Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Samuel Beckett
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Standard Name: Beckett, Samuel
SB
, Irish expatriate poet, short-story writer, novelist, and playwright, was a major force in international twentieth-century writing and especially theatre. He wrote a high proportion of his works in French, usually doing the translations into English himself. His increasingly death-obsessed absurdity and minimalism are combined with an invincible energy of language, even while the text appears to despair of the efficacy of words.
GHS
(as Henrietta Leslie) entitled her autobiography (in a defiantly optimistic reversal of a proverbial phrase) More Ha'Pence Than Kicks.
OCLC lists an edition published in 1900 as held by five libraries in...
Textual Production
Zadie Smith
She titled two successive articles in the Guardian in January 2007 Fail Better and Read Better, remembering Samuel Beckett
's Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better (from Worstward Ho, 1983).
Textual Production
Sylvia Townsend Warner
This was one of The Dolphin Books published by Chatto and Windus
, a series including works by T. F. Powys
(The Only Penitent) and Samuel Beckett
(Proust).
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Editorial Materials”. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, edited by Claire Harman, Carcanet New Press, pp. xi - xxiii; 275.
280
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Ella K. Maillart
A travel book by EKM
(composed in French and first published as Oasis interdites: de Pékin au Cachemire) appeared in English as Forbidden Journey: From Peking to Kashmir, translated by Thomas McGreevy
...
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Anne Carson
The angle-bracket in the title is an accident which Carson made permanent: the name, she says, which her computer gave to her draft. Another technical glitch accounts for the fact that [m]ost of the text...
Textual Production
Nancy Cunard
The book, published by NC
's Hours Press
, included poems by Richard Aldington
and Samuel Beckett
and had a photomontage cover designed by Man Ray
.
Chisholm, Anne. Nancy Cunard. Knopf.
154
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Nancy Cunard
The original book was 855 pages long; it measured twelve inches by ten and half; it was two inches thick; it weighed eight pounds. The title, NEGRO, ran diagonally in large red capitals across...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Michelene Wandor
In its original form, says Greenhalgh, this book reflects MW
's roles as playwright, reviewer, and Leavisite
student of English literature.
Greenhalgh, Susanne. “A Review of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Post-War British Drama: Looking Back in Gender</span> by Michelene Wandor”. Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol.
13
, No. 1, pp. 125-6.
125
The revised form considers the impact of feminism, socialism, and changing concepts of...