Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives

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The Lives
of the
Novelists

 
The Lives
of the
Novelists

A History of Fiction in 294 Lives

 

John Sutherland

 

First published in Great Britain in 2011 by

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Contents
 

Preface

 

Acknowledgements

 

Abbreviations

 

The Seventeenth Century

1. John Bunyan

2. Aphra Behn

3. Daniel Defoe

4. Samuel Richardson

The Eighteenth Century

5. Henry Fielding

6. Samuel Johnson

7. John Cleland

8. Laurence Sterne

9. Oliver Goldsmith

10. Robert Bage

11. Olaudah Equiano

12. Fanny Burney

13. Susanna Haswell

14. Mrs Radcliffe

15. James Hogg

16. Charles Brockden Brown

17. Walter Scott

18. Jane Austen

19. M. G. Lewis

20. Mrs Frances Trollope

21. Thomas De Quincey

22. James Fenimore Cooper

23. John Polidori

24. Mary Shelley

25. Mrs Catherine Gore

The Nineteenth Century

26. Harriet Martineau

27. The Bulwer-Lyttons: Edward and Rosina

28. Benjamin Disraeli

29. Nathaniel Hawthorne

30. Harrison Ainsworth

31. Charles (James) Lever

32. J. H. Ingraham

33.
Postscript:
Prentiss Ingraham

34. Edgar Allan Poe

35. Mrs Gaskell

36. Fanny Fern

37. William Makepeace Thackeray

38. Charles Dickens

39. Mrs Henry Wood

40. Anthony Trollope

41. Grace Aguilar

42. The Brontës: Patrick, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, Anne

43. Maria Monk

44. George Eliot

45.
Postscript:
G. H. Lewes

46. Herman Melville

47. Mrs E. D. E. N. Southworth

48. Eliza Lynn Linton

49.
Postscript:
Beatrice Harraden

50. Sylvanus Cobb Jr

51. Charlotte Yonge

52. Wilkie Collins

53. R. M. Ballantyne

54. Mary J. Holmes

55. Dinah Craik

56. George Meredith

57. Mrs Oliphant

58. Horatio Alger Jr

59. George du Maurier

60.
Postscript:
Daphne du Maurier

61. Frank R. Stockton

62. ‘Walter’

63. Mrs Mary Braddon

64. Samuel Butler

65. Mark Twain

66. B. L. Farjeon

67. Ouida

68. Thomas Hardy

69. Ambrose Bierce

70. Lewis Wingfield

71. Henry James

72. Bram Stoker

73. Grant Allen

74. Richard Jefferies

75. Robert Louis Stevenson

76. Mrs Humphry Ward

77. Hall Caine

78. Sarah Grand

79. Marie Corelli

80. Lady Florence Dixie

81. Olive Schreiner

82. William Sharp

83. L. Frank Baum

84. H. Rider Haggard

85. Joseph Conrad

86. Ella Hepworth Dixon

87. Mary Cholmondeley

88. Arthur Conan Doyle

89.
Postscript:
John (Edmund) Gardner

90. Frank Danby

91. George Egerton

92. Kenneth Grahame

93. J. M. Barrie

94. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

95.
Postscript:
S. Weir Mitchell

96. Amanda Ros

97. Owen Wister

98. Amy Levy

99. Florence L. Barclay

100. O. Henry

101. Violet Hunt

102. Edith Wharton

103. W. J. Locke

104. Thomas Dixon

105. Israel Zangwill

106. M. P. Shiel

107. H. G. Wells

108. Arnold Bennett

109. John Oliver Hobbes

110. Norman Douglas

111. Booth Tarkington

112. Erskine Childers

113. Saki

114. B. M. Bower

115. Stephen Crane

116. Theodore Dreiser

117. Zane Grey

118. W. Somerset Maugham

119. John Buchan

120. Edgar Rice Burroughs

121. Sabatini

122. Edgar Wallace

123. Jack London

124. Rex Beach

125. Warwick Deeping

126. Jeffery Farnol

127. E. M. Forster

128. Mazo de la Roche

129. Daisy Ashford

130. Mary Webb

131. James Joyce

132. Virginia Woolf

133. Sax Rohmer

134. Edna Ferber

135. DuBose Heyward

136. D. H. Lawrence

137. H. Bedford-Jones

138. Vicki Baum

139. Raymond Chandler

140. Katherine Mansfield

141. Michael Sadleir

142. Sapper

143. Hervey Allen

144. Enid Bagnold

145. Erle Stanley Gardner

146. Agatha Christie

147. Richmal Crompton

148. Richard Aldington

149. Djuna Barnes

150. Max Brand

151. Pearl S. Buck

152. James M. Cain

153. Captain W. E. Johns

154. Phyllis Bentley

155. Dashiell Hammett

156.
Postscript:
Lillian Hellman

157. Aldous Huxley

158. J. B. Priestley

159. Henry Williamson

160. Louis Bromfield

161. Peter Cheyney

162. Scott (and Zelda) Fitzgerald

163. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway

164. William Faulkner

165. Dennis Wheatley

166. Elizabeth Bowen

167. Vladimir Nabokov

The Twentieth Century

168. Margaret Mitchell

169. Lewis Grassic Gibbon

170. Georgette Heyer

171. John Steinbeck

172.
Postscript:
John Hersey, John O’Hara

173. George Orwell

174. Evelyn Waugh

175.
Postscript:
Alec Waugh

176. Nathanael West

177. Margery Allingham

178. Graham Greene

179. Patrick Hamilton

180. Christopher Isherwood

181. Henry Green

182. Arthur Koestler

183. Anthony Powell

184. Ayn Rand

185. C. P. Snow

186. Rex Warner

187. Samuel Beckett

188. John Dickson Carr

189. Catherine Cookson

190. Robert E. Howard

191. Jim Thompson

192. Leslie Charteris

193. James A. Michener

194. John Creasey

195. Ian Fleming

196. Louis L’Amour

197. Eric Ambler

198. Chester Himes

199. Malcolm Lowry

200.
Postscript:
Charles R. Jackson

201. Nicholas Monsarrat

202. William Golding

203. John Cheever

204. Lawrence Durrell

205. Patrick White

206. Howard Fast

207. Saul Bellow

208. Herman Wouk

209. Harold Robbins

210. Anthony Burgess

211. Arthur C. Clarke

212. Muriel Spark

213. Mickey Spillane

214.
Postscript:
Carroll John Daly

215. Jacqueline Susann

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