Samuel Butler

01 January 1835 - 01 January 1902

Standard Name: Butler, Samuel,, 1835 - 1902

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Education	Maya Angelou	Marguerite Johnson had already become a voracious reader, both of Black writers and of canonical dead white males. Shakespeare , she wrote later, was my first white love. Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Heinemann New Windmill Series. 12 She also enjoyed and respected...
Intertextuality and Influence	Ivy Compton-Burnett	ICB read Samuel Butler 's Note-Books, making marginal notes: Butler radically influenced her thinking about the tyrannical and claustrophobic aspects of family life. Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research. 27
Literary responses	Evelyn Sharp	Henry Nevinson , however, judged this to be Sharp's greatest book, worthy of comparison with Swift 's Gulliver's Travels or Samuel Butler 's Erewhon. Harold Laski , too, admired it. John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press. 122, 126
Textual Production	May Sinclair	MS published A Defence of Idealism, in which she regretted having to refute those whose work she greatly admired: Samuel Butler , Henri Bergson , William James , Bertrand Russell , and others. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 112, 258

Samuel Butler anonymously published, at his own expense, his satiricalnovelErewhon.

Samuel Butler published The Authoress of the Odyssey, a bookcalculated to offend the entire establishment

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

of imperial Britain with its claim that the second great character-building Greek epic had been written by a woman.

Samuel Butler 's autobiographicalnovelThe Way of All Flesh was posthumously published.

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