Max Beerbohm

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Standard Name: Beerbohm, Max

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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
qtd. in
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Gale Research, 1978–2025, Numerous volumes.
43: 361
accorded this novel was not (as Ouida's newly warm critics had suggested) that she had...
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.
qtd. in
Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
163-4
On the other hand the writer of GP 's obituary...
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...
Literary responses Madeleine Lucette Ryley
Critics found Mrs. Grundy quite boring. Max Beerbohm said in the Saturday Review that most of the characters were conventional stage daubs. The Athenæum maintained that the writing was not the problem, but blamed the...
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, 2009.
514
begins when a film director, Tom Richards, falls from a crane on a film set and is taken to...
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?
qtd. in
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery, 1958.
prelims
She approaches...
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...
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...
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...
Textual Production Viola Tree
Michael Burn wrote an introduction for this book, and VT 's half-uncle Max Beerbohm wrote a letter which served as prefatory material. The book draws on a scrapbook or commonplace-book kept by Parsons: hence its...

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