Explore "Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign" by Edna Lyall on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
In the small circle of women writers who shed literary lustre on the early years of her present Majesty's reign was Dinah Mulock, best known to the present novel-reading generation as the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman."
To appreciate fully the position that we claim for her, it will be necessary to turn back to the period when she began to write, and see who were her contemporaries.