Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday.
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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 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... |
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... |
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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Edith Sitwell | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Henry Handel Richardson | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Henry Handel Richardson | A closer friendship formed in Leipzig was that with a young Scotsman, George Robertson
, who was studying for a PhD in German literature. He reawakened Richardson's interest in books and writing, particularly when she... |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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 |
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... |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | EBO
loved her landowner father, Baron Bódog Orczy
(who regularly used the Latin and therefore international form of his given, Hungarian name: Felix), Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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