Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From an Island: A Story and Some Essays. B. Tauchnitz.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | The chapters are headed with epigraphs from writers including Tennyson
, the BrowningsRobert Browning
, and her father
. The book pays tribute to the vanished Kensington of ATR
's childhood, still in the 1850s a... |
Dedications | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | The volume is dedicated to Tennyson
and his wife Emily
. Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From an Island: A Story and Some Essays. B. Tauchnitz. prelims |
Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
's From an Island: A Story and Some Essays appeared: the novella From an Island depicts Tennyson
's circle and his house at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight. Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, p. various pages. xxv, 172 Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 171 |
Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
's Reminiscences prefaced Alfred, Lord Tennyson
and His Friends, an elegant folio edition of photographs by her friend Julia Margaret Cameron
. Ritchie, Anne Thackeray et al. “Reminiscences”. Alfred, Lord Tennyson and His Friends, T. Fisher Unwin. |
Education | Adrienne Rich | The girls' father also had a strong influence on their education, as he was determined that Adrienne would be a poet and Cynthia would be a novelist. The girls had the run of the family... |
Friends, Associates | Adelaide Procter | AP
's parents entertained a circle of well-known literary personages, including Leigh Hunt
, William Hazlitt
, Thomas Moore
, Wordsworth
, Tennyson
, Longfellow
, and Henry James
. Intimates of the household included... |
Textual Production | Adelaide Procter | Here AP
's wide literary connections paid off handsomely. Contributors to The Victoria Regia included some of the most prominent names in literature of the day, mingled with less prominent writers who were also feminists:... |
Textual Features | Adelaide Procter | One of the poems collected here, Homeward Bound, is strikingly similar in subject to Tennyson
's later Enoch Arden, but Tennyson's son disavowed any influence despite the fact that his father owned the volume. Adey, Lionel, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 32. Gale Research. 32: 234 |
Reception | Adelaide Procter | By 1877 AP
was said to be second only to Tennyson
in the sales of her work, and, as Bessie Rayner Belloc
said, her poems must have penetrated into every reading household in Great Britain... |
Education | Winifred Peck | WP
's next school was one run at Eastbourne by a Miss Quill, and which she and her sister attended as day-girls. The school was selected by the great-aunt to whose house they were sent... |
Friends, Associates | Coventry Patmore | CP
's early contacts included Alfred Tennyson
, Robert Browning
, Thomas Carlyle
, Ralph Waldo Emerson
, and John Ruskin
. Later in life, he knew Gerard Manley Hopkins
and Edmund Gosse
. Among... |
Education | Ruth Padel | She found school work (at Byron House school in Highgate and then at the highly academic North London Collegiate
) difficult. She always got an A for English essays, although she would write a short... |
Textual Production | Ruth Padel | RP
joined with five other poets in Machinery of Grace. A Tribute to Michael Donaghy
(1954-2004), published by the Poetry Society
in 2005. That same year she read some of her poems for the... |
Education | Carola Oman | CO
badly wanted to go to boarding-school, and Cheltenham Ladies' College
was suggested, but her mother decided against it. Carola later felt that this had been a good thing, since the emphasis on sport (which... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Ogle | The success of AO
's first novel introduced her to England's literary circles. She knew the BrowningRobert Browning
s, the CarlyleThomas Carlyle
s, the ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
s, Tennyson
, and Swinburne
. She also kept company with Mary Louisa Molesworth
. 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. Meyers, Terry L. “Swinburne Reshapes His Grand Passion: A Version by ’Ashford Owen’”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 31 , No. 1, West Virginia University, pp. 111-15. 111 |
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