White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | Here she expounds her method of teaching her grandchildren [or step-grandchildren] through play, and features acute critical comment on female writers for children. In particular, she makes detailed, intelligent criticism of Maria Edgeworth
's children's... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Susanna Wesley | SW
's father, the Rev. Samuel Annesley
(1620-96), was an eminent as well as a philoprogenitive London dissenter. During the interregnum he had been a presbyterian chaplain in the parliamentary navy. He then became rector... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Watts | After the pasted-in pages and a section devoted to Tasso
, the volume moves to a poem modelled on the tabular lists of good and evil in his life that are kept by Defoe
's... |
Education | Alice Walker | On her own the child AW
was always reading. At eight she identified in someone else's house a photograph of Booker T. Washington
—and asked, Why don't you give it to me, please? White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton. 31 |
Textual Features | Marie-Catherine de Villedieu | This book launched the genre of the false memoir (the form of, for instance, Defoe
's best-known novels, though the characters in French examples are generally high-born). It features the first female picaro in French... |
Textual Production | Emma Tennant | Like a Daniel Defoe
or Samuel Richardson
, she professes to be only the editor of her protagonist's own text. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Muriel Spark | Robinson is the name both of the island and of one of its two long-term occupants, a recluse who has bought the island and exiled himself there out of disillusionment with human society. Behind this... |
Leisure and Society | Mary Martha Sherwood | Her new religion, rigorous as it was, did not forbid fiction. Books were at a premium in India, and MMS
was delighted at encountering Defoe
's Robinson Crusoe and Richardson
. A new book, or... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Paula R. Backscheider
has noted the extraordinary popularity of this three-volume publication as measured in numbers of editions or re-issues: seventy-nine by 1825, eighty-nine by 1840, and in every decade from the 1730s to the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothy Richardson | In this book Richardson's heroine Miriam, now eighteen years old, has returned from Germany and is a resident teacher at Wordsworth House, a school in fictional Banbury Park, North London, run by the Perne... |
Education | Henry Handel Richardson | The child Ethel Richardson was a great reader. She identified with male fictional characters, and cherished three books which her father gave her almost on his death-bed: The Pilgrim's Progress by Bunyan
, Robinson Crusoe... |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Beatrix Potter | The Tale of Pigling Bland (written, significantly, in the days of BP
's own courtship) is a love-story in whose happy ending Pigling and his beloved Pig-wig go dancing off hand-in-hand Over the hills and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Florence Nightingale | In this report FN
explains how formerly nurses were women who were too old, too weak, too drunken, too dirty, too stolid, or too bad to do anything else. Poovey, Mary. Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. University of Chicago Press. 174, 242n25 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | Writing to Mary Russell Mitford
of her hope that they might meet, HM
acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett. 1: 263-4 |