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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Charlotte Yonge | During her lifetime CY
was ranked as a serious novelist with Austen
, Trollope
, Balzac
, and Zola
. Contemporaries like Louisa Alcott
, Margaret Oliphant
, Ellen Wood
, and Rhoda Broughton
made... |
Literary responses | Melesina Trench | Before publishing MT
's private writings, her son showed them to Edward FitzGerald
. Fitzgerald responded positively, judging them the equal of published letters by the writers Horace Walpole
and Robert Southey
. He showed... |
Friends, Associates | William Makepeace Thackeray | Despite his lack of scholastic success WMT
was popular socially, and his wide circle of friends at Cambridge included Alfred Tennyson
, Edward FitzGerald
, and John Allen
. His brief time at university
also... |
Friends, Associates | Alfred Tennyson | A sociable man (although distrustful of unknown admirers) Tennyson was acquainted with many of the major artistic and political figures of the nineteenth century, including Edward FitzGerald
, Coventry Patmore
, Edward Lear
, William Ewart Gladstone |
Education | Freya Stark | Family friends sympathetic to Freya's feelings of entrapment at Dronero sent her gifts of books: she was especially passionate about Shakespeare
, Sir Walter Scott
, Byron
, Keats
, Kipling
, Shelley
, Wordsworth |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Sitwell | ES
loved Christina Rossetti
from her childhood, and later thoroughly admired Gertrude Stein
. As a young woman, however, she believed: Women's poetry, with the exception of Sappho
. . . and Goblin MarketChristina Rossetti
and... |
Wealth and Poverty | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Despite the considerable earnings from her writings, her inheritance from her father, and a legacy for £500 from Edward FitzGeraldfor love of her father, Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 193 |
Textual Production | Henry Handel Richardson | HHR
's autobiography, Myself When Young (titled from Edward FitzGerald
's Rubàiyàt of Omar Khayyàm), appeared posthumously in print, as completed after her death by Olga Roncoroni
. Bowen, Elizabeth. “The Evolution of a Novelist”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2424, p. 395. 395 |
Textual Production | Sarojini Naidu | The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death and the Spring, another volume of poems by SN
, was published by William Heinemann
in London and John Lane
in New York. The dedication... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarojini Naidu | The title is taken from words spoken to Naidu by Indian national leader G. K. Gokhale
: Why should a song-bird like you have a broken wing? Naidu, Sarojini. The Broken Wing. William Heinemann; John Lane. 3 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lucas Malet | The epigraph, from FitzGerald
's Omar Khayyam, says that human beings are nothing but God's chess-pieces, or shadows cast by his lantern. The story is narrated by one man to another: by Anthony Hammond... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lucy Knox | Her father, the Hon. Stephen Edmond Spring Rice
, forged lifelong friendships with Alfred Tennyson
, Thomas Carlyle
, and Edward FitzGerald
during his years at Bury St Edmunds Grammar School
and Trinity College, Cambridge |
Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Kemble | According to her sister Adelaide, she had another fervent admirer in the poet Edward FitzGerald
. Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From Friend to Friend. Editor Ritchie, Emily, John Murray. 69 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Agnes Hamilton | She was inspired to write it by a hatred of war, which was encouraged by political activists including such women as Vernon Lee
and Lady Ottoline Morrell
. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 72-4 |
Friends, Associates | Violet Fane | Her father had literary friends, and among them introduced her to Edward Bulwer-Lytton
(probably the father rather than the son
), Edward FitzGerald
, and George Borrow
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |