Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Natalie Clifford Barney | This volume announced the sapphic theme which became central to NCB
's work. |
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 | Sybille Bedford | She later mentioned two youthful pieces on social issues involving literature: one on the potential damage done by a cheap popular press, Baudelaire
's view of l'infâmie de l'imprimerie, and the other on the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marjorie Bowen | MB
credits British women novelists for modifying the methods of the great European novelists, noting in particular Dorothy Richardson
's perfection of the stream-of-consciousness technique. She draws a contrast between Dorothy Richardson
's Miriam and... |
Publishing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
published The Doctor's Wife serially in Temple Bar; this novel offered an anglicisation of and response to Flaubert
's Madame Bovary. Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. The Doctor’s Wife. Editor Pykett, Lyn, Oxford University Press. xxvi |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christine Brooke-Rose | This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen
of a great German contemporary of Austen:... |
Textual Production | Anita Brookner | In the early 1980s AB
did a good deal of reviewing of literary works for the Times Literary Supplement. Skinner, John. The Fictions of Anita Brookner: Illusions of Romance. Macmillan. 9-11 |
Reception | Willa Cather | This novel poses a challenge both to contemporary and to later conventions of gender morality—a fact reflected in the tendency of commentators to liken it to Flaubert
's Madame Bovary, Cather, Willa. A Lost Lady. Virago. cover |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eva Figes | She considers the drama of ancient Greece and of the Renaissance, setting each in its historical context. After dealing with issues of religious belief, kingship, and the dead, she comes to that of women and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Grand | She again set her novel in her fictionalised version of Norwich, Morningquest. Of its three heroines, Angelica makes a moderately successful, though unconventional marriage to a man twenty years her senior to whom she... |
Textual Features | Violet Hunt | VH
's central character here is Phoebe Elles, described by Barbara Belford
as a British version of Flaubert
's Madame Bovary. Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster. 108 |
Literary responses | F. Tennyson Jesse | The novel's conclusion was immediately associated with the sensational Thompson
-Bywaters
murder case of 1922 (about which René Weis
published a study in 1988). Morgan, Elaine, and F. Tennyson Jesse. “Introduction”. A Pin to See the Peep Show, Virago. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 77 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jolley | |
Education | Mary Lavin | It was, she said later, through reading that I passed from childhood to adulthood, first through a chance encounter with Eliot
's Adam Bede (and that was the end of the school stories)... |
Timeline
1 October-15 December 1856: Gustave Flaubert serially published his first...
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1 October-15 December 1856
Gustave Flaubert
serially published his first novel, Madame Bovary, in the Revue de Paris.
November 1869: Gustave Flaubert published L'Education S...
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November 1869
Gustave Flaubert
published L'Education Sentimentale.
Late 1884: Publisher Henry Vizetelly produced the first...
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Late 1884
Publisher Henry Vizetelly
produced the first English translations of Émile Zola
: the novels Nana and L'Assommoir.
1886: Eleanor Marx, as Eleanor Marx Aveling, published...
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1886
Eleanor Marx
, as Eleanor Marx Aveling, published her English translation of Gustave Flaubert
's Madame Bovary from the original French.
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