)
5. From Rowland East, The Two Dangerous Diseases of England, Consumption and Apoplexy (1842)
6. From Thomas Trotter, M.D., A View of the Nervous Temperament [1812]

Appendix G: Attitudes Toward Women and Sexuality

1. From William Acton, The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs (1875)
2. From Elizabeth Blackwell, “On the Abuses of Sex,” Essays in Medical Sociology (1902)
3. From Eliza Lynn Linton, “The Girl of the Period,” Saturday Review (14 March 1868)

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