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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Edna O'Brien | EOB
's imaginative development was nourished by her wide reading, and consideration of a number of writers helped to shape her own style and vision. She has said in (April 2002) that one learns the... |
| Literary responses | Louise Page | LP
was so moved that she wept as she wrote this play. She later perceived an autobiographical element in it. |
| Education | Ann Quin | Yet at this time books discovered in the public library taught her the possibilities in writing: Greek and Elizabethan dramatists. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Quin | In her short autobiographical article Leaving School—XI, AQ
mentions having been writing stories since the age of seven to entertain myself. Quin, Ann. “Leaving School—XI”. London Magazine, Vol. new series 6 , pp. 63-8. 64 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | George Bernard Shaw | GBS
published Heartbreak House (with two other plays), a Chekhov
ian drama about the corruption of British society on the eve of the First World War. Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research. |
| Textual Production | Ali Smith | A second anthology collaboration from AS
, Sarah Wood
, and Kasia Boddy
was issued by Penguin Modern Classics: Let's Call The Whole Thing Off: Love Quarrels from Anton Chekhov
to ZZ Packer . Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
| Literary responses | Dodie Smith | Theatre World found this immeasurably Dodie Smith's best play, expressing admiration for her vivid sense of character and situation. “Review of Dodie Smith’ <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Dear Octopus</span>”;. Theatre World. (October 1938) |
| Textual Production | Githa Sowerby | Beecham
called the play a ferocious Geordie drama thick with dialect, diatribe and an unsparing depiction of the brutalities of the industrial north at the turn of the century. Beecham, Richard, and Patricia Riley. “Foreword”. Looking for Githa, New Writing North. |
| Textual Features | Christina Stead | It is a gentle story, called by Hazel Rowley
in the Oxford Dictionary of National BiographyChekhovian
. Its protagonist, Edward Massine, a Second World War veteran, owns two apartment houses in New York and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Taylor | As a child Betty Coles (later ET
) wrote plays (with very short scenes each demanding a new and elaborate setting) and stories. She said she always wanted to be a novelist. Leclercq, Florence. Elizabeth Taylor. Twayne. 2 |
| Residence | Iris Tree | With the start of the Second World War in 1939, the community, headed by Michael Chekhov
(nephew of Chekhov
the author) and funded by American Beatrice Streaight
, moved to Ridgefield, Connecticut. IT
and... |
| Textual Production | Iris Tree | IT
's sole biographer, Daphne Fielding
, records that Tree
wrote a number of plays during her time in Ireland. It seems they were not printed, since there are no records of them in... |
| Literary responses | Alice Walker | Reviews were mixed (one pronounced occasionally ponderous as well as poignant and personal). White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton. 188 |
| Textual Features | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Warner's stories have been compared to those of Anton Chekhov
, which are likewise portrayals of character and place having little or no plot. Baldwin, Dean, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 139. Gale Research. 139: 305 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Romer Wilson | The play traces a bourgeois family's fall from riches to rags as a result of the levelling down of classes in the Russian Revolution. The action begins in 1912 and runs until 1921, the year... |
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