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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | John Oliver Hobbes | She writes that the passion for Wagner
among the precious and intellectually snobbish is dying out; he is less fashionable now, while Bayreuth is developing a populist, carnival aspect. Wagner snobs, she says, have been... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Bryony Lavery | Zulu compresses into short compass the events of imperial expansion leading up to the legendary British-Zulu battle at Rorke's Drift in January 1879, and Götterdämmerung encapsulates in one hour and seventeen minutes the plot of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Edith Sitwell | |
Textual Production | Willa Cather | In April 1925 WC
formulated her own very high opinion of Wagner
's operas in her preface to Gertrude Hall
's The Wagnerian Romances (which she had first read in the blue air of New Mexico). Cather, Willa. On Writing. Editor Tennant, Stephen, Alfred A. Knopf. 66 |
Textual Production | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
's prose works included a discursive and elusive autobiography, and a biography: Sir George Goldie
, Founder of Nigeria, A Memoir. This was, she said, a record of her conversations with Goldie... |
Textual Production | Romer Wilson | |
Textual Features | Romer Wilson | RW
establishes here two of her favourite themes: the artistic mind and the process of creation. Martin, a German composer who thinks of himself as a genius, aspires to greatness and admires Wagner
. He... |
Textual Features | Henry Handel Richardson | HHR
was deeply interested in the motivations of three people: Cosima
(whom she sees as denied an outlet, by her gender, for her great natural gifts), her first husband (the all-round musician Hans von Bülow |
Reception | Gertrude Stein | Alfred Stieglitz
, the editor of Camera Work, wrote to tell GS
: You have undoubtedly succeeded in expressing Matisse and Picasso in words. Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday. 72 |
Publishing | John Oliver Hobbes | The Times carried an article by JOH
, Notes on the Last Cycle at Bayreuth: a review not only of Wagner
's operatic oeuvre, but of Wagnerism as a phenomenon. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (4 September 1899): 6 |
Occupation | Charles Baudelaire | Remembered largely for his poetry, whose early publication provoked a major crisis in censorship, CB
also wrote important prose, especially criticism, and translated Edgar Allan Poe
's stories into French. As a literary and art... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Henry Handel Richardson | |
Leisure and Society | Mary Agnes Hamilton | With all her busy political life and high level of publication, MAH
managed to make room for life's pleasures. She mentions particularly friendship, travel, books and music: till about 1934 she was an impassioned Wagnerian |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Russell Mitford | Macready
praised the play, but then undermined the value of his own praise, calling it a wonderful tragedy—an extraordinary tragedy for a woman to have written. Pigrome, Stella. “Mary Russell Mitford”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Vol. 66 , Charles Lamb Society, pp. 53-62. 57 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth von Arnim | Henning, a recent widower fifteen years older than his bride, was the only son of Graf Harry Kurt Edward von Arnim, a German ambassador who had been exiled from Germany by Bismarck
because of political... |
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