Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Ruth Bernard Yeazell is Chace Family Professor of English at Yale.

In the LRB Archive:

• Oh! – only Oh!: Burne-Jones · 9 February 2012

  • The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthy

• Maisie’s Sisters: Sargent’s Daughters · 5 August 2010

  • Sargent’s Daughters: The Biography of a Painting by Erica Hirshler

• I whine for her like a babe: The Other Alice James · 25 June 2009

  • Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James by Susan Gunter

• Sit like an Apple: Artists’ Wives · 23 October 2008

  • Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model-Wives of Cézanne, Monet and Rodin by Ruth Butler

• Howl, Howl, Howl!: Fanny Kemble · 22 May 2008

  • Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life by Deirdre David

• Self-Made Man: Edith Wharton’s Domestic Arrangements · 5 April 2007

  • Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee

• Ah, la vie!: Lytton Strachey’s letters · 1 December 2005

  • The Letters of Lytton Strachey edited by Paul Levy

• Merry Companies: the Golden Age of Dutch painting · 20 January 2005

  • Dutch 17th-century Genre Painting: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution by Wayne Franits

• Too late to die early: Virginia Woolf and Harriet Martineaun in the sick room · 5 February 2004

  • Life in the Sick-Room by Harriet Martineau, edited by Maria Frawley
  • On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf, edited by Hermione Lee

• Viva la trattoria: Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 9 October 2003

  • Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Her Sister Arabella edited by Scott Lewis

• Overindulgence: A.S. Byatt · 28 November 2002

  • A Whistling Woman by A.S. Byatt

• Deadly Eliza on ‘The Whole Family: A Novel by Twelve Authors’ · 1 November 2001

  • The Whole Family: A Novel by Twelve Authors by William Dean Howells et al
  • Publishing the Family by June Howard

• Is everybody’s life like this?: Amy Levy · 16 November 2000

  • Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters by Linda Hunt Beckman

• ‘I thirst for his blood’: Henry James · 25 November 1999

  • Henry James: A Life in Letters edited by Philip Horne
  • A Private Life of Henry James: Two Women and His Art by Lyndall Gordon

• One of the Pyramids of Egypt: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu · 27 May 1999

  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment by Isobel Grundy

• E Pluribus Unum · 11 December 1997

  • Polygamous Families in Contemporary Society by Irwin Altman and Joseph Ginat

• Glad to Go · 6 March 1997

  • Death in the Victorian Family by Pat Jalland

• The world’s worst-dressed woman · 1 August 1996

  • Queen Victoria’s Secrets by Adrienne Munich

• Doubling the Oliphant · 7 September 1995

  • Mrs Oliphant: ‘A Fiction to Herself’ by Elisabeth Jay

• Ructions in the Seraglio · 8 December 1994

  • The Harem Within: Tales of a Moroccan Girlhood by Fatima Mernissi
  • Ramza by Out el Kouloub, translated by Nayra Atiya

• Her pen made the first move · 7 July 1994

  • Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life by Lyndall Gordon
  • Shared Lives by Lyndall Gordon
  • The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction: The Art of Being Ill by Miriam Bailin

• Vampiric Words · 26 May 1994

  • The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing and Imprisonment by Maud Ellmann

• Collapse of the Sofa Cushions · 24 March 1994

  • Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics by Isobel Armstrong
  • The Woman Reader: 1837-1914 by Kate Flint

• Domestic Disaffection · 10 June 1993

  • Dearest Beloved: The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Family by Walter Herbert

• Allowed to speak · 19 November 1992

  • Sororophobia: Differences Among Women in Literature and Culture by Helena Michie
  • Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic by Elisabeth Bronfen

• Drawing-rooms are always tidy · 20 August 1992

  • The Sexual Education of Edith Wharton by Gloria Erlich

• Mongkut and I · 30 January 1992

  • The Romance of the Harem by Anna Leonowens, edited by Susan Morgan

• Tears before the storm · 24 October 1991

  • The History of Tears: Sensibility and Sentimentality in France by Anne Vincent-Buffault

• A Favourite of the Laws · 13 June 1991

  • Married Women’s Separate Property in England, 1660-1833 by Susan Staves
  • The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship and the Life of the Mind in 18th-century England by Sylvia Harcstark Myers
  • Portrait of a Friendship: Drawn from New Letters of James Russell Lowell to Sybella Lady Lyttleton 1881-1891 by Alethea Hayter
  • Fierce Communion: Family and Community in Early America by Helena Wall

• ‘I can’t go on like this’ · 19 January 1989

  • The Letters of Edith Wharton edited by R.W.B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis
  • Women Artists, Women Exiles: ‘Miss Grief’ and Other Stories by Constance Fenimore Woolson, edited by Joan Myers Weimer

• The Henry James Show · 7 January 1988

  • Henry James: A Life by Leon Edel
  • The Complete Notebooks of Henry James edited by Leon Edel and Lyall Powers

• Domineering · 7 November 1985

  • The Courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett by Daniel Karlin

• In a horizontal posture · 5 July 1984

  • The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford: 1836-1854 edited by Meredith Raymond and Mary Rose Sullivan
  • Love and the Woman Question in Victorian Literature: The Art of Self-Postponement by Kathleen Blake

• Doctors’ Orders · 18 February 1982

  • ‘All that summer she was mad’: Virginia Woolf and Her Doctors by Stephen Trombley

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