Granniss, Ruth S. A Descriptive Catalogue. The Grolier Club.
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Textual Production | Percy Bysshe Shelley | PBS
published his long poem Queen Mab, following quickly on Byron
's The Giaour. Granniss, Ruth S. A Descriptive Catalogue. The Grolier Club. 28-9 |
Education | Mary Sewell | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Sewell | MS
wrote mainly in verse for a working-class audience with the intent of instilling moral virtues in her readers. She believed that children memorize poetry easily, and that their imaginations are cultivated and their intellects... |
Education | John Ruskin | Taught at home until the age of fourteen by his parents and private tutors, JR
developed his drawing, and received an education that encouraged a love of Romantic Literature (including Byron
, Wordsworth
, and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christina Rossetti | Frances's eldest brother, John Polidori
, was briefly Byron
's physician, and also an author (of The Vampyre, 1819). He committed suicide as a result of gambling debts a decade before CR
was born. Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking. 15 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Education | Christina Rossetti | Christina and her siblings were educated by their mother
, in reading, writing, the Bible and rudimentary French. The boys were sent to school when they were seven, while the girls continued at home. Their... |
Textual Features | A. Mary F. Robinson | In her preface she claims the ballad and other popular poetic forms as the especial territory of women writers. Although her poems, says this preface, lack the splendour of Byron
or Hugo
, or the... |
Reception | Henry Handel Richardson | The Times Literary Supplement provided another favourable review, basing its approbation on the persuasive character-drawing of the supposedly male author. Child, Harold H. “Ultima Thule”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1407, p. 42. 42 |
Education | Jean Rhys | At a very young age, JR
imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words... |
Reception | Mary Renault | After completing Return to Night (published in 1947), MR
spent six months researching a novel about the life of Byron
. She abandoned the project when she became aware that previously unpublished correspondence between Byron... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Radcliffe | AR
's rival M. G. Lewis
finished reading Udolpho within ten days of its publication, though he had during the same time travelled from England to the Hague. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 93 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Radcliffe | Anna Seward
, in letters which were to be published in AR
's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 221-2 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Pym | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Adelaide Procter | AP
's father, Bryan Waller Procter
, was a successful London barrister. As Metropolitan Commissioner of Lunacy (from 1832 to 1861) Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Bryan Waller Procter |
Reception | Hester Lynch Piozzi |
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