Connolly, Sally. “Woolly whispers of the past”. Times Literary Supplement, p. 25.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | U. A. Fanthorpe | UAF
was anthologized by Adrian Barlow
in Calling Kindred: Poems from the English Speaking World, 1993. At Poetry International 2000, she chose Robert Browning
as her Presiding Spirit. Connolly, Sally. “Woolly whispers of the past”. Times Literary Supplement, p. 25. 25 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Fyge | In Lady Campbell, with a Female Advocate, SF
calls her first published work fatal: Go, fatal book, she writes, Fyge, Sarah. Poems on Several Occasions. J. Nutt. 22 |
Education | Dora Greenwell | Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 199 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke. 73 |
Education | Charlotte Guest | Lady Charlotte received a standard home education. She soon found that she loved serious learning and set out to pursue it. Studying on her own, she discovered and devoured Chaucer
(from whom as an old... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Isham | Her needlework included doing Irish stitch, tent stitch, and purse-work, making bone lace and bodices, and knitting stockings, and she often gathered flowers in order to copy them in stitching. Isham, Elizabeth. “Diary”. Constructing Elizabeth Isham. 1636 Isham, Elizabeth. “Booke of Rememberances”. Constructing Elizabeth Isham, edited by Elizabeth Clarke. 26r |
Education | Julian of Norwich | Julian of Norwich
may have been a learned woman; but if so it is not clear who taught her. She seems to have had a reading knowledge of Latin, and to have known the work... |
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 | Philip Larkin | His youthful letters to Sutton are clotted with obscenities in a schoolboy manner, boring and embarrassing to a later generation: My tooth still aches. Balls & anus! I feel shat upon. Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press. 5 |
Textual Production | Harriet Lee | HL
published Canterbury Tales for the Year 1797, the first volume of the work which was to make her famous Geoffrey Chaucer. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 2d ser. 22 (1798): 170 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sophia Lee | SL
's frame story delightfully introduces the series. Her narrator is a male poet, poverty-stricken but eager for fame. Having been driven out of his house by bailiffs, he goes sightseeing and is snowed in... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mina Loy | ML
met fellow art student Stephen Haweis
at the Académie Colarossi
. He was an example of pure British privilege who deliberately defied convention. Burke, Carolyn. Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 67 |
Textual Features | Judith Cowper Madan | |
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 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... |
Publishing | Edna St Vincent Millay | In 1924 Frederic
and Bertha Goudy
printed a limited edition of the title-poem Renascence at their Village Press
, using the very hand press that William Morris
had used for the Kelmscott Chaucer
. Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House. 320 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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