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Textual Features | Florence Farr | The text addresses a number of issues affecting women, including suffrage, inadequate incomes, divorce legislation, and attitudes toward motherhood. Farr's immersion in mysticism and the occult is often evident, as when she advises her women... |
Textual Production | Jane Ellen Harrison | JEH
had been considering Themis since about 1907, when she felt that recent archaeological, sociological, and other developments rendered her Prolegomena somewhat outdated. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 220 |
Textual Production | Vernon Lee | One of her main subjects here is William James
(recently deceased), whose theory of and experiments in pragmatism—particularly his emphasis on the will to believe—Lee disputes in favour of those explored by Charles Sanders Peirce |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Wyndham Lewis | He examines the work of Gertrude Stein
(whom he counsels to get out of english) and popular writer Anita Loos
(Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), as well as Bergson
, Einstein
, Pound
, Joyce
, and others. Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research. 313 |
Friends, Associates | Mina Loy | She and Dodge shared many interests, including Henri Bergson
, whose work they read together. Burke, Carolyn. Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 121-2 |
politics | Dora Marsden | DM
judged The Ego and His Ownthe most powerful book that has ever emerged from a single mind. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 104, 121 |
Textual Features | Dora Marsden | Regarding the influence on each other of Imagism and Marsden's egoism, Andrew Thacker
notes their shared emphases (from Bergson
) on the weaknesses of abstract rhetoric in art and politics, and their valuing of intuition... |
Textual Features | Dora Marsden | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Betty Miller | BM
's mother, Sara (Bergson) Spiro
, a Swede of Polish descent, was related to the influential French philosopher Henri Bergson
. She had been a teacher in Sweden. Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, p. vii - xviii. vii |
Textual Production | Marcel Proust | MP
was tormented by illness throughout his life, forcing him to write at night in bed in notebooks that were then transcribed by typists. Proustian writing is characterized by extended psychological reportage, episodes of involuntary... |
Reception | Dorothy Richardson | DR
's work was also informed by other less-recognized sources, particularly Henry James
's The Ambassadors, 1903. After reading this, she called James's narrative approach the first completely satisfying way of writing a novel... |
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 |
Textual Production | May Sinclair | MS
published A Defence of Idealism, in which she regretted having to refute those whose work she greatly admired: Samuel Butler
, Henri Bergson
, William James
, Bertrand Russell
, and others. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 112, 258 |
Literary responses | Muriel Spark | Graham Greene
offered the same accolade as for her previous novel, recognizing its disappointing reception with: What fools the reviewers have been. Greene, Graham. Graham Greene. A Life in Letters. Editor Greene, Richard, Alfred A. Knopf. 317 |
Education | Evelyn Underhill | She did not take advantage of her opportunity to study theology while at the Anglican foundation of King's, but became interested in religion through reading philsophy and poetry from her father's library. Plotinus
, St Augustine |
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