Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Standard Name: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
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Friends, Associates | William Makepeace Thackeray | As well as meeting Goethe
, he had some contact with the intellectual circle presided over by Goethe's daughter-in-law, Ottilie
. |
Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | JWC
and Thomas shared an admiration for Goethe
. Thomas corresponded with him, and Jane netted him a purse. In reply Goethe sent the couple medallions and books, and for Jane he included a locket... |
Friends, Associates | Vernon Lee | Back in Italy after the end of the First World War, VL
continued to read widely. She returned to Dante
, Shakespeare
, and Goethe
. She introduced herself to newer writings on philosophy, science... |
Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | On 11 May 1812 Henry Crabb Robinson
recorded in his diary meeting JB
and other women writers on a visit to Miss Benjers (Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
). In his account of this pleasant evening... |
Friends, Associates | Germaine de Staël | In Germany she was celebrated as the author of Delphine. She met with Schiller
, Goethe
, Henry Crabb Robinson
, and Schlegel
, whom she persuaded to tutor her three living children. Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg. 61-2 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Wharton | After an epigraph from Goethe
(in German) EW
begins with her earliest memory, which she identifies with the birth of identity and relates in the third person, of the little girl who eventually became me... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amy Levy | AL
acknowledged the influence on her poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, Goethe
, Heine
, Robert Browning
, Swinburne
(whose poem Félise she answered in Félise to Her Lover), and James Thomson
(the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Maria Williams | This novel re-writes Rousseau
's Julie; ou, La nouvelle Héloise in the sentimental style of Frances Sheridan
's Sidney Bidulph or Henry Mackenzie
's Julia de Roubigné. Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon. 33 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Matilda Betham-Edwards | The poems are printed chronologically (by the author's desire rather than the editor's). MBE
's introduction says nothing about her subject's parentage or his life-history, but canvasses the issues involved in selecting from his poems... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Gertrude Stein | Critic Shirley Neuman
sees this opera as an important step towards the final version of Ida.GS
's Faustus (unlike Marlowe
's or Goethe
's) is tormented by the fact that he cannot go... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Maria Williams | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Robert Lee Wolff
argues that this is one of MEB
's very best Wilkie Collins
-style investigations. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 243 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Edgeworth | She designed it to combat the influence of romantic fiction, and to answer Germaine de Staël
's Delphine and Goethe
's Sorrows of Werther. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon. 318-19 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Set on the coast of Devon fifty years earlier, it traces the fates of two strong characters: Methodist preacher and shopkeeper Joshua Haggard and his daughter Naomi. In the opening scene, Joshua rescues Oswald Pentreath... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Agnes Maule Machar |
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