Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 | Luce Irigaray | |
Textual Production | Ngaio Marsh | She pursued other interests in other mysteries, like Spinsters in Jeopardy (US publication late 1953; British publication early 1954, which drags Alleyn from an innocent family holiday to investigate events involving an esoteric religious... |
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... |
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 |
Textual Production | Flannery O'Connor | At about nine Mary Flannery O'Connor
gathered a small group of friends to whom, in a wooden play-house among the chickens, she would read from her pages and pages of handwritten stories about a family... |
Textual Features | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | Literary biographer Kathleen Hickok
notes that the tale is full of oblique eroticism, fairy episodes, and Romantic imagery, with a realistic frame tale of female innocence, modern marriage, and disillusionment with eros, pleasure, and idleness... |
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... |
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. |
Textual Features | Naomi Royde-Smith | NRS
begins with Sherwood's work as a children's writer, and the sway held by her Evangelical texts from about 1812 to 1850. She credits Lewis Carroll
in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with outdating the didactic... |
Textual Production | Penelope Shuttle | On her seventieth birthday PS
published a volume of poetry titled from a surreal line by Lewis Carroll
about joining in a quadrille: Will you Walk a little Faster?, dedicated to my family and... |
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... |
Textual Production | Githa Sowerby | Before she turned her talents to drama, GS
published eleven children's books, most of them in verse. All were illustrated by her sister, Millicent Sowerby
, who also illustrated editions of Lewis Carroll
's Alice's... |
Textual Production | Noel Streatfeild | In 1961 NS
had the honour of appearing in Bodley Head
's series of monographs on children's writers, where she joined such household names as Mary Louisa Molesworth
, Juliana Horatia Ewing
, Lewis Carroll |
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