John Richetti - The Columbia History of the British Novel

Williamson, Henry, 63

Wilson, Angus, 748, 895 — 98; AngloSaxon Attitudes, 913, 917, 1014; As If By Magic, 914, 1014; on Bloomsbury Group, 911 — 12; Émile Zola, 911; Hemlock and After , 913, 1014; Late Call , 914, 1014; The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot, 913, 1014; narrative styles of, 912 — 15; No Laughing Matter , 914, 1014; The Old Men at the Zoo, 913- 14, 1014; Setting the World on Fire , 1014; on social novel, 915 — 16; The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling, 911; themes of, 913 -15; Those Darling Dodos, 912; The World of Charles Dickens , 911; The Wrong Set, 912

Wilson, Edmund, 605, 631, 899

Winterston, Jeanette: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit , 983 — 84

Wissenfarth, Joseph, 244

Witches and witchcraft, 317, 322 — 24

Wodehouse, P. G., 878

Wolfenden Commission, 913

Wolff, Cynthia Griffin, 228

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 17, 210, 218, 264, 294, 332, 337, 342, 346, 349 — 50, 999, 1001, 1009 — 10; Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman , 248, 255, 258 — 60, 265, 331; Mary, 252, 1015; sensibility in works of, 258- 59; Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, 1014; A Vindication of the Rights of Men, 1015; Vindication of the Rights Woman, 251, 258, 331, 334, 336, 1015; The Wrongs of Woman , see above: Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman

Woman (magazine), 660, 991

Woman in White, The, 368

Women, 59, 74, 112 — 13, 195, 434, 614, 693, 790, 815, 950, 999; in Brontë's works, 363 — 65, 372 — 73; competition among, 960 -65; in Dickens's works, 392 — 94; emotions of, 250, 259, 791 — 93; equality of, 254 — 55, 339 — 40; in Gaskell's works, 525 — 27; as Gothic novel writers, 224 -32; identities of, 208 -15, 494 — 95; Lawrence's views of, 718 — 20; and magic, 322- 23; nature of, 60–61; novel reading by, 2–3, 62–63; as novel writers, xvi, 199–201, 203 — 7, 215 — 18, 327 — 29; role of, 178, 371 -73; romance and, 202 -3; and sensation novels, 496 -98, 501; sexuality of, 54–59, 176 — 77, 202, 205, 218, 721 -23; social agendas of, 330 — 31; in society, 354 -55, 366 — 67; solitary, 955 -60; victimization of, 52, 223, 225, 231 -32, 265- 66

Wood, Anthony U+00EO, 949

Wood, Mrs. Henry, 480, 496; East Lynne, 494

Woolf, Leonard, 1015

Woolf, Virginia Stephen, xix, 199, 352, 365, 470, 582, 587, 659, 715, 732, 749, 829, 844, 898, 915, 918, 941; Amis on, 902 -3; Between the Acts, 796, 814 -17, 912, 1015; "The Captain's Death Bed," 572; character development by, 796–817; on family life, 794 — 96, 807 — 8; Jacob's Room, 789, 797–801, 806, 1015; "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown," 686; Mrs. Dalloway, 686, 789, 800–806, 813, 905, 912, 955, 1015; Night and Day, 789, 1015; Orlando, 789- 90, 1015;

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Woolf, Virginia Stephen (continued) The Pargiters, 790 — 91, 793 — 94, 797, 912; perspectives in work of, 789 — 90; rejection of, 895 — 96; A Room of One's Own, 660, 790 -91, 1015; Snow on, 904, 906; on society and individual, 790- 92; Three Guineas, 744, 790, 797, 1015; To the Lighthouse, 686, 789, 797, 805 — 9, 814, 927, 955, 1015; The Voyage Out, 789 -90, 1015; The Waves, 743, 789, 794, 810 — 14, 912, 1015; Wilson on, 911 — 12; on women, 793 -94, 814, 955; The Years, 744, 789 -96, 803, 814, 1015

Wordsworth, William, 342 — 44, 439; on children, 582, 592 — 93

Work, James, 172

Work: women's, 206, 209 — 10

Working class, 411, 510, 521 — 22, 718, 726, 999; identity of, 387 — 88; 611 -12; political causes, 383 — 84; as theme, 613 -14, 617, 623 — 24

World War I, 561, 642, 794; impacts of, xi — xii, 677, 740, 757 — 61, 796, 839, 867 — 68, 920 -22; as theme, 797- 98

World War II, 740- 41, 796- 97, 847, 943 -44; as setting, 875, 886 — 87, 941

Wren, Christopher, 870

Wyllie, John, 904

Yeats, William Butler, 577

Young, Edward: Conjectures on Original Composition, 87

Zola, Émile, 611, 616; L'Argent, 609; Au bonheur des dames, 613; Germinal, 609, 613; influence of, 612 — 15, 618; Nana, 627 — 28; L'Oeuvre, 609; La roman expérimental, 609; RougonMacquart novels, 609 -10, 628; La terre, 609; Thérèse Raquin, 613

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