Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Heinemann New Windmill Series.
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Education | Maya Angelou | Marguerite Johnson had already become a voracious reader, both of Black writers and of canonical dead white males. Shakespeare
, she wrote later, was my first white love. Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Heinemann New Windmill Series. 12 |
Occupation | Charles Baudelaire | Remembered largely for his poetry, whose early publication provoked a major crisis in censorship, CB
also wrote important prose, especially criticism, and translated Edgar Allan Poe
's stories into French. As a literary and art... |
Textual Production | Theodora Benson | As Elizabeth Jenkins
told it, this began as an idea for a reportage novel illuminating the secrets of some particular métier. Jenkins hoped for something of morbid decadence reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe
, but... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Bishop | The volume reproduces in facsimile no fewer than sixteen drafts of one of EB
's best-known poems, One Art; Quinn's notes include snippets of rejection letters from the New Yorker. White, Gillian. “Awful but Cheerful”. London Review of Books, pp. 8-10. 10 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Critics are divided as to who should be seen as the detective in the novel, since there are several candidates. In its title—evoking both an Edgar Allan Poe
story of this title and the Book... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The title piece, A Drama of Exile, is the most ambitious. It visualises the consequences of the biblical Fall from paradise, since, as EBB
writes in the preface (where she casts herself, too, as... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Angela Carter | Carter attributes the idea for Love to Benjamin Constant
's nineteenth-century novel Adolphe. Linden Peach also notes intertextual references to Edgar Allan Poe
's poem Annabel Lee, and Nathaniel Hawthorne
's novel The Scarlet Letter. Peach, Linden. Angela Carter. St Martin’s Press. 59, 62-7 |
Textual Production | Lettice Cooper | LC
issued further biographies of eminent Victorians designed for young people: The Young Florence Nightingale, 1960, The Young Victoria, 1961, The Young Edgar Allan Poe, 1964, and A Hand Upon the Time... |
Textual Features | Rebecca Harding Davis | She achieves this in Bits of Gossip in a series of scattered remembrances of my own generation which included vivid portraits of some of the most prominent men and women of the American nineteenth century... |
Textual Production | Daphne Du Maurier | DDM
was fascinated by the history of Menabilly House, especially the story about workmen in the nineteenth century discovering a skeleton bricked up behind a wall—a tale calling to mind Poe
's short story... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Fuller | In her review Miss Barrett
's Poems she praised the English poet's majesty and her poetic vision but noted also her lack of economy and the stiffness of her verse. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 59 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Goudge | Here Goudge appears in eclectic company: with, among others, Joan Aiken
, Stephen King
, and Edgar Allan Poe
. |
Textual Features | Sarah Josepha Hale | Editorial policy was to avoid anything controversial in mainstream politics. The magazine never mentioned the Civil War during the course of the conflict. In contrast to the Ladies' Magazine, the new one had a... |
Education | Patricia Highsmith | PH
went to various schools. She was removed from her first NewYork public school because her grandmother objected to her making friends with black children. Then came a small and select private school which she... |
Occupation | Richard Hengist Horne | Educated at Sandhurst
, RHH
started writing and editing in his thirties after a spell in the Mexican navy. His verse was praised by Thomas Carlyle
and Edgar Allan Poe
. He also adapted plays... |