“ His influence on the Scandinavian writers of the ’eighties was very great, but a reaction, headed by Holger Drachmann, against his “realistic” doctrines, began in 1885 (see Denmark: Literature) . In 1900 he collected his works for the first time in a complete and popular edition, and began to superintend a German complete edition in 1902.
His brother Edvard Brandes (b. 1847) , also a well-known critic, was the author of a number of plays, and of two psychological novels: A Politician (1889) , and Young Blood (1899) . ”

“ In 1870 he published several important volumes, The French Aesthetics of Our Days, dealing chiefly with Taine, Criticisms and Portraits, and a translation of The Subjection of Women of John Stuart Mill, whom he had met that year during a visit to England. ”