Lewis, Margaret. Ngaio Marsh: A Life. Chatto & Windus, 1991.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Jo Shapcott | Germaine Greer
's Poems for Gardeners, 2003, includes several of the sensuous little 2-stanza poems that are Shapcott's version of Rainer Maria Rilke
's Les Roses, and printed in her Tender Taxes... |
Anthologization | Viola Meynell | |
Birth | Ngaio Marsh | NM
was born the only child of New Zealand-born Rose Seager Marsh and British-born Henry Edmond Marsh, in a modest, rented house in Fendalton, a suburb of Christchurch. Lewis, Margaret. Ngaio Marsh: A Life. Chatto & Windus, 1991. 8 McDorman, Kathryne Slate. Ngaio Marsh. Twayne, 1991. xiii, 4 It did not... |
Birth | Viola Tree | Her father, the famous actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
, named her after the Viola of Shakespeare
's Twelfth Night (though he almost named her Rosalind, for As You Like It). At her birth... |
Characters | Ivy Compton-Burnett | In A Heritage and its History an elderly uncle marries a young girl, his nephew seduces her and the son of their union later wishes to marry the nephew's legitimate daughter. British Book News. British Council. (1959): 747 |
Characters | Elizabeth B. Lester | EBL
gives a different interpretation to Mrs Ross's phrase the balance of comfort, balancing (here and in later novels) the single against the married life. The title-page quotes five prose maxims from one Harris... |
death | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | Reportedly, during the earliest stages of her illness, she was found resting on the sofa and reading Shakespeare
. Life is worth living, she told her family, as long as there is King Lear to... |
death | Christopher Marlowe | Standard accounts of his death used to say that it was a brawl, largely caused by himself. But accident seems unlikely. He had recently been brought in for questioning by the Privy Council
, but... |
Dedications | Christabel Coleridge | This small-size book has an ornamental cover and title-page, both printed in black and red on white. CC
dedicates it, with a quotation offering flowers, from Shakespeare
's The Winter's Tale, to J. F... |
Dedications | Anna Brownell Jameson | ABJ
published in two volumes Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical and Historical, later renamed Shakespeare
's Heroines; it was dedicated to Fanny Kemble
. Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997. 237 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908. |
Education | Melesina Trench | Her successive years with different guardians account for the apparent inconsistency in her comments about her education. In maturity she named her favourite youthful reading as Shakespeare
, Molière
, and Sterne
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Education | Hélène Cixous | She had already begun courses to prepare for university entrance at the Lycée Bugeaud in Algiers a year earlier. In 1957 she earned her bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Bordeaux
... |
Education | Pauline Johnson | |
Education | Ellen Wood | She was educated at home under the influence of a father interested in music and classical scholarship. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Education | Margaret Holford | The younger Margaret was taught at home, and became a precocious and devoted reader of Shakespeare
and others. Her appetite for all kinds of literature was said to be insatiable. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |