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Intertextuality and Influence | Jeanette Winterson | In the opening chapter the narrator, a woman named Billie Crusoe, is making publicity announcements to a crowd of the inhabitants of Orbus about the newly-discovered Blue Planet, to which they will be encouraged to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ethel Wilson | The novel's epigraph is the especially popular passage from John Donne
's Meditation 17 which begins No man is an Island. The epigraph illustrates the novel's critique of extreme individualism and selfishness embodied by Hetty. Pacey, Desmond. Ethel Wilson. Twayne Publishers. 54-55 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michelene Wandor | These poems reflect gender power struggles: whether writing about motherhood, or the end of a marriage, or travelling by train to a Women's Liberation conference (another display / of all the frayed edges)... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michelene Wandor | It proclaims: this is the story of two people // this is the story of two peoples // and one God / your God or mine? Wandor, Michelene. The Music of the Prophets. Arc Publications. 34 |
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 Production | Gertrude Thimelby | GT
exchanged original poetry with one of her Jesuit brothers-in-law, Edward Thimelby
, who travelled secretly in England and who hoped to translate Donne
into Italian. Latz, Dorothy L., editor. “Neglected Writings by Recusant Women”. Neglected English Literature: Recusant Writings of the 16th-17th Centuries, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg. 16 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Winefrid Thimelby | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Gillian Slovo | The scrappily emerging stories of how these men ended up in Guantanamo Bay are horrifying in their randomness and confusion. For an audience already familiar with the outlines, details still convey a shock, as when... |
Education | Nan Shepherd | After attending Cults Primary School, followed by Aberdeen High School for Girls
, NS
received her MA (a first degree in Scotland) in 1915 from the University of Aberdeen
. Her studies in English laid... |
Education | Michèle Roberts | She chose the medieval option. Her tutor was Rosemary Woolf
, and she studied no authors later than Shakespeare
. She reports the results of this in two different ways. In one version the course... |
Education | Anne Ridler | She lived in a King's College hostel in Queensborough Terrace near Hyde Park,London. The course included lectures on history and literature. The distinguished scholar Jack Isaacs
lectured on Shakespeare
, Donne
, and Milton |
Education | Adrienne Rich | |
Textual Features | Adrienne Rich | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Katherine Philips | |
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 |