VW
had been ill while she was writing this book and was acutely anxious about its quality: she gave the manuscript to Leonard
to read with the brief of pronouncing whether or not it was...
Literary responses
Henry Handel Richardson
The Times Literary Supplement provided another favourable review, basing its approbation on the persuasive character-drawing of the supposedly male author.
Child, Harold H. “Ultima Thule”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1407, p. 42.
42
Its comments had already been outshone by Gerald Gould
in the Daily News...
Intertextuality and Influence
Adrienne Rich
The title poem comes last. Many of the pieces here, like the volume overall, are dedicated to individuals. They include dialogues between the present and the past or future, between personal life and the enormities...
For KR
, poetic tradition was that of the major romantic poets, headed by Blake
and followed by Coleridge
, Yeats
, and Edwin Muir
. She was at Girton
when a generation of Cambridge...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sally Purcell
The short poems of this collection are, as usual with SP
, highly allusive. Dr Dee
II and Dr Dee III again deal with sixteenth-century magic. Other pieces respond to writing by other poets: to...
Textual Production
Willa Muir
WM
and her husband
published their third Kafka
translation: the unfinished novel The Trial (originally Der Prozess). Kafka had stopped work on it in 1916, but its first publication in German was not until...
Residence
Willa Muir
Willa
and Edwin Muir
settled in a small cottage at Penn in Buckinghamshire, without eletricity, gas, or a sewage system; they did not stay long.
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press.
109, 118
Textual Production
Willa Muir
Willa
and Edwin Muir
published their translation of Kafka
's third unfinished novel, America.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
81, under Franz Kafka
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.
Travel
Willa Muir
When WM
became pregnant again, she and Edwin Muir
decided to leave France for England, since a boy born in France would have been liable later for call-up to do national service in the...
Textual Production
Willa Muir
A translation by both WM
and Edwin Muir
of Kafka
's ground-breaking, modernist short story The Metamorphosis, written in 1912, was reprinted in a volume entitled Metamorphosis and Other Stories.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
politics
Willa Muir
Willa
and Edwin Muir
represented the Scottish division of PEN
at the International Congress of PEN in Budapest.
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press.
152
Textual Production
Willa Muir
Six years after Edwin Muir
's death, WM
(as well as editing his Collected Poems) issued Living with Ballads, a study of the oral poetic tradition in Scotland, which he had planned but had left unfinished.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press.
312
Elphinstone, Margaret. “Willa Muir: Crossing the Genres”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 400-15.
400
Residence
Willa Muir
Willa
and Edwin Muir
moved to the Orkney Islands, off the northeast coast of Scotland (Edwin's native place).
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press.
174-5
Author summary
Willa Muir
WM
, a twentieth-century Scotswoman, wrote in fiction and non-fiction about gender inequality, patriarchy, and the repressiveness of Calvinism, but never defined herself as a feminist. She was alert to the devaluing of women's work...
Timeline
1925: Leonard and Virginia Woolf published Edwin...
