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Literary responses | Ouida | Writing in the year of its publication, Max Beerbohm
argued that the reason for the unusually cordial reception Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Gale Research. 43: 361 |
Literary responses | Ouida | In An Appreciation of Ouida, Street
singled out for praise her genuine and passionate love of beauty . . . and a genuine and passionate hatred of injustice and oppression. Although he noted that... |
politics | Christabel Pankhurst | But word about their plan got out. Summoned to appear before the authorities, they turned themselves in at precisely the moment that the protest was to start. Other suffragettes duly demonstrated in their absence. The... |
Literary responses | George Paston | At the time Max Beerbohm
praised the play in the Saturday Review for its unfeminine willingness to tackle a large subject in serious spirit. Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press. 163-4 |
Textual Features | Christina Rossetti | Among the other poems were a number that dealt with illicit sexuality. Cousin Kate uses ballad metre to explore the sexual double standard and lack of female solidarity. The speaker, a humble cottager seduced by... |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | ES
wrote later that at no time in her life did she make intimate friends easily. Most people she had to do with she liked up to a certain point only, but she could count... |
Friends, Associates | Constance Smedley | In Birmingham CS
had become friendly with Coulson Kernahan
, through whom she also met Flora Klickmann
. Edgar Pemberton
brought her acquainted with theatrical figures she deeply admired: Sir Charles Wyndham
, and Mary Moore |
Intertextuality and Influence | Muriel Spark | The story takes place at Geneva in Switzerland (transferred from the Italian scene of the real-llife original), on an estate owned by a Baron Klopstock, among characters of diverse national origins. The protagonist, Lister the... |
Textual Features | Muriel Spark | This novel, another treatment of suffering which looks back to the book of Job, Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 514 |
Friends, Associates | G. B. Stern | Other plums were Max Beerbohm
, H. G. Wells
, Somerset Maugham
, J. B. Priestley
, and Humbert Wolfe
. Questioned by a reporter about the reason for the party, GBS
suggested that she... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | G. B. Stern | She begins by quoting in its entirety Robert Browning
's poem entitled Memorabilia, which as she observes is better known by its opening line, Ah, did you once see Shelley
plain? Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery. prelims |
Textual Production | G. B. Stern | GBS
often broadcast on the BBC
. She reviewed books, and later remembered an encounter with an old typescript of a review of A. E. Gallatin
's Sir Max Beerbohm
—Bibliographical Notes, 1944, during... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Tree | Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm
was IT
's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote... |
Textual Production | Iris Tree | IT
contributed a short memoir on her father to Max Beerbohm
's biography of him, Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | The writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm
was VT
's uncle. A son of her grandfather's second marriage, he retained the original surname. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm... |
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