Table of Contents

Sources and acknowledgements; Editor's introduction; 1. Mrs Inchbald: A Simple Story; 2. 'That great controversy': the novel of religious controversy in the nineteenth century; 3. The Anglo-lrish novel; 4. Appendix: 5. Notes on some Anglo-lrish novels; 6. Women writers of the nineteenth century; 7. The development of character in George Eliot's novels; 8. Appendix; 9. Mrs Oliphant: Miss Varjoribanks (Introduction); 10. Mrs Oliphant: The Autobiography and Letters (Introduction); 11. Trollope and Evangelicalism; 12. Howard Sturgis: Belchamber; 13. Literary values and the novel; 14. Leslie Stephen: Cambridge critic; 15. Professor Chadwick and English studies; Reviews; Notes.

Promotional Information

This third volume of Q. D. Leavis's essays brings together pieces on hitherto unexplored aspects of Victorian literature.

Reviews

These essays, written by Q.D. Leavis toward the end of her life, investigate previously unexplored aspects of Victorian literature and include essays and reviews that appeared originally in Scrutiny.

"The completion of the publication by Cambridge University Press of the three volumes of the Collected Essays of Q. D. Leavis makes it possible to estimate the achievement of this remarkable writer." Donald Lyons, The New Criterion