Roberts, Michèle. In the Red Kitchen. Methuen.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Germaine Greer | GG
has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings
, Jeslyn Medoff
and Melinda Sansone
), Kissing the Rod, has played an... |
Reception | Julia Ward Howe | Elaine Showalter
's biography, The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe, 2016, claimed that Howe possessed the subversive intellect of an Emily Dickinson
, the political and philosophical interests of an Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Literary Setting | Geraldine Jewsbury | During her marriage, Zoe becomes acquainted with a Catholic priest named Everhard Borrows who doubts his faith. They fall in love, and Everhard feels compelled to leave the priesthood for Zoe. One of the novel's... |
Literary responses | Geraldine Jewsbury | Despite GJ
's reputation among her contemporaries as a major influence on Victorian literature, her contributions as author and critic have faded into obscurity. Late in the period, Margaret Oliphant
passed her over in The... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Helen Mathers | Her mother, about whom little is known, was born Maria Buckingham
. Her daughter's most famous work, Comin' Thro' the Rye, depicts a sweet and exhausted mother who is, according to critic Elaine Showalter |
Intertextuality and Influence | Adrienne Rich | Rich was during her lifetime and still is widely acclaimed and honoured as a major poet, theorist, and critic of culture. Her poetry and prose have been examined in literary and social criticism, and in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michèle Roberts | Apart from the helpfulness of those close to her, Roberts acknowledges here the scholarly work of Alex Owen
and Elaine Showalter
. Roberts, Michèle. In the Red Kitchen. Methuen. prelims |
Literary responses | Olive Schreiner | The book is a landmark text. In an introduction to an edition of 1968, Doris Lessing
(who first read it when she was fourteen) identified it as one of the few rare books .... |
Literary responses | Ethel Lilian Voynich | Bertrand Russell
exclaimed that it was one of the most exciting novels [he had] read in the English language. MacHale, Desmond. The Life and Work of George Boole: A Prelude to the Digital Age. Cork University Press. 312 Ramm, Benjamin. The Irish novel that seduced the USSR. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michelene Wandor | MW
became interested in Browning in 1972 after reading an article by feminist critic Elaine Showalter
, but did not begin writing the play for a few years. She found the process of adapting the... |
Literary responses | Jeanette Winterson | Advance readers compared the book favourably to Winterson' s popular early novels, even though they considered it to contain the same excesses that readers disliked in later works. However, according to Elaine Showalter
in the... |
Literary responses | Ellen Wood | The following year, Elaine Showalter
, in her influential A Literature of Their Own, 1977, claimed that for EW[w]riting was a form of release that enabled her to recover from her illness and... |
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