Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Aphra Behn | The opening scene introduces two unmarried lovers who have obviously only just got out of bed. Characters refer with off-hand frankness to sex between men and boys. The subplot comes from Cervantes
. Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press. 149ff |
Education | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Because of her mother's early death, MBE
, she said later, was largely self-educated, her teachers being plenty of the best books. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 124 |
Textual Production | Dora Carrington | Carrington
provided five illustrations for a school edition of Don Quixote by Cervantes
, published by the Oxford University Press
. Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press. 45 |
Textual Features | Sara Coleridge | SC
argues the merits of appreciating people, women in particular, for their moral worth and not for their physical beauty. She writes that by fostering our attention too exclusively on what is external, we overlook... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Davys | MD
makes skilful use of letters to project character, political issues, and gender interaction. Her use of significant dates (All Saints' Day, November the fifth) links her with the prophetic tradition of Lady Eleanor Douglas |
Occupation | Gustave Doré | |
Textual Production | Amelia B. Edwards | ABE
's earliest publications included A Summary of English History, From the Roman Conquest to the Present Time, 1856, and The History of France, from the Conquest of Gaul to the Peace of 1856... |
Textual Production | George Eliot | Many early extant letters of GE
's date from her unhappy, adolescent, Evangelical period, and have a tone of self-righteousness and censoriousness of others and of herself which is not pleasant to modern readers. In... |
Education | Elinor Glyn | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | After this tirade the novel is more fun than one might anticipate. The title-page quotes Sir John Vanbrugh
. The story opens with SG
's gentleman hero, Percival Ellingford, a recent convert to Methodism
... |
Textual Production | Augusta Gregory | Knowing she had not long to live, AG
published Three Last Plays, a volume which included The Would-Be Gentleman (adapted from Molière
), Sancho's Master (from Don Quixote by Cervantes
), and her last play, Dave. Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum. 285 Mikhail, Edward Halim. Lady Gregory: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. Whitston. 29 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Haywood | Bibliographer Patrick Spedding
called EH
's translation close and accurate apart from a consistent heightening of style, stepping up the emotional voltage. Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto. 162 |
Textual Production | Barbara Hofland | |
Textual Production | Christian Isobel Johnstone | This time she published as the author of Clan-Albin. Her title-page quotes a remark by Cervantes
' Sancho Panza about story-telling. This was the last novel that she published in volume form. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jolley |
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