Herman Melville

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Standard Name: Melville, Herman
Birth Name: Herman Melvill

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Education Matilda Betham-Edwards
Because of her mother's early death, MBE , she said later, was largely self-educated, her teachers being plenty of the best books.
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
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Apart from the family library, a half-guinea annual subscription to the Ipswich Mechanics' Institution
Intertextuality and Influence Angela Carter
In mid-career AC said she had worked mainly with women as her publishers' editors. Shared gender makes a difference in this relationship, she wrote, even if the reader has zero feminist consciousness.
Carter, Angela. “Notes from the Front Line”. On Gender and Writing, edited by Michelene Wandor, Pandora Press, 1983, pp. 69 -77.
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Intertextuality and Influence Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In Through the Magic DoorSACD wrote of those authors whom he felt to have been his most important influences, including Froissart , Boswell , Walter Scott , Thomas Babington Macaulay , Carlyle , Melville
Performance of text E. M. Forster
Billy Budd, Benjamin Britten 's opera based on Herman Melville 's novel, with libretto by EMF and Eric Crozier , opened at the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden, London.
Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1987.
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Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean. A Bibliography of E. M. Forster. Clarendon, 1985.
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Textual Features D. H. Lawrence
Here Lawrence discusses such authors as Fenimore Cooper , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Herman Melville , and Edgar Allan Poe .

Timeline

26 February 1846
Herman Melville published his first book, Typee; or, A Peep at Polynesian Life.
18 October 1851
Herman Melville published Moby Dick in England under the title The Whale.
18 December 1853
Putnam's Magazine carried the second part of its two-part, anonymous serialization of the novellaBartleby, the Scrivener. A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville .
May 1856
Herman Melville published his collection of short storiesThe Piazza Tales.
1 April 1857
Herman Melville 's last novel, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, appeared.
1924
Billy Budd, Foretopman, a novella written by Herman Melville in 1891, was published posthumously in a volume entitled Billy Budd, and Other Prose Pieces.