France, Linda. “One of a Kind”. Mslexia, No. 26, p. 53.
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Linda France
Standard Name: France, Linda
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Sheenagh Pugh | Other anthologies including SP
's work are Poems on the Underground, Pat McLoughlin
's edited selection of radio readings entitled Woman's Hour, The Hutchinson Book of Post-War British Poetry, Poems of the... |
| Anthologization | E. J. Scovell | EJS
has been much anthologised: in Geoffrey Grigson
's Poetry of the Present: An Anthology of the Thirties and After, 1949, and more recently in collections edited by Fleur Adcock
, Philip Larkin
,... |
| Fictionalization | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | For centuries LMWM
has been interpreted and re-interpreted, judged less often as writer than as an exemplar of the unacceptable female. Her fame and/or notoriety flourished during her lifetime, and posthumous publications kept it alive... |
| Literary responses | Ruth Padel | Linda France
, reviewing this book for Mslexia, called it intimate, animated, and inviting. Crown, Sarah. “A life in poetry: Ruth Padel”. The Guardian. |
| Literary responses | E. J. Scovell | Admirers of her work include a number of fellow poets: Carol Rumens
(who identifies her unemphatic, undeceived and honest observation of what is as the mark of a specifically modern sensibility), Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Textual Features | Ruth Padel | The poems here, addressing the circumstances of Darwin
's life, employ a scaffolding of his own words, forcefully shaped, against a background of many other voices (including that of an orangutan in a zoo). They... |
| Textual Production | U. A. Fanthorpe | She co-operated with others in many further works. She appeared with Tony Lopez
in Mortal Heart, 1981. In 1994 she participated in two joint projects: Painter and Poet: Three Poems (limited edition), where her... |
Timeline
Late October 2003
The magazine Mslexia invited UK publishers to nominate women who had published their first poetry volume in the last ten years, in order to pick a Top Ten list.