Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
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Textual Features | Marina Warner | She begins with the Enlightenment thinking which displaced the ideas of Aristotle
. Her first chapter is entitled, surprisingly, Wax; the others are Air, Clouds, Light, Shadow, Mirror, Ghost... |
politics | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
was a fervent anti-vivisectionist. She followed the issue of experiments on animals closely from early in her career. By 1874 she was petitioning the RSPCA
to pursue legislation restricting vivisection: Robert Browning
, Thomas Carlyle |
Literary responses | Louisa May Alcott | Among a chorus of praise from those who read LMA
when they were young, Edith Wharton
stands out as harder to please. In her memoir A Backward Glance, 1934, she recalls how her mother... |
Literary responses | Augusta Webster | The book could hardly have been written, said the Athenæum, unless Kingsley
's Water Babies and Lewis Carroll
's Alice in Wonderland had preceded it. It pronounced the book's much ado without nothing is... |
Literary responses | E. Nesbit | In 1915 EN
was granted a Civil List
pension of sixty pounds a year. She was pleased but not overwhelmed at this honour, and thought it ought not to have been taxed. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 365-6 |
Literary responses | Jean Ingelow | U. C. Knoepflmacher
notes the extent to which Mopsa has been misread . . . as a slavish dependence on Carroll
'sAlice in Wonderland, and seeks to counter this by offering a sustained... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Theodora Benson | While the title alludes to Lewis Carroll
, the chapters are headed with quotations which begin with Shakespeare
and Verlaine
, move through such less usual sources as Punch and Rupert Brooke
, and conclude... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | Arthur Munby
read with strong admiration & pleasure Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray. 119 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | Indebted, as the Athenæum remarked, to Lewis Carroll
's Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Speaking Likenesses features fantastic creatures and happenings that mirror the internal audience's characters, often their faults. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Luce Irigaray | |
Friends, Associates | Rhoda Broughton | The sisters were in general popular in Oxford society, but Rhoda, although at first she dined regularly at the table of scholar Benjamin Jowett
, “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (29 November 1940): 5 |
Friends, Associates | Christina Rossetti | Her literary connections expanded further with the publication of Goblin Market and Other Poems. Dora Greenwell
approached her effusively by letter and Lewis Carroll
was keen to photograph her and her family. In 1865... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Menella Bute Smedley | According to scholar Andrew Sanders
in the ODNB, she was also a cousin, through her mother, of the Dodgson family, and by passing on some writing by the future Lewis Carroll
to her cousin... |
Education | Jan Morris | Morris's mother, who liked to have several books in different languages on the go at the same time, taught eclectic reading to her child. Both Lewis CarrollAlice in Wonderland and Mark TwainHuckleberry Finn made a great impression... |
Education | Enid Blyton | Enid later recalled in vivid detail the first school she went to, Tresco, which was run by the Misses Read in their private house. She recalled, too, the most important texts among her early reading:... |
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