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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Storm Jameson | Inspired by Balzac
, Jameson planned several novels that would form a contemporary family and political saga. It would be centred mainly on (Mary) Hervey Russell, who, she once wrote, is and is not myself... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Pamela Hansford Johnson | In each novel Toby, who comes from a lower-middle-class South London background and is sharply aware of the utility of women for a handsome young man like himself with the intention of rising in the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lucas Malet | Though ML was familiar with the canonical English Victorian novelists (and, less usually, with Samuel Richardson
's Sir Charles Grandison, to whose great length she alludes with approval), those writers she acknowledged as influences... |
Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | During the same year she worked on translating Balzac
for young English readers, a scheme suggested to her by her discussions with Elizabeth Barrett Browning
about French fiction. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 116: 196 |
Education | Ouida | |
Literary responses | Ouida | The Athenæum criticized this novel for mock eloquence Athenæum. J. Lection. 2016 (16 June 1866): 797 Athenæum. J. Lection. 2016 (16 June 1866): 798 |
Textual Features | Dorothy Richardson | In addition to her chosen themes, DR
also charts the development of female consciousness through her literary techniques, which strongly disrupt gender, generic, and linguistic conventions. In her 1938 foreword to Pilgrimage, she recalls... |
Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich
through Jane Austen
, Emily
and Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot |
politics | George Sand | The meeting of Aurore Dudevant (later GS
) with Sandeau coincided with the end of the Three Glorious Days when Charles X
abdicated, leaving the throne for his nephew Louis Philippe of Orléans
. In... |
Friends, Associates | George Sand | It was while working for the Figaro that she met Honoré de Balzac
and the journalist Henri de Latouche
. Another writer who became a friend and mentor to her was critic Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
. Jack, Belinda. George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large. Vintage. 174-6 Jaeger, Muriel. Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. G. Bell and Sons. 192 |
Literary responses | George Sand | The novel met with high praise from Balzac
, and a critic at the Revue des Deux Mondes thought it better than anything by Germaine de Staël
. These two knew the author's gender, but... |
Fictionalization | George Sand | GS
was portrayed as Mademoiselle de Touches in Balzac
's novel Béatrix, a fictionalized account of the love affair between Franz Liszt
and Marie d'Agoult
. Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger. 170-1 |
Reception | Sappho | This drew on a female type established in the bohemian fiction of Honoré de Balzac
, Eugène Sue
, and others. Daudet's novel was the source of a play by |
Literary responses | Olive Schreiner | The book elicited strong reactions, most of them positive. It was highly praised by Philip Kent
, who wrote a long article about it instead of his usual shorter reviews in Life, a weekly... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Trollope | FT
's political conservatism affected her judgements of literature as well as politics. She forcefully expresses her dislike for republicanism, denounces freedom of the press as the most awful engine that Providence has permitted the... |
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