Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
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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... |
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 |
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... |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Luce Irigaray | |
Textual Features | Jean Ingelow | In the fantastic style rather like that of Lewis Carroll
(whose first Alice book appeared in 1865), JI
abandons her formerly didactic tone and presents a whimsical world of imagination inhabited by fairies, gypsies, and... |
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... |
Textual Production | Elspeth Huxley | |
Textual Production | Frances Horovitz | Greg Gatanby
included FH
's poem Invocation in his Whales: A Celebration, 1983. This anthology comprises excerpts from literature, legends, myths, religions, and poetry from around the world. Among others included are Jonathan Swift |
Education | Susan Hill | Although not a Catholic, she went to a convent school in Scarborough, where she set out to enlighten her school friends (who thought babies were grown from a packet in hospital, like plants from... |
Education | Carol Ann Duffy | Formative books for the child CAD
were Lewis Carroll
's Alice in Wonderland (a gift from her grandfather when she was seven), Richmal Crompton
's William books (I was William the anarchist and rebel... |
Textual Production | Carol Ann Duffy | At about seven CAD
enjoyed Carroll
's Alice in Wonderland so much that she began writing a continuation as soon as she finished the book. When she was eleven or twelve an inspirational English teacher... |
Textual Production | Clemence Dane | CD
collaborated with Richard Addinsell
, who wrote the music, on an adaptation of Lewis Carroll
's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research. 10: 133 |
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 |
Education | Agatha Christie | By the time Agatha was born, Clara Miller
believed that girls ought not to learn to read before the age of eight. Defiantly, Agatha taught herself to read at five. She eagerly devoured Lewis Carroll |
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