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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Julia Ward Howe | JWH
first encountered Higginson
(the friend and correspondent of Emily Dickinson
) at a Boston rally in support of the fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins
. Howe, Julia Ward. Reminiscences, 1819–1899. Houghton Mifflin. 165 |
Reception | Julia Ward Howe | Elaine Showalter
's biography, The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe, 2016, claimed that Howe possessed the subversive intellect of an Emily Dickinson
, the political and philosophical interests of an Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Textual Features | Germaine Greer | Women are a minority here, but well represented: Fleur Adcock
, Anna Letitia Barbauld
, Amy Clampitt
, Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas)
, Emily Dickinson
, Freda Downie
, U. A. Fanthorpe
, Vicki Feaver |
Textual Production | Rumer Godden | Bodley Head
issued RG
's A Letter to the World: poems for young readers: a selection from the work of Emily Dickinson
(a poet she had discovered with, she said, instant recognition). The... |
Leisure and Society | Rumer Godden | Her literary standards of judgement were high. Among women poets she accorded major status only to Sappho
, Christina Rossetti
, Emily Dickinson
—not Elizabeth Barrett Browning
—and to the more recent Edith Sitwell
and Marianne Moore
. Godden, Rumer. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep. Macmillan. 218 and n |
Travel | Rumer Godden | RG
visited the USA so frequently that she felt it was her territory, even before undertaking a coast-to-coast lecture tour. Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan. 221 |
Textual Features | Monica Furlong | The different spiritual traditions represented here include ancient Greeks, medieval Christians, Buddhists, Jews, Australian Aboriginals and Native Americans. The authors of prayers include Teresa of Avila
, Emily Dickinson
, Denise Levertov
, Oodgeroo Noonuccal
, and Alice Walker
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Occupation | Eva Figes | EF
had a long stint as co-editor of this series, which includes works on Margaret Atwood
, Jane Austen
, Elizabeth Bowen
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, Frances Burney
, Willa Cather
, Colette
,... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elaine Feinstein | Lais considers Holbein
's painting of the courtesan of that name, who lived in ancient Corinth: a representation unexpectedly mild and benevolent, of a woman who cannot hide the evidence of grace. Adcock, Fleur, editor. The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Women’s Poetry. Faber and Faber. 228 |
Textual Production | Elaine Feinstein | EF
says her fiction and poetry come from different parts of herself: the voice, the cadences, the rhythms are very different. She sees fiction as involving impersonation of other people. Pacernick, Gary. Meaning and Memory: Interviews with Fourteen Jewish Poets. Ohio State University Press. 180 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margiad Evans | At the end of the 1940s, when she was writing extremely hard, she began work on a book about Emily Brontë
. She abandoned it soon after her first epileptic seizure, feeling that it was... |
Literary responses | George Eliot | Though the reviews were universally laudatory in their general tone, GE
found them disheartening. Edith J. Simcox
, reviewing the book as H. Lawrenny for the Academy in the month following publication, asserted Middlemarch marks... |
Textual Production | Carol Ann Duffy | CAD
has edited two poetry anthologies aimed at teenagers: I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine (1992, with illustrations by Trisha Rafferty
), and Stopping for Death (a title which alludes to Emily Dickinson
)... |
Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Many poems here feature women answering back to canonical male voices: Liz Lochhead
to Donne
, Jenny Joseph
to W. S. Gilbert
, U. A. Fanthorpe
to Walt Whitman
, Wendy Cope
to A. E. Housman |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Drabble | Imagery of postpartum fluidity, particularly lactation, characterizes the lovers' growing passion and the descriptions of female sexual desire and orgasm. The narrative alternates between a schizoid third-person dialogue Drabble, Margaret. The Waterfall. Penguin. 130 |
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