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Intertextuality and Influence | B. M. Croker | The title-page quotes Byron
on the power of Fate. The heroine is not always pretty, nor is she always Miss Neville. The book opens in the voice of eleven-year-old Nora O'Neill, known as Miggs, generally... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Hatton | The title-page quotes Ovid
and the first chapter is headed by Byron
. The convoluted Italian plot of action and mystery opens with a vivid, modern-seeming summer scene suddenly intruded on by horror. The young... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Liz Lochhead | In considering the question of why Mary Shelley
created monsters, LL
says she was haunted by that phrase from Goya
: The sleep of reason produces monsters. If you try to force things to be... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Grace Aguilar | The central character is the undowered girl Florence Leslie—so called because of her birth in Italy—whose high-minded principles have been fuelled by indiscriminate Aguilar, Grace. Woman’s Friendship. D. Appleton and Company. 13 |
Intertextuality and Influence | L. M. Montgomery | Her writing, like Emily's, was profoundly influenced by nineteenth-century English writers and poets. LMM
named Hemans
and Byron
in personal letters; Emily cites Tennyson
and Wordsworth
. Gillen, Mollie. The Wheel of Things. Fitzhenry and Whiteside. 149, 161 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Norton | The title poem relates how simple Rosalie leaves her rustic home with a rich young man, Arthur, who lives with her but does not marry her. Deserted and rejected after bearing his baby, she sinks... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Callcott | MC
's title-page quotes Byron
and her preface declares her subject to be the independence struggle of the patriots of the New World. Callcott, Maria. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. prelims |
Intertextuality and Influence | Liz Lochhead | The play was written for the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company
, who first performed it in Edinburgh on 24 January 1986. Lochhead surprised herself with her use of the Scots language: my grandmother's .... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Buchi Emecheta | During her schooldays literature was her greatest escape. Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann. 19 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Browne | FB
began writing at the age of seven, when, inspired by her great and strange love of poetry, she attempted to re-write The Lord's Prayer in verse. Browne, Frances. The Star of Attéghéi; the Vision of Schwartz; and Other Poems. Edward Moxon. xvi-xvii |
Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | She particularly admired Joanna Baillie
's Ethwald and the Chronicles of Froissart
. Germaine de Staël
's Corinne was another major influence on her. She wrote years later: That book, in particular towards its close... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ruby M. Ayres | Love Without Wings takes its epigraph from Byron
, though RMA
writes, Friendship is love, without wings. Ayres, Ruby M. Love Without Wings. Hodder and Stoughton. title-page |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | The title-page quotes Byron
pronouncing shame to the land of the Gaul. Gore, Catherine. The Lettre de Cachet; and, The Reign of Terror. J. Andrews. title-page Gore, Catherine. The Lettre de Cachet; and, The Reign of Terror. J. Andrews. iii |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Caroline Lamb | Paul Douglass points out that Ada Reis is a work of scholarship as well as of imagination; before writing the text, LCL
had digested many recent works of travel and exploration, including those by... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Loudon | This strikingly inventive and ingenious tale seems to owe a good deal to Mary Shelley
's Frankenstein (though Shelley receives no tribute in passing, as do R. B. Sheridan
, Byron
, and especially Scott |
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