Kenyon, Olga. Women Writers Talk. Interviews with 10 women writers. Lennard Publishing, 1989.
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Characters | Michèle Roberts | This novel reflects both MR
's efforts to remove her own self from her writing, and the freedom and power she felt when she allowed herself, after all, to be present there again. Kenyon, Olga. Women Writers Talk. Interviews with 10 women writers. Lennard Publishing, 1989. 151-2 |
Cultural formation | Flora Tristan | When FT
embarked on her country-wide tour, she saw herself as undertaking a role with intense spiritual significance. She viewed herself as the female messiah or as the Saving Woman who brought life and salvation... |
Cultural formation | Ann Hatton | On 19 August 1834 she wrote to Douglas Cohen
expressing the hope that I may soon rest in the kingdom of God through the merits of our crucified Saviour Jesus
Christ and I beseech you... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Melvill | The collection opens with A Call to Come to Christ, which engages in sacred parody of Christopher Marlowe
's well-known Come Live With Me and Be My Love. Melvill imagines not a lover... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edna St Vincent Millay | First Fig (beginning My candle burns at both ends) had already been out for two years and had become Millay's signature text. Second Fig, like the volume's title, subverts a parable of Christ |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michèle Roberts | She began this book out of an impulse to think about where I came from, both genetically and socio-historically. Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago, 2007. 313 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Bruce Glasier | The pamphlet focuses on the idea that socialism is best understood as a religious creed and practice. Its first half, written by KBG
, employs a conversion narrative to express this perspective, while the second... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Augusta Gregory | This retelling of the Biblical story of Christ
's crucifixion, draws a parallel between the political situation in Ireland and that in Jerusalem at the time of Christ. Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum, 1985. 275 |
Literary Setting | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | Drawing on personal experience as a temperance worker, ESP
developed the story of a temperance-oriented minister who tries to live like Christ
in a fishing village where intemperance is rife. Embodying both religious and humanitarian... |
politics | Eva Gore-Booth | This involvement with the Rising aftermath was a highly disturbing first-hand experience of war Lewis, Gifford. Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Pandora Press, 1988. 141 Lewis, Gifford. Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Pandora Press, 1988. 141 |
Publishing | Henry Handel Richardson | Jacob Schwartz
published at the Ulysses Press
two handsome limited editions by HHR
, to catch the 1931 Christmas market. Her stories Mary Christina and The Life of Peterle Lüthy appeared in an edition of... |
Publishing | Katharine Tynan | One of KT
's better known religious works is Miracle Plays: Our Lord
's Coming and Childhood, which appeared in both London and Chicago in 1895. The plays cover The Annunciation, The Visitation... |
Textual Features | Ménie Muriel Dowie | The first story in the volume, Wladislaw's Advent, explores decadent themes familiar to its original publication venue. It depicts an impoverished Polish artist living in the west end of Paris, and his encounter... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Jennings | A number of poems in this volume express sympathy with the losses and failures of humanity, or address the passage of time. Several concern religious observance: among these are two poems both bearing the title... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Bathurst | The book opens with several stages of preliminary matter. In an opening epistle to five individual Friends, EB
says she has not acted out of ambition to be printed or to be popular, but in... |