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Intertextuality and Influence | Bathsua Makin | Makin proposes a curriculum which blends tradition with innovation. In arguing that it is more important to know things, than to get words and that languages (the staple of current male education) are subservient to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | Browne had made his Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents [sic] and commonly presumed truths (addressed not to ordinary, mis-informed people but to men of learning) almost an encyclopaedia of seventeenth-century misconceptions... |
Literary Setting | E. Nesbit | Though the story centres on Yalding on the river Medway, the honeymooners travel to a whole list of EN
's favourite places before finally settling at Crow's Nest Farm, a portrait of her hideaway... |
Occupation | Marie Corelli | Her guardianship of Shakespeare
's memory extended to public opposition of the Baconian theory that emerged in the early twentieth century: the belief that Shakespeare was not the author of the works attributed to him... |
Occupation | Mary, Countess Cowper | She says she never solicited for a place, though she wrote to the Princess on the death of Queen Anne. Mary, Countess Cowper,. Diary. Editor Cowper, Charles Spencer, John Murray. 2 |
Occupation | E. Nesbit | A few years later she believed, as if she had entered into one of her own fantasies for children, that she had found out the Shakespeare cipher, which comes out as definitely as the result... |
Reception | Virginia Woolf | The first study of VW
was that of Winifred Holtby
in October 1932. Those future writers who did work on VW
during their student days have included Mary Lavin
and Michèle Barrett
. In 1992... |
Residence | Rumer Godden | Though she still found it hard to write in the country, RG
called this the happiest house we have had. Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan. 170 |
Textual Features | Frances, Lady Norton | The preliminary pages feature a poem written by Grace aged eleven: 16 lines in couplets, expressing the sentiment that there is no true happiness for mortals on earth, but only in heaven. Grace, Lady Gethin,. Misery’s Virtues Whetstone. Editor Frances, Lady Norton, Printed by D. Edwards for the author. A3r |
Textual Features | Sarah Green | SG
's preface puts her cards on the table as a political and social conservative. It says Reform, which seems now to be the present order of the day, Green, Sarah. The Reformist!!! A Serio-Comic Political Novel. Minerva Press for A. K. Newman and Co. 1: i |
Textual Features | Ethel Sidgwick | Hatchways is one of ES
's more humorous novels, since much is made of a foreign visitor's response to English culture and his desire to know more about what he takes to be its representatives.... |
Textual Features | Constance Smedley | This first dialogue concerned the Baconian controversy. CS
's father was given to harping on his belief that Sir Francis Bacon
wrote the works of Shakespeare
. This is the position taken by Smedley's Victorian... |
Textual Features | Caroline Blackwood | Critic Val Warner
called CB
a unique voice in twentieth-century British fiction. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 65: 38 |
Textual Production | Daphne Du Maurier | DDM
published The Winding Stair, a biography of Sir Francis Bacon
(about whom she had already written the previous year in Golden Lads). TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 3880 (23 July 1976): 914 “Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com. Kelly, Richard. Daphne du Maurier. Twayne. 150 Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus. 391 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Stopes |
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