Virgil

Standard Name: Virgil

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Intertextuality and Influence Hélène Cixous
HC underlines her argument by examining myth. The mythical image of Perseus before the Medusa is invoked to describe a male fear of woman, and she calls women the dark region of men's world, saying:...
Textual Production Willa Cather
She chose an epigraph from Virgil 's Georgics,
Lee, Hermione. Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up. Virago.
90
and commissioned W. T. Benda for his spare and powerful illustrations, done with black brush-strokes on white.
Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, pp. 9-39.
35
She disliked, however, the book jacket. She...
Education Jane Welsh Carlyle
JWC 's Latin lessons began at the age of four, and by the time she was nine she was studying Virgil .
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell.
8
Her formal schooling began at the Grammar School run by William Graham
Textual Production Mary Carleton
According to critic Mihoko Suzuki , The Case incorporates two portraits of its protagonist. The same plate was apparently used in two versions, one revised as to the hairstyle and ageing of the face. One...
Literary Setting Lady Charlotte Bury
Opening in Lyons, the story moves through a whole list of places personally known to LCB : England (where Bertha goes to be a governess after her husband deserts her), Scotland, Switzerland...
Intertextuality and Influence Eavan Boland
Here she retains her focus on history and on women's lives. The relation between the two is paradoxical. Mise Eire (meaning I am Ireland)
McEvoy, Anne. Conversation about Eavan Boland with Isobel Grundy.
opens: I won't go back to it.
Boland, Eavan. Outside History. Norton.
78-9
Yet in...
Intertextuality and Influence Ann Eliza Bleecker
She used the writing of the pastoral to build a relationship with Tomhanick, Americanizing the topographical tradition to create a suitable backdrop for the life of a poet. Her work includes meditations on death...
Occupation R. D. Blackmore
He published several volumes of poetry and translated works by Theocritus and Virgil . He found the occupation of novelist extremely profitable, and used most of his revenue from writing to fund his horticultural endeavours...
Textual Production Annie Besant
AB published through the Freethought Publishing Company the pamphlet Sic Itur ad Astra; or, Why I Became a Theosophist.
The Latin quotation which opens the title comes from Virgil 's Aeneid. It means...
Textual Features Aphra Behn
She praised Creech's version (the first available in English) as making ancient learning available to women, whose education (according to the scanted Customs of the Nation)
Behn, Aphra. The Works of Aphra Behn. Editor Todd, Janet, William Pickering.
1: 25
keeps women from reading great writers...
Textual Production Maria Barrell
This was Printed for the Author, with a quotation from Prior on the title-page.
Barrell, Maria. Reveries du Coeur. Dodsley, Walter, Owen, and Yeats.
prelims
The running head throughout the volume uses a different title: Poems on Various and Select Occasions. The volume...

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