Laski, Marghanita. Ecstasy: A Study of Some Secular and Religious Experiences. Cresset Press.
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Wealth and Poverty | Hannah Lynch | HL
first appealed for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund
in 1895. On 14 February that year Walter Besant
wrote a letter on her behalf which emphasized her ill health and friendless condition; Mabel Robinson |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Michael Field | Both Edith and Katharine contributed to this extraordinary journal, giving their impressions of travel, art, religion, death, and love. They also record encounters with their literary contemporaries, including Robert Browning
, George Meredith
, John Ruskin |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marghanita Laski | ML
defines ecstasy as experiences that are joyful, transitory, unexpected, rare, valued, and extraordinary to the point of often seeming as if derived from a praeternatural source. Laski, Marghanita. Ecstasy: A Study of Some Secular and Religious Experiences. Cresset Press. 5 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Vernon Lee | This collection of essays, written at various times from about thirty years before its publication, constitutes a more thorough and effective study of psychological aesthetics than those undertaken by Lee and Kit Anstruther-Thomson
on visual... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marjorie Bowen | MB
credits British women novelists for modifying the methods of the great European novelists, noting in particular Dorothy Richardson
's perfection of the stream-of-consciousness technique. She draws a contrast between Dorothy Richardson
's Miriam and... |
Textual Production | Hannah Lynch | HL
's literary career accelerated in the early 1890s. She completed her novel The Prince of Glades in 1890 and published it in 1891. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 33242 (7 February 1891): 10 |
Textual Production | Dora Sigerson | The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter appeared with an introduction by George Meredith
. Sigerson, Dora, and George Meredith. The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter. Hodder and Stoughton. title-page Bailey, John Cann. “Mrs. Shorter’s Poems”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 304, p. 340. 340 |
Textual Production | Alice Meynell | AM
published The Second Person Singular, and Other Essays, a collection of twenty pieces about Italy, George Meredith
, Leigh Hunt
, Thomas Lovell Beddoes
, and Coventry Patmore
. 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. Meynell, Viola. Alice Meynell: A Memoir. J. Cape. 339-41 |
Textual Production | Geraldine Jewsbury | While working for the Athenæum, she reviewed works by literary figures including Mary Russell Mitford
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, Harriet Beecher Stowe
, Camilla Crosland
, Anthony Trollope
, George Eliot
, Julia Kavanagh |
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 |
Textual Production | Laurence Alma-Tadema | As translator of Maeterlinck
, LAT
signed (with Yeats
, Meredith
, Swinburne
, Hardy
, Arthur Symons
, Lucas Malet
, |
Textual Production | Sarah Grand | An entire literary-social movement evolved alongside SG
's writings about the New Woman. New Woman fiction, amounting to a new genre, had already been produced by George Egerton
in 1893, and was produced by Iota (Kathleen Caffyn) |
Textual Production | Lucie Duff Gordon | South Africa was the first place where LDG
lived on doctor's orders, apart from her family, in hopes that the warm, dry climate would help relieve her from tuberculosis. She began writing letters to her... |
Textual Features | Margery Allingham | In this novel MA
fictionalised the sordid and often undignified wrangles Martin, Richard. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press. 174 |
Textual Features | Thomas Hardy | TH
's earliest poems, written in London, reflect the influence of Shakespeare
and George Meredith
on one hand, Gittings, Robert. Young Thomas Hardy. Penguin. 122-3 |