Criticism and Biographies
There are six main published studies. These are:
Religion and Art of William Hale White
Wilfred H. Stone
AMS Press, New York, 1954
Mark
Rutherford: A Biography of William Hale White
Catherine Macdonald Maclean
MacDonald, London, 1955
Review by Philip
Toynbee, 1955
William Hale White (Mark Rutherford): A Critical Study
Irvin Stock
George Allen and Unwin, London, 1956
Review in Times Literary
Supplement, June 8th, 1955
Mark
Rutherford (William Hale White)
Stephen Merton
Twayne Publishers, New York, 1967
Mark
Rutherford: The Mind and Art of William Hale White
Catherine R. Harland
Ohio State University Press, Columbus, 1988
Bedfords Victorian Pilgrim: William Hale White in context
Michael A. Brealey
Authentic Publishing, 2012
Books with Substantial References to Mark Rutherford
There are other books with substantial references to Mark
Rutherford:
Memories of Mark Rutherford
William Robertson Nicoll
T Fisher Unwin, London, 1924.
Essays taken from "A Bookman's Letters". Discusses WHW's
meetings with and views on contemporary politicians such
as Gladstone and Disraeli, his early life, and
speculations on his "spiritual history". "Mark
Rutherford's style had not much colour, and no apparent
elaboration; but his words perfectly fitted his thought."
More
Nineteenth Century Studies: A Group of Honest Doubters
Basil Willey
(Chapter V is Mark Rutherford)
Columbia University Press, New York, 1956
Some
Late Victorian Attitudes, p 90-123
David Daiches
Andre Deutsch, 1967(?)
Everywhere Spoken Against, Chapter X
Valentine Cunningham
Oxford University Press, 1975
The
Literature of Change
John Lucas
Harvester, 1977
Mortal Pages, Literary Lives: Studies in
Nineteenth-Century Autobiography, ed. Vincent Newey and
Philip Shaw, pp. 172-203
Vincent Newey
Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996
University Theses
These include:
William Hale White (Mark Rutherford)
Hans Klinke
University of Frankfurt PhD thesis, 1930. See article
by Nicholas Jacobs
William Hale White
John Ernest Thorrington Wright
University of Pittsburgh PhD thesis, Pittsburgh, 1932
(The copy in Bedford Public Library has annotations by
William Hale-White.)
The
life and thought of William Hale White
Henry Arthur Smith
University of Birmingham PhD thesis, 1938
This can be accessed via EThOS
William Hale White (Mark Rutherford) and The Problem of
Self-Adjustment in a World of Changing Values
Ursula Clare Buchmann
University of Zurich thesis, 1950
History Politics and Women: A Contextual Analysis of the
writings of William Hale White
Sally Ledger
University of Oxford PhD thesis, 1990
An
Awkward Rectitude: The Evolution of Hale White's Fiction
Lorraine Davies
University of Liverpool PhD thesis, 1994
Before Mark Rutherford: The Translations, Journalism and
Essays of William Hale White. (There is also a
supplementary chapter - Art and Culture.)
Mark Crees
University of Liverpool PhD thesis, 1999
Bunyan Studies
A special issue of Bunyan Studies was devoted to Mark
Rutherford in 2013 (Number 17)
The contents are:
Introduction: William Hale White, Nonconformist and
Novelist
W. R. Owens
Mark Rutherford and the Plight of the Dissenting Aesthete
Valentine Cunningham
The Revolution in Tanner’s Lane: The Honesty of Dissent in
Politics, Religion
and the Family
Roger Pooley
A Mysterious Self-Portrait
Max Saunders
William Hale White and Literary Interpretation
Catherine R. Harland
Centring Bunyan: Macaulay, Froude, Hale White
Vincent Newey
William Hale White as a Religious Agnostic
Jean-Michel Yvard
Notes on Two European Scholars of William Hale White: Hans
Klinke and Ursula Buchmann
Nicholas Jacobs
An Early Scholar of William Hale White: Henry Arthur Smith
(1914–1969)
Michael Brealey
A Moment More: Beside Mark Rutherford’s Grave
Mark Crees
Reviews
Michael Brealey, Bedford’s Victorian Pilgrim: William Hale
White in Context
David Bebbington
(Copies of this special number are available at £12
(including postage), and may be obtained by writing to
Professor David Walker, enclosing a cheque for £12 made
payable to ‘Northumbria University’. His address is:
Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design, and
Social Sciences, Northumbria University, Lipman Building,
Sandyford Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST.
Alternatively, payment may be made online)
Other References
Other references to Mark Rutherford appear in the
following books. Many thanks to Nick Jacobs for much of
this information.
The
Novels of Mark Rutherford (in Essays and Studies by
Members of the English Association)
A.E. Taylor
1914
The
Unbelievers: English Agnostic Thought 1840-1890
A.O.J. Cockshut
Collins, London, 1964, pp. 136-142.
The
March of Literature
Ford Madox Ford
Allen & Unwin/Readers Union, London, 1947, p. 720
Search Your Soul, Eustace
Margaret Maison
1961
A
Gathered Church: The Literature of the English Dissenting
Interest, 1700-1930
Donald Davie
Routledge & Kegan Paul, London and Henley, 1976
The
Novel and the People
Ralph Fox
Lawrence and Wishart, London
The
Correspondence of Andre Gide and Edmund Gosse, 1904-1928
Linette F. Brugmans (trans)
Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, 1977, pp. 123-129.
A London Bookman
Frank Swinnerton
Martin Secker, London, 1928, pp. 99-104
Half-Hours in a Library
George Jackson
The Epworth Press, London, pp. 137-158
George Eliot: The Emergent
Self
Ruby V. Redinger
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1975, pp. 216-220
Charles Swann
The late Charles Swann wrote various articles
about Mark Rutherford.
The Gale Literature Resource
The Gale
Literature Resource is a private online resource
that is accessible through some public libraries. It has
the following articles:
William Hale White
Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2001.
William Hale White
Catherine Harland
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 18: Victorian
Novelists After 1885. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited
by Ira B. Nadel, University of British Columbia and
William E. Fredeman, University of British Columbia. The
Gale Group, 1983, pp. 258-270.
Review of the Autobiography of Mark Rutherford,
Dissenting Minister
The Athenaeum, No. 2791, April 23, 1881, p.555
Review of the Autobiography of Mark Rutherford
William Dean Howells
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. LXXII, No. CCCCXXIX,
February 1886, pp. 485-486
Review of Catharine Furze
The Spectator, Vol. 72, No. 3442, June 16, 1894, pp.
830-831
Review of Clara Hopgood
The Athenaeum, No. 3590, August 15, 1896, p.220.
The
Art of Mark Rutherford
The Academy, Vol. CVI, No. 1396, February 4, 1899, pp.
161-62.
Religion
in Fiction in The Makers of English Fiction
W. J. Dawson
Fleming H. Revell Company, 1905, pp. 268-89.
Pages
from a Journal, with Other Papers and More Pages
from a Journal, with Other Papers
H. N. MacCracken
The Yale Review, n.s. Vol. III, No. 1, October, 1913, pp.
189-94
(The above eight reviews were all reprinted in
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 25)
See Praise for Mark
Rutherford for more references.
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