Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Violet Fane | She took her pseudonym from Benjamin Disraeli
's Vivian Grey, as she explains herself in her essay Are Remarkable People Remarkable-Looking? (An Extravaganza) She there writes that Lord Beaconsfield had spoken of me as... |
Education | Stella Gibbons | SG
learned to read fairly late, but then read voraciously. The glowing Eastern landscapes and brilliant figures Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury. 20 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | In an extraordinary passage near the end of the book, Cecil lists a number of people who might, if they could only work together, revolutionize the country. Farrell, John P. “Toward a New History of Fiction: The Wolff Collection and the Example of Mrs. Gore”. The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, Vol. 37 , pp. 28-37. 36 |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Guest | CG
's friends included Benjamin Disraeli
(with whom she shared poetical enthusiasms before her first marriage), and her cousin Henry Layard
, who became famous as an archaeologist (the discoverer of ancient Nineveh) and who... |
Fictionalization | Charlotte Guest | Lady CG
's friend Benjamin Disraeli
portrayed her in her unmarried youth in Sybil, 1845, as Lady Joan Fitz Warene, who is not quite beautiful but intellectually brilliant. Obey, Erica. The <span data-tei-ns-tag="">Wunderkammer</span> of Lady Charlotte Guest. Lehigh University Press. 28 |
Reception | Janet Hamilton | In 1868 a petition to Benjamin Disraeli
on behalf of JH
resulted in an award of £50 from the Royal Bounty Fund. She also received a visit from a son—or possibly a general—of Italian unification... |
Literary responses | John Oliver Hobbes | More recently, Margaret Maison
characterised The School For Saints as a strange mixture of Disraeli
, Hardy
, Ouida
, and Meredith
. . . and there are even echoes of the old bigamy novels... |
Reception | John Oliver Hobbes | The New York Times reported in 1902 that on the strength of The School For Saints, JOH
had been asked to write a biography of Benjamin Disraeli
. If she began this project, she... |
Intertextuality and Influence | John Oliver Hobbes | She had been still writing it in the USA and after her return to London at the beginning of this year after its serialization had begun. Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray. 33-4 |
Literary Setting | John Oliver Hobbes | The protagonist of the novel, which is set primarily in the 1860s, is Robert de Hausée Orange, an idealistic orphan whose various adventures lead him through from Normandy in France to England, English politics, and... |
Occupation | Richard Hengist Horne | Reports such as Horne's also provided writers of protest literature such as Benjamin Disraeli
, Charles Dickens
, and Elizabeth Gaskell
with material which they incorporated into their fiction. Elizabeth Barrett
's The Cry of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Naomi Jacob | NJ
's father, Samuel Jacob
, had started life in Germany, the country to which his father had fled as a boy from Poland, after his parents were killed in pogroms. Longer ago... |
Publishing | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | In great need of money, Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
, began contributing to the Burlington Magazine; her first article blasted critics of Disraeli
's novel Endymion. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray. 171 |
Reception | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Following the death of her husband
, JFLW
wrote to Sir Thomas Larcom
, hoping he could help secure her a government pension. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray. 143 |
Reception | Ellen Johnston | EJ
wrote a petition to Prime Minister Disraeli
that resulted in a grant of £50 from the Royal Bounty. Klaus, H. Gustav. Factory Girl: Ellen Johnston and Working-Class Poetry in Victorian Scotland. Peter Lang. 91 |
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