Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
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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... |
Textual Production | Catherine Byron | CB
began work on a new media project entitled The Hous of Rumour: A Structure Wide Open to Voices and the Elements, incorporating poetry, memoir and new media writing. The spelling of Hous underlines... |
Textual Production | Maureen Duffy | MD
's website features a series of poems indignantly addressed to William Langland
, author of Piers Plowman, of behalf of the new, unacknowledged poor. The New Vision of Piers Plowless sets the scene:... |
Textual Production | Catherine Carswell | CC
's busiest literary decade was the 1930s, years after she stopped writing novels. She kept reviewing, and began a new career as a broadcaster. She co-edited two anthologies with Daniel George
: A National... |
Textual Production | Laura Riding | LR
published A Trojan Ending, her novel about Cressida, the Greek heroine of Chaucer
, Robert Henryson
, and Shakespeare
. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books. 296 Wexler, Joyce Piell. Laura Riding: A Bibliography. Garland. 60 |
Textual Production | Samuel Beckett | SB
's first-drafted novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, remained unpublished until after his death. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Doreen Wallace | DW
followed this with two social-issue novels: So Long to Learn, 1936 (titled with a quotation from Chaucer
), a topical story about the tithe wars, and Old Father Antic, 1937, a story... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Virginia Woolf | The book's contents consisted largely of already published journalism, carefully revised for the collection. McNeillie, Andrew, and Virginia Woolf. “Introduction”. The Common Reader, Annotated Edition, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, p. ix - xv. x |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Carol Ann Duffy | Alongside poems on national occasions, public sites, widely revered figures like Chaucer
and Shakespeare
, stand some deeply personal poems, like Pathway (which the Guardian reprinted on 27 September), in which the poet sees her... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Clara Balfour | In her general overview of the history of English literature during these centuries, she focuses especially on English poets because as she says, great poets not only give form, power and beauty to a nation's... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Cooper | Her selection runs from Edward the Confessor
to Samuel Daniel
. (The title-page mentions Gower
, Langland, and Chaucer.) For each poet she provides a short biography and a scholarly and critical preface. Her judgements... |
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