Duffy, Maureen. Memorials of the Quick and the Dead. Hamish Hamilton.
64, 85
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Education | Catherine Cookson | As a young adult CC
took on her own education. With varying degrees of success she studied grammar, elocution, French, and the violin. She also discovered the public library. Colleagues at work got her to... |
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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Dunmore | These poems deal in passing time and final partings, with the sudden recognition of changes accumulated over years. The magic cloak of invisibility longed for by children comes in the end unsought for and the... |
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 |
Education | Elaine Feinstein | She later felt she was lucky to be a postwar student; before then, she would have been as out of place at Newnham as Amy Levy
. Christianity was everywhere Feinstein, Elaine. It Goes with the Territory. Alma. 37 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eva Figes | On the first page the protagonist in this very confusing story signs in to a hotel called the Black Swan under the name of Nelly Dean. She asks for a double room, saying she expects... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Finch | The court decided in favour of the children, and Anne subsequently moved to London where she lived with her paternal grandmother, Bridget, Lady Kingsmill, for most of her childhood. Lady Kingsmill had been a friend... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Martha Fowke | These poems reflect social life and perhaps the company of lawyers in the London of about 1720. Guskin, Phyllis J. “’Not Originally Intended for the Press’: Martha Fowke Sansom’s Poems in the Barbados Gazette”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 34 , No. 1, pp. 61-91. 66 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Gerard | This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Griffith | He describes her with a line from Donne
's Second Anniversary. EG
's range of reference here includes Rousseau
, Milton
, Frances Greville
, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
. Characters discuss and... |
Textual Production | Susan Hill | The new publishing firm of Sinclair-Stevenson
issued SH
's first novel in seventeen years, besides The Woman in Black: it was entitled Air and Angels, after a poem by Donne
. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Hill, Susan. Mrs. de Winter. Sinclair-Stevenson. end pages |
Textual Production | P. D. James | |
Education | Elizabeth Jennings | At university as at school, she was a voracious reader of poetry, feeling the influence in particular of John Donne
, Gerard Manley Hopkins
, and Robert Graves
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. under A Poet's Choice |
Intertextuality and Influence | Pamela Hansford Johnson | She was working on it while her family moved house, writing on packing-cases with the removers removing around me. Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner. 115 |
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