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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Martin Ross | Maurice Collis
, biographer of her and her cousin Edith Somerville, believes that MR
was bisexual in orientation, rather than a thorough lesbian like Edith. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968. 37 |
Dedications | Lettice Cooper | Lettice Cooper
dedicated her novel Snow and Roses to her fellow-campaigners for public lending right, Brigid Brophy
and Maureen Duffy
. British Library Catalogue. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Somerville | Some commentators have argued that theirs was a lesbian, sexual relationship, and some that it was not. It was the subject of the radio play One Goodnight by Maureen Duffy
, broadcast by the BBC |
Family and Intimate relationships | Brigid Brophy | BB
fell in love with her fellow novelist Maureen Duffy
in summer 1967. The early stages of this affair caused emotional pain because Duffy, still living with her former partner. The relationship developed from passion... |
Fictionalization | Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke | When most women writers of her age were forgotten, the Countess of Pembroke retained a niche in literary history as a partner in the Sidneian psalms as well as the dedicatee of the Arcadia.... |
Fictionalization | Charlotte Charke | The Gentleman's Magazine devoted more space to CC
's book this year than to any other new work, though these included Johnson
's Dictionary and Voltaire
's History and State of Europe. Baruth, Philip E. “Who Is Charlotte Charke?”. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma, edited by Philip E. Baruth, University of Illinois Press, 1998, pp. 9 - 62. 4 |
Friends, Associates | Brigid Brophy | BB
, with Maureen Duffy
, organised a Prop Art Exhibition in London. Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849. |
Health | Brigid Brophy | BB
had a dark experience which she mentioned in print but did not full explain: a closest ally (preumably Maureen Duffy
, with whom she had just broken up) became her assailant; she felt... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rose Tremain | RT
acknowledges the help of her fellow novelist Maureen Duffy
with a poem which passes through the head of one of her characters. It opens: Love was my dancing partner till / darkness fell in... |
Literary responses | Lettice Cooper | LC
's friend and fellow-novelist Maureen Duffy
praised this book for emotional clarity and political and psychological insight. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Occupation | Ann Jellicoe | AJ
had a long-standing professional relationship with the Royal Court Theatre
. Around the time her play The Sport of My Mad Mother was performed at the Court, she became involved in the newly formed... |
politics | Brigid Brophy | BB
became notorious for her politics in the sixties, an era of iconoclastic activity. She was a vegetarian, a sexual liberationist, an animal rights activist, a feminist, a writers' rights activist, a pro-pornography activist (she... |
politics | Lettice Cooper | She also participated in the campaign for authors' public lending right, having been a founder-member with Brigid Brophy
, Maureen Duffy
, and others, of Writers' Action Group
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Publishing | Beryl Bainbridge | The manuscript of this book had been firmly dismissed, with negative comment on the imagery, diction, and spelling, in 1964 by BB
's then agent. King, Brendan. Beryl Bainbridge. Bloomsbury , 2016. 259 |
Textual Production | Margaret Drabble | MD
's novel The Red Queen (not the only work to bear this title) appeared in the same month that another novelist, Maureen Duffy
, also published a book about a present-day woman encountering a... |