Word: walford
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Errant," "We Two," by E. Lyall; "A Sailor's Sweetheart," by W. C. Russell; "Sketches in Italy," "New Italian Sketches," by J. A. Symonds; "The Initials," "Quits," by Baroness Tautphoeus; "Can You Forgive Her?", "The Duke's Children," "The Prime Minister," by A. Trollope; "Mr. Smith," by L. B. Walford; "Marcella," "Robert Elsmere," by Mrs. H. Ward...
...toward elaborate portrayal of persons or events. Thus, Mr. Hardy has been less successful in the tales entitled "Fellow Travellers," "Interlopers at the Knap," and in others that might be named, than would have been expected from a writer of his imagination and other rich gifts. Mrs. Oliphant, Mrs. Walford, and even Mrs. Gaskill have written stories after the manner of the novel-chapter already referred to, and only Mr. Kipling, an Anglo-Indian, and Stevenson, a Scotchman, among contemporary British writers have had uniform artistic success in this sort of work. Guy de Maupassant is the master of contemporary...