Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Anna Livia has published her short stories in such periodicals as Spinster, Sinister Wisdom, Lesbian Ethics, and Girljock. She has also included her fiction in anthologies edited by Lilian Mohin ,...

Books borrowed from Hackney Public Library were also important to HP 's education: the moderns (Woolf , Lawrence , Hemingway , Eliot ), and also Dostoyevsky .

Carrington began to alter herself in other ways also. During her first term at the Slade she began to go by her surname only. Excitement about her new surroundings and acquaintances prompted her to...

Betty Coles's first reading was Beatrix Potter , then Lewis CarrollAlice in Wonderland and E. Nesbit , whose Bastable stories she read over and over again. Though her parents were not bookish people she progressed at...

PH went to various schools. She was removed from her first NewYork public school because her grandmother objected to her making friends with black children. Then came a small and select private school which she...

She read voraciously, preferring writers with the geographical rootedness which she herself lacked: George Eliot , Thomas Hardy , Charles Dickens , and from beyond the English tradition Marcel Proust , James Joyce , Henry James

PB , living in an almost completely book-free environment (though their few books included some tattered volumes of Arthur Mee 's The Children's Encyclopaedia), says she became hooked on reading from newspapers round...

In her short autobiographical article Leaving School—XI, AQ mentions having been writing stories since the age of seven to entertain myself. Her urge to write was fostered by her discovery of Dostoyevsky 's...

In mid-career AC said she had worked mainly with women as her publishers' editors. Shared gender makes a difference in this relationship, she wrote, even if the reader has zero feminist consciousness. Her two...

AD 's work weaves together a wide range of cultural and literary references: the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgîtâ, as well as such European authors as E. M. Forster , T. S. Eliot , Dickinson

MD uses Dostoyevsky 's Brothers Karamazov for her epigraph. The wounds of the title, both hidden and visible, are of many kinds, physical and emotional. The characters, a large cast of them, are offered each...

The narrative voice (a Scottish one, apparently as a kind of joke) is complex and shifting, with irony fed by unstable reference to the central couple (now Muriel and Henry, now Mother and Father, and...

In shaping her thought, her father 's influence was primary. Later influences on her thinking and therefore also in her novels were provided by Dostoevsky in particular, by existentialist philosophy as embodied in Sartre ...

In 1963 Eldon Branda produced a dramatised version which Stead liked, but which was not produced.Stanley Burnshaw fought to persuade Holt, Rinehart and Winston to re-issue the work, but again no British publisher...

After its appearance in England this book was reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement by Anthony Samuel Curtis , together with a recent reprint of For Love Alone. Curtis judged that two novels shared...