Duncan, Robert, and Denise Levertov. The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov. Editors Bertholf, Robert J. and Albert Gelpi, Stanford University Press.
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Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Standard Name: Tolstoy, Lev Nikolaevich
Used Form: Leo Tolstoy
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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Doris Lessing | Martha comes to see her marriage as repeating a terrible mistake already made by her mother: she is horribly metamorphosed, entirely dependent on her children for any interest in life, resented by them, and resenting... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Doris Lessing | Lessing spoke here of visiting a four-room school in Zimbabwe, looking out on miles of charred stumps which she remembered as having been long ago the most wonderful forest I have ever seen. It... |
| Travel | Denise Levertov | DL
, on a visit to Russia (particularly Moscow), spent the day at Tolstoy
's house, Yasnaya Polyana. |
| Textual Features | Hannah Lynch | HL
's admiration of Meredith is very evident in the preface and throughout the book, which foregrounds his attention to the New Woman. Lynch refers to him as a master in English literature, and above... |
| Textual Production | Edith Lyttelton | EL
was in demand for years as a contributor to the publishing projects of others. Her name (as the Hon. Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton) appears, for instance, on a suffrage pamphlet of late 1906 (partly... |
| Textual Features | Constance Lytton | Most of the letters here are addressed to CL
's mother, her editor-sister, and two close friends who were also relations, her aunt Theresa Earle
and her cousin Adela Smith
. Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, and Constance Lytton. “Preface, Introduction”. Letters of Constance Lytton, edited by Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour and Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, Heinemann, p. v, xi - xv. v |
| politics | Ethel Mannin | During the 1930s, EM
was an atheist and a member of the Independent Labour Party
. She later leaned more towards anarchism and pacifism. She described herself as an champion for freedom who opposed the... |
| Literary responses | Kate Marsden | Isabel Hapgood
, an American writer and translator of Tolstoy
, thrashed KM
's book, On Sledge and Horseback to the Outcast Siberian Lepers, in a review for The Nation. Baigent, Elizabeth. “Kate Marsden: 18591931”. Geographers Biobibliographical Studies, edited by Hayden Lorimer and Charles W. J. Withers, Continuum, pp. 63-92. 67 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Bessie Rayner Parkes | A second edition appeared a year later, and a paperback edition in 2008. 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. |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | JP
had begun writing some years before this first publication. Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, pp. 23-4. 23 |
| Textual Features | Bernice Rubens | Mother Russia begins in a manner closely reminiscent of BR
's own Brothers (its closest parallel among her previous books). Again two near-simultaneous births take place in Tsarist Russia on a day also marked by... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Olive Schreiner | |
| Education | Zadie Smith | ZS
went to Malorees Junior School and then to Hampstead Comprehensive
. Tew, Philip. Zadie Smith. Palgrave Macmillan. 27 |
| Literary responses | Christina Stead | In 1963 Eldon Branda
produced a dramatised version which Stead liked, but which was not produced. Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg. 445 |
| Textual Production | Marie Stopes | The Authorized Life of Marie C. Stopes, a biography of MS
bearing the name of Aylmer Maude
, her longtime friend and biographer of Tolstoy
and many others, was paid for (and mostly written)... |
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