Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books.
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Textual Production | Judith Sargent Murray | The future JSM
wrote a history (probably fiction) when she was nine, which years later she disparaged as an imbecile effusion. Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books. 95 |
Textual Production | Helen Waddell | While working on her W. P. Ker lecture in spring 1947, HW
conceived the wish to work on Virgil
: to do a really great translation of the Second Book of the Aeneid—Aeneas telling... |
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 Features | Elaine Feinstein | The poet-narrator revisits the Russia of the 1930s and meets the great writers who rule her imagination, under the guidance of Marina Tsvetayeva or Tsvetaeva
, as |
Textual Features | Ursula K. Le Guin | The trouble comes from a sorcerer, Cob, an old enemy of Ged, who has found a way to evade death. All over the Earthsea world people are obsessed with the idea of living for ever... |
Textual Features | Alethea Lewis | She heads her novel with a prefatory letter to the Rev. William Johnstone
, who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities... |
Textual Features | Marie-Catherine de Villedieu | |
Textual Features | Alexander Pope | Pope's thesis here (for which he evades responsibility by attributing it to Blount
) is that women are too changeable to have any lasting character or personality. The fickleness of women was of course a... |
Textual Features | Helen Waddell | HW
's preface reflects her wide reading, addresses the various traditions—from pagan to Virgil
ian—that went into the lyrics she translates, and makes it clear that she envisages her anthology as a companion to The... |
Textual Features | Lucy Hutchinson | In the later cantos the biblical narrative is handled less didactically, more dramatically and psychologically. Some of the digressions, personifications, and descriptions suggest Virgil
ian epic. Greer, Germaine. “Horror like Thunder”. London Review of Books, pp. 22-4. 24 |
Textual Features | Clara Reeve | |
Textual Features | Susanna Watts | Ephemera of all kinds have been bound in: family anecdotes, a letter of William Cowper
of 1788, a Hindu Primer (or alphabet), a railway ticket of 1839, women's parliamentary petitions against slavery of 1833 (one... |
Publishing | Penelope Lively | PL
's more recent work for children includes almost every imaginable kind of fiction. Some of her titles are futuristic, like Judy and the Martian, 1992, and A Martian Comes to Stay, 1995.... |
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... |
Occupation | Frances Arabella Rowden | FAR
was clearly a key element, perhaps the key element, in the success of the Hans Place school. She taught the general curriculum there for nearly twenty-five years, from its founding until 1818, and she... |
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