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Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Craik | The title-page quotes Virgil
. The preface relates how while staying with a friend in the north the author discovered an ancient manuscript, much torn and defaced in a trunk in a garret. Craik, Helen. Henry of Northumberland. William Lane. 1: xi |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Irwin | AI
praises both her father
and his estate, the baroque mansion and landscaped grounds recently completed to the designs of Sir John Vanbrugh
. Carlisle appears as a practitioner of ideal gentlemanly retirement: having... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Delany | Janice Thaddeus
discusses the prerogative MD
assumed in giving names of her own invention to people and places. Her uncle Lansdowne was Alcander (a violent man mentioned in Plutarch
's Lives, who was forgiven... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Drabble | The protagonist of The Seven Sisters, published in 2002, is a woman in her fifties whose husband and grown children have all abandoned her. Her own somewhat grumpy impressions of her newly single life... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Vita Sackville-West | The Land irresistibly recalls Virgil
's Georgics, the poem which gave its name to the genre of which it remains the best-known example; indeed, for some time VSW
intended to call her poem Georgics... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane West | JW
's preface invokes Shakespeare
, Virgil
, Homer
, and Sir Walter Scott
(she later adds Thomas Percy
) as more acceptable exemplars for romance than either the French romances (implicitly those of Madeleine de Scudéry |
Intertextuality and Influence | Vita Sackville-West | Virgil
, once thought of, became the poem's tutelary deity. He supplies an epigraph. VSW
opens in the epic manner—I sing the cycle of my country's year, / I sing the tillage Sackville-West, Vita. The Land. Heinemann. 1 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ursula K. Le Guin | The first part of the novel relates, with a somewhat different focus, the tale told by Virgil
(in which Lavinia is a non-speaking character); the second reaches beyond that stage of the story. |
Literary responses | Arabella Shore | Oscar Wilde
offered slightly faint praise. AS
, he wrote, had tried to guide modern readers through Dante's great poem as Virgil
guided Dante through the afterworld, and her modest literary guide-book was unlike many... |
Literary responses | Anne Francis | Critic Jacqueline M. Labbe
has discussed the first poem in this volume, Saham Gardens (at Saham Toney in Norfolk). She approved AF
's claiming the garden for specifically female power and delighting in her... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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.... |
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... |
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