Duffy, Maureen. Memorials of the Quick and the Dead. Hamish Hamilton.
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Literary responses | Cicely Bulstrode | During CB
's lifetime Ben Jonson
attacked her by calling her both a fool and a whore. After her death, both he and John Donne
eulogized her morals and also her wit. |
Literary responses | Anne Locke | Charles A. Huttar
has praised AL
's sermon translation as readable, clear, and energetic—qualities in her original which it would have been easy to lose in translating. Editor Kel Morin-Parsons
calls the sonnets her most... |
Occupation | Lady Anne Clifford | |
Reception | Mary Astell | Astell's late twentieth-century reputation as a feminist foremother led to a biography by Ruth Perry
(1986), a one-volume selection of her work edited by Bridget Hill
(The First English Feminist, 1986), and editions... |
Residence | Gertrude Thimelby | This convent was linked with that of the nun and writer Gertrude More
(who died in 1633) and her sister and cousins, all of whom were closely related to John Donne
. It had been... |
Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Many poems here feature women answering back to canonical male voices: Liz Lochhead
to Donne
, Jenny Joseph
to W. S. Gilbert
, U. A. Fanthorpe
to Walt Whitman
, Wendy Cope
to A. E. Housman |
Textual Features | Maureen Duffy | Dates given to poems in the volume range from August 1970 to December 1978. Duffy, Maureen. Memorials of the Quick and the Dead. Hamish Hamilton. 64, 85 |
Textual Features | Ephelia | Among the poems of praise, To Madam Bhen [sic] (then a not uncommon rendering of Behn) adapts from Cowley
's famous praise of Philips
the idea of uniting the Strong and Sweet. Ephelia,. Female Poems on Several Occasions. James Courtney. 73 |
Textual Features | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | The poem The Witch in the Wardrobe, as ENC
explained to Colette Bryce
, comes in part from the The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
, in which a... |
Textual Features | Christine Brooke-Rose | |
Textual Features | Katherine Philips | In this piece Orinda tells Lucasia: For thou art all that I can prize, / My Joy, my Life, my rest. Philips, Katherine. Collected Works. Editors Thomas, Patrick et al., Stump Cross Books. 1: 121 |
Textual Features | Adrienne Rich | |
Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | RM
published And No Man's Wit, a highly political novel set during the SpanishCivil War. The title comes from a passage by John Donne
, where he imagines catastrophic change, such as... |
Textual Production | Anne, Lady Southwell | Both are replies to writing by men: the certain Southwell ascription answers Donne
's Newes from the very Country, and the almost-certain one to Overbury
's own Newes from Court. Details in the... |
Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | Writing about a wide range of authors from Caedmon
to Coventry Patmore
, she devotes a significant portion of the book to the seventeenth century, which held a great interest for her. The chapter Anglicans |
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