Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
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Friends, Associates | E. Nesbit | EN
began to dabble, around 1908, in the Baconian question (whether the plays of Shakespeare
were actually written by Francis Bacon
). Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 278-9 |
Friends, Associates | Winifred Holtby | WH
met Jean McWilliam
at the WAAC unit at Huchenneville. They corresponded throughout Holtby's life, writing to one another as Rosalind and Celia from Shakespeare
's mutually devoted heroines in As You Like It. Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago. 79-81 |
Health | Anna Eliza Bray | In the first months of 1834 AEB
found herself again in ill-health. She lost her sight and was confined to her bedroom, where she amused herself by repeating passages from Shakespere
[sic], or inventing plots... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke | This play provoked Samuel Daniel
to respond with The Tragedy of Cleopatra (published in another work in 1594), and influenced Shakespeare
's Antony and Cleopatra. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, http://U of A HSS. 253n106 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Harriet Burney | The Shipwreck presents (with memories of William ShakespeareThe Tempest as well as Daniel DefoeRobinson Crusoe) Sabor, Peter. “Part of an Englishwoman’s Constitution: Sarah Harriet Burney and Shakespeare”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Harvey | The title-page quotes Shakespeare
. This novel follows, with serious concern as well as satirical humour, the career choices made by the sons of the Cleavland family. Their father favours science and agriculture, which he... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Thomas | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | The subtitle of this novel (which in earlier centuries had been the title of a bawdy song) here alludes to a proverb about the impossible perfections of maids' husbands and bachelors' children. This first novel... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Pamela Hansford Johnson | This is a satirical novel set on a US campus—though not, PHJ
insists, embodying any identifiable place or people. The title, from Shakespeare
's Midsummer Night's Dream, suggests that the campus of the story... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare
, Milton
, Pope
, Thomson
, Goldsmith
, William Mason
, John Langhorne
, Burns
, Erasmus Darwin
, Edward Young |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Mackenzie | The title-page bears a quotation from Shakespeare
; the dedication argues that the rebel Monmouth was wrong but deserving of pity. The story traces the fate of a family named Bruce; it opens with a... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | The title-page quotes Shakespeare
's Richard II about the deposing of a king. The novel opens with precision: at five o'clock on 22 June 1791, with aristocrats fearful for their fate in the aftermath of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Stevenson | AS
says she began to write verse when I was introduced to Shakespeare
and the English Romantics as a child, Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press. 121 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lesley Storm | The title is a near-quotation from Shakespeare
's A Midsummer Night's Dream—the working man who is about to play the role of the lion promises not to frighten the ladies in the audience: I... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Jacson |
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