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.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Jane Cave | One interesting feature is the inclusion of nine poems by other authors: the canonical Prior
, Swift
, and Pope
, the lesser-known men John Scott
, William Broome
, and Nathaniel Cotton
, and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Cassandra, Lady Hawke | The future CLH
's father, Sir Edward Turner
, had the distinction of being called by Swiftfriend of Apollo and the Muses. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Angela Carter | Lorna Sage
noted that South America is an apt setting for this novel, since the essays and stories of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges
show a similar blending of the fantastical and the documentary (... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Leonora Carrington | The Debutante is set in an unnamed city on 1 May 1934. Its title character is an unnamed young woman who narrates in the first person and begins her narrative by announcing: When I was... |
Textual Features | Maria Callcott | Her editor Elizabeth Mavor
, however, prints a late poem (which MC
herself called jingling doggerel), written for a family magazine produced by some young nephews and nieces, which is anything but sapless in... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Caesar | MC
shared her husband's network of high-level connections in circles of Jacobites
and Jacobite sympathisers. She was a friend of the writers Pope
, Prior
, Swift
, and Mary Barber
, and of the... |
Literary responses | Mary Caesar | She was just as insecure about her style and presentation in letters as in her journal, and elicited reassuring praise from Pope
, Prior, Swift
, Lord Orrery
, and Lord Lansdowne
. Rumbold, Valerie. “The Jacobite vision of Mary Caesar”. Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740, edited by Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman, Batsford, pp. 178-98. 181-2 |
Textual Production | Medora Gordon Byron | It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press
, with a quotation from Francis Bacon
on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare
, Swift
, Prior
, Thomson
, Goldsmith
, Edward Young |
Intertextuality and Influence | A. S. Byatt | One reviewer noted ASB
's fascination with the symbolic world of the fairy tale, the dream and the artist's vision shape both the style and the content. Rankin, Bill. “Byatt’s Stories Live Up to her High Standards”. Edmonton Journal, p. F7. F7 |
Literary responses | Frances Burney | Evelina was an instantaneous success. While FB
's identity was still unknown she repeatedly listened to praise of herself, uttered in ignorance that she had any concern in it. Samuel Johnson
(like friends of Swift |
Textual Features | Frances Burney | Along with the sentimental and misunderstanding-prone lovers and the ridiculous esprit circle (which might so easily be taken to represent the Bluestockings), The Witlings features a women's working environment: a milliner's shop where seamstresses make... |
Textual Production | Jane Brereton | In March Fidelia to Sylvanus Urban had presented a literary defence of Jonathan Swift
(whose poems about women, Fidelia argued, were not misogynist but aimed at reforming individuals) and an elaborate joke about her secretly-cherished... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Boyd | EB
offers original, discriminating praise for women's writing: Susanna Centlivre
(her inspiration, she says), Eliza Haywood
(though she regrets her exposure of women's faults), Aphra Behn
, and Delarivier Manley
, whom she calls the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Simone de Beauvoir | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Battier | Battier wrote most of this poem in stanzas composed of six iambic pentameters: an unusual metre for her, and one she does not stay in without lapses which may be intentional. Before the last passage... |
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