Lee, Hermione. Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up. Virago.
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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 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 |
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 |
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. Boland, Eavan. Outside History. Norton. 78-9 |
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 |
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 |
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