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Joan of Arc
Standard Name: Joan of Arc
Used Form: Jeanne d'Arc
Used Form: Joan d'Arc
Used Form: Maid of Orleans
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Travel | Emma Roberts | She wished to see the remarkable changes that had taken place in India over the past decade. In fact only parts of her journey were overland, but it was still unusual not to make the... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Brownell Jameson | One of the book's discussions centres on Joan of Arc
, and sees in her life a dilemma particular to women: the price which all must pay for celebrity in some shape or other. Mermin, Dorothy. Godiva’s Ride: Women of Letters in England 1830-1880. Indiana University Press. xiv |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Michèle Roberts | The contents of this volume span a range of genres and moods. poems about places or natural objects observe with precision; love poems are often ambivalent: won't you make my blood / jump? won't you... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Brownell Jameson | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria Jane Jewsbury | The more than thirty poems in the volume include ballads and lyrics, as well as Historical Sketches that recount the lives of Joan of Arc
and Mary, Queen of Scots
. The poem To Death... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Lennox | The Lady's Museum is rich in illustrations (and boasts one musical score). Its frontispiece (copied by The Lady's Magazine of 1789) shows a studious woman from whom Cupid's dart is being deflected. Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press. 203 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Isabella Banks | IB
's Labour's Progress and Triumph traces the rise of industry from its quasi-mythological beginnings, when the Romans landed in Britain, to the present, when oppression's star has set, and men are free / To... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sara Maitland | This genre seems almost impossible in the late twentieth century, but the authors believe that saints today are potentially spiritual resources whose presences through the traces they have left behind in the minds of the... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Katharine Tynan | In this first volume KT
establishes three themes that recur throughout her later poetry collections: religion, Ireland, and nature. The four monologues here are spoken by historical or legendary heroines: |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | All the five subjects are royal or noble (like the subjects of Agnes Strickland
), except one: Joan of Arc
, whom MGF
ardently admired. The others include the writer Marguerite de Navarre
and her... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | She opens her discussion here with a question: What does the Woman's Movement mean and what is its significance in our modern life? Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. The Meaning of the Woman’s Movement. Woman’s Press. 3 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marina Warner | The book presents Joan
as a unique historical figure, for she was not a queen, a courtesan, a beauty, a mother, an artist, or (until very long after her death) a saint. Warner argues that... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Laura Riding | The original typescript of 200,000 words covered such topics as Joan of Arc
, French poets, suicide . . . English romantic poetry, bulls, George Sand
, and so on. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books. 197 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Augusta Webster | The women speakers of Dramatic Studies include the imprisoned Jeanne d'Arc. By the Looking-Glass gives voice to a plain girl seated beside her bedroom mirror after she has arrived home from a ball. Skilled... |
Timeline
Early May 1429: Joan of Arc forced the English to raise their...
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Early May 1429
Joan of Arc
forced the English to raise their siege of Orléans, France.
30 May 1431: Following her trial for heresy, Joan of Arc...
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30 May 1431
Following her trial for heresy, Joan of Arc
was burned at Rouen under English occupying forces.
11 September 1801: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller's...
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11 September 1801
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
's tragedyDie Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans) was first produced, in Leipzig, with tremendous success.
1876: By this date, women healers were so popular...
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1876
By this date, women healers were so popular among spiritualists that one consultation often cost as much as a guinea.
17 June 1911: The Women's Coronation Procession was attended...
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17 June 1911
The Women's Coronation Procession was attended by 40,000 women from at least twenty-eight women's suffrage organisations, including both the Women's Social and Political Union
and the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
.
16 May 1920: Joan of Arc was canonised as a saint of the...
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16 May 1920
Joan of Arc
was canonised as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church
.
30 May 1941: At the instigation of Charles de Gaulle,...
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30 May 1941
At the instigation of Charles de Gaulle
, the feast-day of Saint Joan of Arc
was marked in Nazi
-occupied France by informal groups of people walking the streets of our towns and our villages...
1 March 1993: Leslie Feinberg, US writer and transgender...
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1 March 1993
Leslie Feinberg
, US writer and transgender activist, published her probably most famous work, Stone Butch Blues, a novel about growing up, as she had done herself, as a butch lesbian who rejected conventional sexual roles.
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