Victorian prose masters;: Thackeray, Carlyle, George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Ruskin, George Meredith

by William Crary Brownell

Excerpt from Victorian Prose Masters: Thackeray, Carlyle, George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Ruskin, George Meredith
Have never felt in reading any of his books that this difficulty of the novelist existed for Thackeray at all. It was not an obstacle he had to circumvent. Whether we agree with Maupassant that in general it.
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289 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1969

About the author

Brownell graduated from Amherst College in 1871, from where he also later received two honorary degrees. From 1871 to 1879 he wrote for the New York World, and from 1879 to 1881 he was on the staff of The Nation. He was a literary advisor at Charles Scribner's Sons from 1888 until 1926. In her autobiography, A Backward Glance, Edith Wharton mentions him appreciatively as one of the finest literary men of his age and a significant contributor to the New York literary scene. He was married to author Gertrude Hall Brownell.