Joan of Arc

Standard Name: Joan of Arc
Used Form: Jeanne d'Arc
Used Form: Joan d'Arc
Used Form: Maid of Orleans

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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...
Textual Production Marina Warner
MW published Joan of Arc : The Image of Female Heroism, her study of the legendary Maid of Orleans who became a fearless soldier, a martyr, and eventually a saint.
Warner's biography of Joan...
Textual Production Marina Warner
MW wrote her first screenplay, for the film Joan of Arc.
Moseley, Merritt, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 194. Gale Research.
194: 279
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 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: Louise de la Vallière...
Textual Production Christopher St John
The Catholic Women's Suffrage Society sponsored a performance of the play, since they saw Macrena as very much akin to their own patron saint, Joan of Arc .
Textual Production Robert Southey
RS published his epic poem Joan of Arc.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2nd ser. 16 (1796): 191
Textual Production Ethel Smyth
ES 's Female Pipings in Eden, a volume of collected essays, included a memoir of Emmeline Pankhurst , whom she considered more astounding than Joan of Arc .
Smyth, Ethel. Female Pipings in Eden. Peter Davies.
title-page
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1661 (30 November 1933): 851
Textual Production George Bernard Shaw
GBS 's history play Saint Joan, a provocative treatment of Joan of Arc , was first produced in New York, three months ahead of the London opening.
Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press.
xxviii
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
28 December 2007
Intertextuality and Influence George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan, a history play by GBS responding to Joan 's recent canonization, had its London opening at the New Theatre , starring Sybil Thorndike . The role was crucial for Thorndike, who was...
Textual Features Evelyn Sharp
She wrote of their presence at a public procession: Joan of Arc . . . was not more typical of the spirit that leads to victory . . . than was the paper-seller, dressed in...
Textual Production Vita Sackville-West
VSW published a biography, Saint Joan of Arc, with the publishers Cobden-Sanderson ; the full title was Saint Joan of Arc: Born, January 6, 1412, Burned as a Heretic, May 20, 1431, Canonized as...
Textual Production Maude Royden
MR 's Blessed Joan of Arc appeared as one of Sidgwick and Jackson 's Messages of the Saints series.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Textual Production Emma Robinson
ER , as the author of Whitefriars, etc. but posing as an editor, published The Maid of Orleans, a historical novel about Joan of Arc .
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1152(1849): 1177
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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...

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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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