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Notable British Novelists This Page Intentionally Left Blank MAGILL’S C H O I C E Notable British Novelists Volume 1 Richard Adams — Ford Madox Ford 1 – 350 edited by Carl Rollyson SALEM PRESS, INC. Pasadena, California Hackensack, New Jersey Disclaimer: Some images in the original version of this book are not available for inclusion in the eBook. Copyright ©2001,bySalem Press,Inc. Allrightsinthisbookarereserved.Nopartofthisworkmay beusedorreproducedinanymannerwhatsoeverortransmit- ted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyrightownerexceptinthecaseofbriefquotationsembod- iedincriticalarticlesandreviews.Forinformationaddressthe publisher,Salem Press, Inc.,P.O.Box50062,Pasadena,Cali- fornia91115. Essays originally appeared in Critical Survey of Long Fiction, SecondRevisedEdition,2000;newmaterial hasbeenadded. ¥ ThepaperusedinthesevolumesconformstotheAmerican National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Li- braryMaterials,Z39.48-1992(R1997). Library ofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData NotableBritish novelists/editor,CarlRollyson p. cm.—(Magill’s choice) Includes bibliographicalreferences andindex. ISBN0-89356-204-1(set:alk.paper).— ISBN0-89356-208-4(v.1:alk.paper).— ISBN0-89356-209-2(v.2:alk.paper).— ISBN0-89356-237-8(v.3:alk.paper) 1. English fiction-—Bio-bibliography-—Dictionaries. 2. Nov- elists,English—Biography—Dictionaries.3.Englishfiction—Dic- tionaries I.Rollyson,CarlE.(CarlEdmund)II.Series. PR821.N57 2001 820.9¢0003—dc21 [B] 00-046380 FirstPrinting printedintheunitedstatesofamerica Contents — Volume 1 Publisher’s Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii List of Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Complete List of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii Richard Adams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Kingsley Amis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Martin Amis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Jane Austen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 J. G. Ballard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Julian Barnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Aphra Behn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58 Arnold Bennett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65 Elizabeth Bowen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Charlotte Brontë . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83 Emily Brontë . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92 Anita Brookner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98 John Bunyan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Anthony Burgess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Fanny Burney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Samuel Butler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Lewis Carroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Angela Carter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Joyce Cary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 G. K. Chesterton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Agatha Christie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Arthur C. Clarke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Wilkie Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Ivy Compton-Burnett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Joseph Conrad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 A. J. Cronin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Daniel Defoe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Walter de la Mare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 Charles Dickens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251 Arthur Conan Doyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Margaret Drabble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 Daphne Du Maurier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 Lawrence Durrell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 v Notable BritishNovelists Maria Edgeworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 George Eliot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 Henry Fielding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 Ford Madox Ford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 vi Publisher’s Note NotableBritishNovelistsconsistsofbiographicalsketchesandanalysesof104of the best-known English, Scottish, and Irish writers of long fiction from the fifteenth throughthetwentiethcenturies.Theset’sthreevolumes,whichareacombinationof newessaysandupdatedessaysfromThe CriticalSurveyofLongFiction,SecondRevised Edition(2000),examine the works most oftenstudiedinhighschool andundergradu- ateliteratureclasses. Notable British Novelists profiles eighty-nine English, six Scottish, and nine Irish writers.TheIrishwriterschosenforthissetlivedunderBritishrulebeforethecreation oftheIrishFreeStatein1922orhadcareersthatwerecloselyassociatedwithGreat Britain;therefore,suchmodernIrishmastersasJamesJoyceandSamuelBeckettare not included. Notable British Novelists examines novelists from the early fifteenth century, such as Sir Thomas Malory, to the present. Seventeenth century writers include Aphra Behn and Samuel Butler, and eighteenth century authors Fanny Burney,Henry Fielding, Ann Radcliffe, and LaurenceSternearefeatured.Included in the discussions of nineteenth century writers are Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, ElizabethGaskell,ThomasHardy,MaryWollstonecraftShelley,RobertLouisSteven- son, and Anthony Trollope. Authors of the twentieth century include Margaret Drabble,AldousHuxley,AnthonyPowell,andVirginiaWoolf. Arangeofgenresandstylesisexploredinthisset,fromthe gothicismofCharlotte and Emily Brontë and Matthew Gregory Lewis to the postmodernism of Anthony Burgess. Fantasy fiction is represented by Lewis Carroll, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien,andthesciencefictionofArthurC.ClarkeandH.G.Wellsisincluded.Among thedetectiveandmysterywritersfeaturedareAgathaChristie,ArthurConanDoyle, and P. D. James, and writers of satire include Jonathan Swift, Tobias Smollett, and Martin Amis. Also featured are the historical novels of Sir Walter Scott and Robert GravesandthefeministfictionofDorothyRichardson,JeanRhys,andFayWeldon. Eachessayprovidesreferenceinformationatitsbeginning:thenovelist’sbirthand death dates and a list of the principal works of long fiction, with publication dates. Thisisfollowedby“Other literaryforms,”whichbrieflylooksattheauthor’sworks of drama, poetry, nonfiction, or short fiction, and “Achievements,” which notes principalhonorsandawards.Themajorsectionsofthetextfollow:“Biography”offers asummary ofthewriter’spersonalandprofessional life, and“Analysis”looks atthe author’s work in detail. The longest section in the article, “Analysis” is divided into subsections focusing on the major individual works. These subsections offer a short summary ofthework and illustrate thethemes and techniques usedby thenovelist. “Other major works” follows “Analysis” and is a categorized list of major works in genres other than long fiction, with publication dates. Each essay ends with an updated, annotated bibliography. The majority of essays are accompanied by a portraitoftheauthor. Thethree-volumesetisarrangedalphabetically.Threehelpfulreferencetoolsare featuredattheendofvolume3:aglossaryof“Termsandtechniques,”atimelineof thenovelists’birthdatesandplaces,andanindex.Alistofcontributingscholarsand theiraffiliationsappearsatthebeginningofvolume1. vii This Page Intentionally Left Blank List of Contributors McCreaAdams JohnR.Clark Independentscholar UniversityofSouthFlorida MichaelAdams SamuelCoale CUNYGraduateCenter Independentscholar PatrickAdcock DavidW.Cole HendersonStateUniversity UniversityofWisconsinCenter-Baraboo S.KrishnamoorthyAithal DeborahCore IndianInstituteofTechnology EasternKentuckyUniversity JaneAndersonJones CarolI.Croxton ManateeCommunityCollege UniversityofSouthernColorado StanleyArcher MarshaDaigle-Williamson TexasA&MUniversity SpringArborCollege GeraldS.Argetsinger DianeD’Amico RochesterInstituteofTechnology Independentscholar BryanAubrey J.MadisonDavis Independentscholar PennsylvaniaStateUniversity JamesBarbour FrankDay Independentscholar ClemsonUniversity CarolM.Barnum PaulJ.deGategno SouthernCollegeofTechnology NorthCarolinaWesleyanColllege DavidBarratt DeVitis,A.A. Independentscholar PurdueUniversity KirkH.Beetz HenryJ.Donaghy Independentscholar KansasStateUniversity ToddK.Bender DavidB.Eakin UniversityofWisconsin,Madison UniversityofMississippi K.BhaskaraRao GraceEckley PhysicalResearchLaboratory Independentscholar MaryA.Blackmon WiltonEckley Hardin-SimmonsUniversity ColoradoSchoolofMines SteveD.Boilard RobertP.Ellis Independentscholar Independentscholar MitziM.Brunsdale AnnWillardsonEngar MayvilleStateCollege Independentscholar C.F.Burgess KennethFriedenreich Independentscholar Independentscholar ix
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