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Julia Frankau (née Davis; 30 July 1859 – 17 March 1916) was a successful novelist who wrote under the name Frank Danby. Her first novel was published in 1887: Dr. Phillips: A Maida Vale Idyll. Its portrayal of London Jews and Jewish life, and its depiction of murder by a doctor were controversial.
Using powerful (and often uncomfortable) Juvenalien satire, Frankau rewrites a number of conventions to make plain that the moral degradation represented in social journalism and slum novels that so fascinated the middle classes was present not only in their own back yards, but was fuelled by their own behaviour.
Julia Frankau. 30 July 1859 - 17 March 1916. Standard Name: Frankau, Julia. Birth Name: Julia Davis. Married Name: Julia Frankau. Pseudonym: Frank Danby. JF, whose career spanned the closing years of the nineteenth century and the Edwardian period, produced fifteen novels and four books of art history, three of which take biographical form.
Frankau, Julia (‘Frank Danby’) (1859–1916), art historian and novelist, was born 30 July 1859 in Dublin, into an English Jewish family, seventh among nine children of Hyman Davis (d. 1871), dentist and later artist/photographer, and his wife Isabella.
Later writers, such as Amy Levy and Julia Frankau, created not only works portraying Jews as loyal Englishmen and women worth of equal rights but also satirical novels critical of the Anglo-Jewish community; they were sometimes criticized as adopting the language of Victorian antisemitism.
Julia Frankau, née Julia Davis (il 30 luglio 1859-17 marzo 1916) fu una romanziere di successo che scrisse sotto il nome Frank Danby. Il suo primo romanzo fu pubblicato nel 1887: il dr. Phillips: Un Idillio di Maida Vale .
Abstract. I F THERE IS to be a challenge to the increasingly prevalent impulse to recover Anglo-Jewish texts from the silences of the archives, the challenge will undoubtedly arise in relation to the novels of Julia Frankau. 1 Frankau’s late Victorian novels on Jewish subjects, Dr. Phillips: A Maida Vale Idyll (1887) and Pigs in Clover (1903
