Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
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Occupation | Sarah Flower Adams | In addition to writing hymns, SFA
attempted a stage career: she aimed to develop both musical and dramatic skills. Eliza Bridell Fox
notes that the aspiring performer possessed a rich contralto voice. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research. 199: 4 |
Textual Production | Fleur Adcock | In December 1986 FA
published the sequence of ballads entitled Hotspur (spoken by Elizabeth Mortimer
, historical wife of Harry Percy
, heir to the first Earl of Northumberland, Shakespeare
's Hotspur). These poems were... |
Textual Production | Grace Aguilar | GA
's domestic novel Woman's Friendship was issued posthumously. She had passionately defended her choice of topic by citing the authority of Shakespeare
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Grace Aguilar | GA
defends her central subject (which eclipses the requisite romances in the plot) in these terms: if Shakspeare
scorned not to picture the sweet influence of female friendship shall women pass it by as a... |
Textual Production | Anna Akhmatova | During the years that followed, her writing was sporadic and without hope of reaching print. In 1933 she was translating Shakespeare
's Macbeth, bearing in mind how relevant to her present life was its... |
Education | Margery Allingham | MA
was a fluent reader and writer by the time she was seven years old. Thorogood, Julia. Margery Allingham: A Biography. Heinmann. 25 |
Education | Maya Angelou | Marguerite Johnson had already become a voracious reader, both of Black writers and of canonical dead white males. Shakespeare
, she wrote later, was my first white love. Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Heinemann New Windmill Series. 12 |
Education | Maya Angelou | When at seven she moved from Stamps to St Louis and attended Toussaint L'Ouverture High School, Marguerite found the teachers more formal but the students comparatively backward. In a year there she felt she learned... |
Travel | Maya Angelou | Her role in the Porgy and Bess touring company was MA
's passport to travel the world. In Montreal she felt able for the first time in her life to look freely at white people... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Pat Arrowsmith | PA
kept a very detailed diary between the ages of thirteen and fifteen. She published excerpts and illustrations from it, with passages from her two juvenile novels, in I Should Have Been a Hornby Train... |
Education | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Her education under her next governess, Squidge (an Austrian called Miss Fraulein by everyone but Cynthia), was a quite different matter: Beauman writes that Squidge had a heart but no mind. Nevertheless, by sixteen Cynthia... |
Textual Production | Margaret Atwood | Awad, Mona. “Art to enchant”. The Globe and Mail, p. R11. |
Education | Margaret Atwood | She attended elementary school, and then from 1952 Leaside High School
in Toronto, both in the Protestant public school system operating in Ontario alongside a Catholic one. She and her schoolmates got prayers and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Atwood | Several stories in Good Bones delight in giving something to say for themselves to literary characters generally understood to be beyond sympathy (the stepmother, the ugly sister, Gertrude in Shakespeare
's Hamlet). Others employ... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | W. H. Auden | It is no wonder than that Auden is an entertaining critic, with a penchant for the gnomic whether in titles (his essay on detective stories is called The Guilty Vicarage; his essay on Kafka |