Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
320
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Reception | Vernon Lee | This book lost Lee the friendship of others who had admired her Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy. Broken friendships included those with Oscar Wilde
(refigured as the character Posthlethwaite), Jane
and William Morris |
Publishing | Edna St Vincent Millay | In 1924 Frederic
and Bertha Goudy
printed a limited edition of the title-poem Renascence at their Village Press
, using the very hand press that William Morris
had used for the Kelmscott Chaucer
. Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House. 320 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | JFLW
received £25 for the rights from William Morris
, and in December 1893 he signed one of three hundred copies from the new illustrated edition published by Kelmscott Press
. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray. 256 |
politics | Annie Besant | She was one of the key figures urging the protest to go ahead despite the order against public processions. It took place on 13 November. When the protesters arrived at Trafalgar Square, they faced... |
Occupation | Sylvia Pankhurst | SP
made very little money from artistic commissions, but devoted her talents in visual art to the Women's Social and Political Union
. She designed the cover of Votes for Women. Other artistic contributions... |
Occupation | Walter Pater | While at Brasenose
, he wrote three anonymous essays for the Westminster Review: Coleridge
's Writings, Winckelmann, and The Poetry of William Morris. All three were attacked, says scholar Laurel Brake |
Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | CR
's critical reputation stood very high from the appearance of Goblin Market, although she was not a popular poet. H. Buxton Forman
in Our Living Poets, 1871, got her middle name wrong... |
Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Elliot | In 1880 Theodore Watts
described this volume as unequal, and noted that the poet was later inclined to disparage her initial publication. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2726 (1880): 124 |
Literary responses | Charlotte Maria Tucker | The Athenæum proclaimed, a more entertaining and salutary story for merry, scatter-brained, careless children has rarely been put on paper. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1843 (1863): 261 |
Leisure and Society | L. T. Meade | These tastes leaned to the pre-Raphaelite, with Morris
hangings and photogravures after Burne-Jones
and Watts
. Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode. 222, 228 Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode. 223 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Bruce Glasier | The title page of the pamphlet references works by both William Morris
and Walt Whitman
, while the text itself paraphrases Edward Carpenter
. Glasier, Katharine Bruce, and John Bruce Glasier. The Religion of Socialism: Two Aspects. Labour Press Society Limited;Labour Literature Society. title page, 1 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothy Whipple | This novel's opening is a prime example of DW
's skill at hooking her readers. She opens with the ancient gateway of the house standing in darkness, illuminated every few minutes by the flash of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Yonge | This was one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century. Two years after it appeared it was the favourite choice of young officers in hospital during the Crimean War. A guardsman confessed that... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Margaret Sackville | LMS
's earliest works, which emerged from a romantic sense of beauty, defined her for decades of readers. In the first phase of her writing career, from 1900 to about 1915, she sought the delicate... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Constance Smedley | Jessica and her younger brother, Edgar, both respond with ecstasy to an offer to borrow books they have not already read (William Morris
, William Blake
, [a]nd people I don't know; and books... |
No bibliographical results available.