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Textual Production | Ruth Pitter | RP
kept up a voluminous correspondence with many writers and artists. More than a thousand of her letters survive. Her correspondence with C. S. Lewis
ran from 1946 until 1962, but only his side of... |
Textual Features | Charlotte McCarthy | Her Letters Moral and Entertaining seem written on the model of Elizabeth Singer Rowe
's Friendship in Death. One is from a departed Spirit, to his Friend in this World. McCarthy, Charlotte. Justice and Reason. printed for the author. 202 |
politics | Ruth Pitter | In December 1949 RP
participated in a two-day debate held in C. S. Lewis
's rooms at Magdalen College, Oxford
, on whether women ought to be parsons. King, Don W. “The Anatomy of a Friendship: the correspondence of Ruth Pitter and C. S. Lewis, 1946-1962: Mythlore, Summer 2003”. Findarticles. 2 |
Literary responses | Ruth Pitter | RP
hunted out a copy of this book to present to C. S. Lewis when they first met in July 1946, writing that she thought it, though only grotesque & satirical . . . my... |
Literary responses | Ruth Pitter | RP
said of the Hawthornden Prize, That brought me out into the daylight. Russell, Arthur et al. “Faithful to Delight: A Portrait Sketch”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, pp. 19-40. 35 King, Don W. “The Anatomy of a Friendship: the correspondence of Ruth Pitter and C. S. Lewis, 1946-1962: Mythlore, Summer 2003”. Findarticles. 2 |
Literary responses | Anne Bacon | In recent times but well before the renaissance of interest in women writers as such, in his volume on the sixteenth century in the august Oxford History of English Literature, C. S. Lewis
pronounced... |
Literary responses | Ruth Pitter | During her lifetime RP
was deeply appreciated by some readers. C. S. Lewis
scatters through his letters such remarks as Whenever I re-read your poems, I blame myself for not re-reading them oftener. King, Don W. “The Anatomy of a Friendship: the correspondence of Ruth Pitter and C. S. Lewis, 1946-1962: Mythlore, Summer 2003”. Findarticles. 2 |
Literary responses | Marie de France | Having been influential for a couple of centuries after her period of activity, MF re-entered modern literary consciousness with a late-eighteenth-century critical work by Gervais de La Rue
, translated into English under the auspices... |
Literary responses | Dorothy L. Sayers | Within Sayers's lifetime she had become a figure of controversy on account of the element of Christian partisanship in her non-fictional works. In The Emperor's Clothes, 1953, Kathleen Nott
bracketed Sayers with T. S. Eliot |
Literary responses | Charlotte Yonge | E. M. Delafield
writes that during the 1940s CY
retained wide popularity: that the London Library
's copies of her books were often checked out by readers, and that when Delafield wrote to the Times... |
Literary responses | Kathleen Nott | This book was controversial. Philip Toynbee
called it a rare example of vigorous polemic, witty, hard-hitting and deeply serious. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2705 (4 December 1953): 773 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | The poem The Witch in the Wardrobe, as ENC
explained to Colette Bryce
, comes in part from the The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
, in which a... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Kathleen Nott | Here KN
writes a lively style, with ingenious images and examples, paradoxes like giving a name a bad dog (by which she means taking a concept like Liberalism or Science and using it pejoratively), Nott, Kathleen. The Emperor’s Clothes. Heinemann. 43 |
Instructor | Elaine Feinstein | She later felt she was lucky to be a postwar student; before then, she would have been as out of place at Newnham as Amy Levy
. Christianity was everywhere Feinstein, Elaine. It Goes with the Territory. Alma. 37 |
Instructor | Mary Renault | Her godmother Aunt Bertha lent her the funds to attend Oxford. She was greatly influenced by the lectures of Gilbert Murray
, Regius Professor of Greek, who lectured on Greek drama and had also founded... |