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Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Education | Rhoda Broughton | She was taught at home by her father. He encouraged her to read widely, introduced her to English poetry and Shakespeare
, and taught her Latin and Greek. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rhoda Broughton | Critics have pointed to a range of influences and allusions in this novel. Kate Flint
has suggested that the representation of the sorrowful-eyed aesthete Francis Chaloner was a satiric jab at Oscar Wilde
, who... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rhoda Broughton | A Beginner tells the story of Emma Jocelyn, a young woman who writes a novel called Miching Mallecho. (The title, drawn from Hamlet, elicits the following exchange between Emma and her aunt in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rhoda Broughton | RB
's satire here embraces the publishing industry and its pandering to readers' tastes. Emma's cousin Lesbia is apparently representative of a particular type of circulating-library reader; much to Emma's mortification, she likes Miching Mallecho... |
Education | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | EBB
's early immersion in fairy stories and popular tales was followed by a more ambitious course of reading that began around the age of seven with history, classical poetry, and some of Shakespeare
's... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | She did not show the poems to Browning
until July of 1849; he persuaded her to include them in her next edition of Poems, saying I dared not reserve to myself, the finest sonnets... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh was, according to Barry Cornwall (father of Adelaide Procter
), the book of the season. Procter, Bryan Waller. An Autobiographical Fragment and Biographical Notes, with Personal Sketches of Contemporaries, Unpublished Lyrics, and Letters of Literary Friends. Editor Patmore, Coventry, Roberts Brothers. 113 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Pronouncements about gender, which permeated the Victorian reception of poetry (or of poetry by women) are particularly inescapable in the reception of Aurora Leigh, which directly satirised the criticism of women writers and other... |
Literary responses | Robert Browning | Critical response was very positive. Gerald Massey
in the Athenæum proclaimed Browning a great dramatic poet and felt that Shakespeare
would have approved. Walter Bagehot
characterized his style as grotesque, a judgement which has stuck. Irvine, William, and Park Honan. The Book, the Ring, and the Poet: A Biography of Robert Browning. McGraw-Hill. 397 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Bryher | |
Education | Pearl S. Buck | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Burke | A quotation from Shakespeare
's The Tempest intruces an opening scene of storm and shipwreck on a lonely western coast. The only survivor, a six-month-old baby girl in a cradle, is rescued with a gold... |
Textual Production | Sarah Harriet Burney | While struggling to finish this work, SHB
called it my own eternal rubbish Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press. 130 Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press. 153 |
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 | Sarah Harriet Burney | These letters show her to be a rewarding, informal, up-to-the-minute literary critic. She kept remarkably up to date on the topic of women's writing, showing herself consistently receptive to new styles and new ideas. She... |
Timeline
1978: Melissa Murray's play Belisha Beacon was...
Women writers item
1978
Melissa Murray
's playBelisha Beacon was produced and performed by the Pirate Jenny
theatre group, in the same year as two more plays by her, one solo and one collaborative.
27 January 1979: A one-day strike by 1.5 million British public...
National or international item
27 January 1979
A one-day strike by 1.5 million British public sector workers ushered in a series of selective strikes which gave rise to the Shakespearean
phrase winter of discontent.
23 April 1993: The new Globe Theatre on London's South Bank...
Building item
23 April 1993
The new Globe Theatre
on London's South Bank (masterminded by Sam Wanamaker
and designed as a modified replica of Shakespeare
's theatre), although still a building site, put on its first production.
13 July 2006: A rare book sale at Sotheby's brought under...
Writing climate item
13 July 2006
A rare book sale at Sotheby's
brought under the hammer both a First Folio of the works of Shakespeare
and a copy of the first edition of Woolf
's Orlando inscribed to Vita Sackville-West
.
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