Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago.
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Friends, Associates | Clemence Dane | Toasts were proposed by suffragist Philippa Strachey
and by Ethel Watts
(chair of the Junior Council of the London and National Society for Women's Service
), the latter of whom hoped that in the future... |
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 | 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 | Frances Jacson | |
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 | 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 | Eliza Parsons | Each of the three volumes has a different quotation on its title-page: the last is Shakespeare
's defiant Freeze, freeze thou bitter sky, maintaining that harsh weather is mild compared with human injustice. Parsons, Eliza. An Old Friend with a New Face. T. N. Longman. 3: title-page |
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 | 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 | Ruth Rendell | The title comes from the Fool in Shakespeare
: Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness.This novel portrays the effects of attempting to control the destinies of others. Three different men are... |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elaine Feinstein | Subjects of poems here include Dickens
, Thomas
and |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Jacson |
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