THE WOMEN NOVELISTS
BY
R. BRIMLEY JOHNSON
AUTHOR OF
“TALES PROM CHAUCER” “TOWARDS RELIGION”
“TENNYSON AND HIS POETRY”
LONDON: 48 PALL MALL
W. COLLINS SONS & CO. LTD.
GLASGOW MELBOURNE AUCKLAND
Copyright 1918
[Pg vii]
I have to thank the editor and publisher ofThe Athenæum for permission to reprint thechapter on “Parallel Passages”; the editorand publisher of The Gownsman for permissionto use “A Study in Fine Art”;Professor Gollancz and Messrs. Chatto &Windus for permission to reprint thesection on “Cranford” which was written foran Introduction to a reprint of that novelin “The King’s Classics.”