Pilditch, Jan. Catherine Carswell. A Biography. John Donald.
161 and n50
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Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Anne Barker | MAB
's discussion of schools leads her into an account of a visit made by the Norwegian missionary, Bishop Schreuder
, to a later Zulu chief, Cetshwayo
, taken from a blue-book or government report... |
Textual Production | Catherine Carswell | CC
published The Tranquil Heart: Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio, a biography she undertook because of Boccaccio
's declaration that he wrote for women. Pilditch, Jan. Catherine Carswell. A Biography. John Donald. 161 and n50 Carswell, John, and Catherine Carswell. “Introduction”. The Savage Pilgrimage: A Narrative of D. H. Lawrence, Cambridge University Press, p. v - xxxv. xxxii |
Textual Production | Catherine Carswell | She says in her preface: Again and again Boccaccio
repeated that he wrote for women's instruction and delight, yet none but men have written about him. Carswell, John, and Catherine Carswell. “Introduction”. The Savage Pilgrimage: A Narrative of D. H. Lawrence, Cambridge University Press, p. v - xxxv. xxxii |
Textual Production | George Eliot | She thought, after this, of writing a poem on Timoleon, the Greek liberator of Syracuse in the fourth century BC. Instead, however, she started work on Middlemarch. In 1869 she wrote and published two... |
Textual Features | Violet Hunt | The text consists of twenty-four pieces written by Ford and previously published in the Outlook and the Daily News, which are connected here by VH
's linking prose. Hunt's biographer Barbara Belford
refers to... |
Publishing | Muriel Jaeger | The publishers' advertising contained a submerged allusion to Jaeger's following here of the concept of Boccaccio
's Decameron, dating from nearly six hundred years earlier. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Lamb | M. B.'s purpose in story-telling is not moral improvement but making little girls feel better (the youngest is seven): cheering them up since, newly sent to boarding school, they are crying for home; alleviating their... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Delarivier Manley | These novellas follow at more than one remove writers further back than Painter (Boccaccio
, Matteo Bandello
, Marguerite de Navarre
, and Chaucer
) in refashioning and retelling traditional stories. Most dated back... |
Textual Production | Marguerite de Navarre | The title too was posthumously applied, on the analogy of Boccaccio
's Decameron, meaning tales from ten days. Marguerite de Navarre
probably intended, as he did, a collection of a hundred stories, but she... |
Textual Features | Marguerite de Navarre | Whereas Boccaccio
's tale-tellers had retired to a country house while the plague raged in town, and those in Chaucer
's Canterbury Tales were on pilgrimage, Marguerite de Navarre
's travellers are stranded at an... |
Friends, Associates | Petrarch | At the age of eight Petrarch saw Dante
for the first and only time. One of the most important friendships of his life was that with Boccaccio
. “The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent. under Dante “The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent. |
Textual Production | Mary Pix | MP
published an anonymous verse tale, Violenta; or, The Rewards of Virtue: turn'd from Boccace
into verse. Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press. |
Textual Features | Mary Pix | MP
adapted this from the eighth tale of Boccaccio
's second day. Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press. |
Literary responses | Dora Sigerson | The reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement found this method of compiling stories (the method of Boccaccio
, Marguerite de Navarre
, and Chaucer
) effective for stringing together a number of diverse tales told... |
Textual Production | Christina Stead | Having accepted her novel Seven Poor Men of Sydney, Peter Llewelyn Davies
had wanted to publish it as her second work, to follow something else less unconventional. He got as far as advertising another... |
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