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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Birth | Anna Livia | Her parents named her after Anna Livia Plurabelle of Joyce
's Finnegans Wake, and after Julian of Norwich
, medieval anchoress and author of Revelations of Divine Love. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Cultural formation | Mary Ann Kelty | MAK
thought that the existential angst she suffered during her childhood was unique until she read Margaret Fuller
's Memoirs. Kelty, Mary Ann. Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling. W. Pickering, 1852. 134 |
Cultural formation | Margery Kempe | At about forty, soon after her meeting with Julian
, MK
came to crisis point in a long-term spiritual struggle. Kempe, Margery. The Book of Margery Kempe. Windeatt, Barry A.Translator , Penguin, 1994. 58, 305n1 |
Education | Iris Murdoch | During this very important year of my life Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002. 262 Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002. 263 |
Education | Michèle Roberts | She chose the medieval option. Her tutor was Rosemary Woolf
, and she studied no authors later than Shakespeare
. She reports the results of this in two different ways. In one version the course... |
Friends, Associates | Margery Kempe | MK
made the brief journey to Norwich to seek spiritual advice from the anchoress Julian
. This consultation brought together the two most significant women writers of the age. Kempe, Margery. The Book of Margery Kempe. Windeatt, Barry A.Translator , Penguin, 1994. 78 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Kathleen Jamie | Julian of Norwich voices a sense of enclosure, frustration, praying in vain; but the final stanza (beginning And yet, and yet) Jamie, Kathleen, and Lilias Fraser. Mr. and Mrs. Scotland are Dead. Bloodaxe Books, 2002. 50 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ferrar | The hold exerted on T. S. Eliot
's imagination by Little Gidding seems to have been produced by the idea of the community, not by their texts. His poem Little Gidding gives little hint that... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Monica Furlong | The Times Literary Supplement reviewer noted in Travelling In a host of quotations from old and new sources: from studies in Zen Buddhism
, the Tao te Ching, the Theologica Germanica, and Julian of Norwich |
Intertextuality and Influence | Monica Furlong | Many of these poems trace patterns in their author's life; others engage with Christian women of earlier times. MF
asks of Julian of Norwich
: Be with us still, who bear our cells so badly... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | This moving and closely observed novel presents IM
's hallmark unforgettable moments: Dora rescuing a butterfly from the floor of a railway carriage, or flinging herself repeatedly against the lost medieval bell (now surreptitiously raised... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maggie Gee | The comic, biting satire of the early chapters modulates into a thriller or adventure story as Vanessa pursues her dream of a safari among gorillas close to the dangerous Congo border. (Modern communications dominate this... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sue Townsend | ST
said the book was based partly on fantasies of withdrawal (possibly through a prison sentence) that she used to entertain as a single mother of small children, partly on the idea of Julian of Norwich |
Intertextuality and Influence | Evelyn Underhill | Mysticism aims at nothing less than providing a comprehensive description, a philosophical analysis, and also . . . a justification of these experiences, regardless of the specific cultural and historical moments in which they occur... |
Reception | Lady Lucy Herbert | Dorothy L Latz
, observing how LLH
attributes maternal love to God (he is not content to call himself and to be our Father, but because a Mother's love is more tender, he compares... |