Robins’s writing on behalf of women’s rights issues in the first quarter of the twentieth century represents an important contribution to feminist politicsFrom Childhood, Elizabeth Robins dreamed of a successful career on the stage. Her first impulse to visit England, in 1888, stemmed from her desire to secure better opportunities as an actress, and she soon gained celebrity playing Ibsen’s heroines. While buoyed by this success, she began writing fiction ...

Through the Gate is a short and simple tale which demonstrates how a life can be changed by one wrong decision. It also chronicles the importance of friendship and bravery in frightening times.

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work.This volume includes her 1872 novel At his Gates with editorial notes by Joanne Wilkes, including a new introduction, headnote an...