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Literary responses | Mary Butts | The Macedonian received extensive reviews in major newspapers like The Observer, the Manchester Guardian, and the Manchester Evening News, and was also discussed in local papers like the Leytonshire Express, the... |
Literary responses | Mary Butts | The novel's success was slightly diminished by comparisons drawn between it and Jack Lindsay
's Last Days With Cleopatra, which appeared just a few weeks before it. Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company. 380 |
Textual Production | Mary Butts | According to Williams
, writing to the Times after her death, MB
was planning another historical novel, this one to deal with the life of the Emperor Julian
, known as Julian the Apostate. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (13 March 1937): 14 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Butts | Butts idealises her childhood home at Salterns on the shores of Poole Harbour as a place of extreme natural beauty that contrasts with the filth of the modern world: Half of Poole Harbour is still... |
Literary responses | Mary Butts | Although her work received mixed reviews, MB
was generally recognized as an important if eccentric literary figure during her lifetime, and she was highly praised by other modernist writers, including Ezra Pound
, Marianne Moore |
Publishing | Gerard Manley Hopkins | Bridges had already been trying the water by introducing a few individual Hopkins poems into anthologies. Only 750 copies of this edition were printed. The British Library
copy contains manuscript notes by C. H. Wilkinson |
Friends, Associates | Florence Marryat | FM
became well known in spiritualist circles and acquainted with all the best mediums. Hill, Georgina O’Brien. “’Above the Breath of Suspicion’: Florence Marryat and the Shadow of the Fraudulent Trance Medium”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 15 , No. 3, pp. 333-47. 334 |
Textual Production | Alice Meynell | As a reviewer, AM
dealt with writing by Samuel Johnson
, Christina Rossetti
, George Eliot
, Emily Brontë
, Dickens
, Robert Browning
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, Jean Ingelow
, Charles Williams
,... |
Publishing | Anne Ridler | AR
produced Notes on the Taliessin Poems of Charles Williams, published at Oxford by the Charles Williams Society
. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Anne Ridler | AR
published her first volume of Poems with Oxford University Press
(thanks, she said, to her uncle Humphrey Milford
and to Charles Williams
). Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, p. 240 pp. 122 Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 80: 358 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Ridler | Anne Bradby (later AR
) was still at school when she first met Charles Williams
, the poet, Christian apologist, novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a friend of her headmistress, and came to lecture... |
Instructor | Anne Ridler | She lived in a King's College hostel in Queensborough Terrace near Hyde Park,London. The course included lectures on history and literature. The distinguished scholar Jack Isaacs
lectured on Shakespeare
, Donne
, and Milton |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Ridler | AR
wrote that the two great influences on her as a poet (because they helped her to find her own voice) were Sir Thomas Wyatt
and W. H. Auden
. Eliot
, too, was inescapable... |
Textual Features | Anne Ridler | Her introduction to the first selection, she said later, was more influenced by Coleridge
than by Charles Williams
. Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, p. 240 pp. 96 |
Textual Production | Anne Ridler | She also sat on the committee which, under Alice Mary Smyth (later Hadfield)
, was at work compiling the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, p. 240 pp. 97 |
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