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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Alice Meynell | AM
's associations with Aubrey de Vere
, Patmore
, and Meredith
were mutually beneficial. She shared with these poet-mentors the passion and facility for metrical and verbal analysis. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 19 |
Publishing | Alice Meynell | Four of the poems had previously appeared in magazines. Of these, Why wilt thou Chide?, which was addressed to Coventry Patmore
and responded to his violent jealousy of AM
's friendships with other men... |
Textual Production | Alice Meynell | Poet and editor W. E. Henley
, printing the title essay in the Scots Observer, called it one of the best things it has so far been my privilege to print. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 98 |
Literary responses | Alice Meynell | Coventry Patmore
praised the volume hyperbolically in the Fortnightly Review: At rare intervals the world is startled by the phenomenon of a woman whose qualities of mind and heart seem to demand a revision... |
Dedications | Alice Meynell | She dedicated the volume to Coventry Patmore
, though their friendship had largely waned. Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House. 131 |
Textual Production | Alice Meynell | The volume includes Prefatory Poems by Coventry Patmore
, Francis Thompson
, George Meredith
, Vita Sackville-West
, and others. Many of them were written long before Meynell's death, Meynell, Alice. Alice Meynell: Prose and Poetry. Editors Page, Frederick and Vita Sackville-West, Jonathon Cape. 27-34 |
Fictionalization | Alice Meynell | To many of her contemporaries (especially male contemporaries), AM
symbolised the perfection of Woman and Mother. Many descriptions of her suggest Woolf
's Mrs Ramsay in To the Lighthouse. Coventry Patmore
and Francis Thompson |
Reception | Alice Meynell | |
Cultural formation | Viola Meynell | VM
's childhood home was a cultural centre for Roman Catholics
such as the poets Francis Thompson
and Coventry Patmore
. She was influenced by her parents' literary activities, as well as by her mother's... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Mary Moore | The Lure of Eve is prefaced with a quotation from Coventry Patmore
's poem The Toys. It presents a group of idealistic young men at the beginning of mostly creative careers: Deane the painter... |
Publishing | Caroline Norton | CN
's prolific reviewing included a signed notice, published in Macmillan's Magazine on 8 September 1863, of Coventry Patmore
's The Angel in the House and Christina Rossetti
's Goblin Market. |
Reception | Barbara Pym | Pym is not one of those women writers whose stock has risen through feminist re-evaluation. Five years after the influential Times Literary Supplement article was published, Penelope Lively
wrote, I am always surprised that the... |
Friends, Associates | Christina Rossetti | Around this time she became aware of her brother Dante Gabriel
's involvement with Elizabeth Siddal
, although she and Siddal met only in 1854 and were never intimate friends. Close family friends of Christina... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Sinclair | Several members of CS
's extended family were published authors. Her elder half-sister Janet
published religious works. The best-known in her own day was her great-niece Lucy Walford
, romantic novelist (whom Coventry Patmore
... |
Friends, Associates | Alfred Tennyson | A sociable man (although distrustful of unknown admirers) Tennyson was acquainted with many of the major artistic and political figures of the nineteenth century, including Edward FitzGerald
, Coventry Patmore
, Edward Lear
, William Ewart Gladstone |
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