Victorian Bestseller: The Life of Dinah Craik

by Karen Bourrier

When novelist Dinah Craik (1826-87) died, expressions of grief came from Lord Alfred Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, T.H. Huxley, and James Russell Lowell, among others, and even Queen Victoria picked up her pen to offer her consolation to the widower. Despite Craik's enormous popularity throughout a literary career that spanned forty years, she is now all but forgotten. Yet, in an otherwise respectable life bookended by scandal, this was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472131389
• ISBN13: 9780472131389
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"