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Reception | Margery Lawrence | In his Foreword to the volume, Sir Shane Leslie
finds the influences of Shelley
, Yeats
, Tennyson
, Kipling
, Housman
, Chesterton
, and Fiona MacLeod
(pen-name of William Sharp). Yet according to... |
Reception | Jean Ingelow | Following the death of Tennyson
, JI
was considered for the position of Poet Laureate. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 35 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. |
Reception | Alice Meynell | |
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... |
Textual Features | Augusta Gregory | The play itself, entitled Colman and Guaire, is based on the local Irish legend of Saint Colman and King Guaire, drawn from the stories of workhouse inmates and other people around Coole. Gregory, Augusta. My First Play. Elkin Mathews and Marrot. 2 |
Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
's letters regularly indulge in analysis of books. She comments on works by both men and women, in English and French, and her opinions shift a good deal with age. She reacted with horror... |
Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | Freshwater was the name of Julia Margaret Cameron
's estate on the Isle of Wight, where Anne Thackeray Ritchie
had a cottage. The Stephen children had stayed there. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 75-6 |
Textual Features | Agnes Maule Machar | The novel is set in the fictional United States mill town of Minton, where the eponymous hero establishes a radical workers' newspaper. The story advocates labour reforms as proposed by the Knights of Labour
... |
Textual Features | Laura Ormiston Chant | The volume's shorter independent pieces include sonnets. The 70-page Verona, about 1,600 lines of pentameter blank verse, treats the conflict between the title character and her fiancé, Adrian, over her commitment to raising personally... |
Textual Features | Constance Naden | The Elixir of Life opens with the waking vision of a man and woman in their summer prime, he looking like Apollo, she looking like an angel with just a touch of the siren or... |
Textual Features | Augusta Webster | Like much of AW
's later poetry, this inaugural volume shows the influence of Alfred Tennyson
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, as well as earlier poets such as John Keats
. Many poems here, including... |
Textual Features | A. Mary F. Robinson | |
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 |
Textual Features | Emma Caroline Wood | The volume included selections from Byron
, George Eliot
, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, Christina Rossetti
, Sir Walter Scott
, Alfred Lord Tennyson
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
and William Wordsworth
. |
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 |
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