Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
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Fictionalization | Laura Riding | Critic Jerome McGann
asserts that LR
, while making no claim to transcendent poetic power, makes poetry out of her own power to rise above her subject. In this he associates her with Felicia Hemans |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laura Riding | Her first marriage, on 2 November 1920, while she was still an undergraduate at Cornell, was to historian Louis Gottschalk
(then a graduate student). Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books. 28 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laura Riding | In probably February 1924 LR
began a brief but passionate affair with writer Allen Tate
, whom she called Alastor after Shelley
's poem of that title. After her first marriage ended in divorce, LR |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laura Riding | LR
was now the sexual and intellectual partner of Schuyler Jackson
. Seymour, Miranda. “The Hand from the Grave”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, pp. 191-5. 193 |
Education | Anne Enright | AE
bought her first book at thirteen, with the book-token prize for a schools radio quiz. She looked—very carefully—at every volume on the shelves of a Dublin bookshop before choosingThe Greek Myths by Robert Graves |
Education | Elizabeth Jennings | At university as at school, she was a voracious reader of poetry, feeling the influence in particular of John Donne
, Gerard Manley Hopkins
, and Robert Graves
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. under A Poet's Choice |
Cultural formation | Laura Riding | As an American living in England in 1928 she was said by an American friend, Polly Antell
, to have become very English, Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books. 113 |
Characters | Pat Barker | Barker opens with the text of Finished with the War, A Soldier's Declaration, issued in July 1917 by the writer Siegfried Sassoon
, one of her real-life characters. Barker, Pat. Regeneration. Viking-Penguin. 3, 71 |
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