Wormald, Mark. “Making a virtue of double vision”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4497, pp. 241-2.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Jo Shapcott | Epigraphs to particular poems quote Chaucer
, Swift
, Elizabeth Barrett
, Elizabeth Bishop
, Geoffrey Bateson
, and (most frequently) Elizabeth Hardwick
. The title-poem (called by a reviewer Kafka
esque) Wormald, Mark. “Making a virtue of double vision”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4497, pp. 241-2. 642 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Janet Schaw | Schaw's narrative falls into four parts, corresponding to different stages in her travels. In the first she crosses the Atlantic to the Caribbean. The others cover Antigua and St Kitts, North Carolina, and... |
Textual Features | Mary Savage | It is a poem highly characteristic of her manner: a moral tale featuring a personified quality, humorous, ironic, and written in octosyllabic couplets reminiscent of Swift
or Prior
. Prudence and Oeconomy are the daughters... |
Textual Features | Mary Savage | The opening poem, Nothing New, situates the anxieties of authors in regard to critics in the tradition of anxieties of lovers: both are right to be anxious. The contents include an English translation of... |
Anthologization | Sarah, Lady Pennington | An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to her Absent Daughters quickly became a staple of composite volumes directed toward young women's conduct. At Edinburgh a volume of this kind, Instructions for a Young Lady, in every sphere... |
Publishing | Mary Robinson | The Morning Post published MR
's London's Summer Morning, a word-painting of city life in the tradition of Swift
's Description poems. Curran, Stuart. “Mary Robinson and the New Lyric”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 9 , No. 1, pp. 9-22. 14-15 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emma Robinson | In print ER
's play was accompanied by a preface written in the voice of a young-Turk satirist. It is a piece that could hardly have appeared at this date under a woman's name, and... |
Textual Features | Maria Riddell | MR
's own twenty poems include prefatory verses as editor, written for the occasion. She prints work by the late Henrietta O'Neill
(the well-known Ode to the Poppy), Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire
(St... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Richardson | |
Education | Jean Rhys | At a very young age, JR
imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words... |
Education | Frances Reynolds | |
Friends, Associates | Alexander Pope | During these few months Pope
, Swift
, Gay
, and others met regularly as a brilliant, informal, all-male club in London for fun, jokes, and literary projects; they called themselves the Scriblerus Club. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Plath | At Cambridge she met Ted Hughes
, a British poet and fellow-student: his first passionate note to her is dated March 1956. In later letters he used an insistent baby-talk perhaps modelled on the Journal... |
Friends, Associates | Laetitia Pilkington | LP
's friendship with Constantia Grierson
had begun before her marriage. Both she and her husband were friends and protegées of Swift
, and she met and entertained the future Mary Delany
on the latter's... |
Textual Production | Laetitia Pilkington |
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