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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... |
Residence | Jane Welsh Carlyle | Jane had greatly enjoyed her time in London, notwithstanding her poor health. Her sadness about returning to Scotland was compounded by the deaths of James Carlyle
(Thomas's father) and of Goethe
. Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell. 103 |
Textual Production | Jane Welsh Carlyle | In her youth Jane Welsh composed verse translations from texts by Goethe
and Pierre Cardenal
, and of Chateaubriand
's Atala. She also wrote a number of original short poems; two of those that... |
Occupation | Thomas Carlyle | In 1814, TC
left the University of Edinburgh
and started teaching, taking up a position at Annan Academy
. He returned to Edinburgh in 1819 to pursue his literary aspirations. While there, he also worked... |
Textual Production | Anne Burke | AB
's first novel, the two-volume, anonymous, epistolary Eleanora: From the Sorrows of Werter. A Tale, was part of the overwhelming response to Goethe
's The Sorrows of Young Werther. Goethe's novel, published... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Brookner | It carries an epigraph from Goethe
's Sorrows of Young Werther about the advantages and disadvantages of middle-class society and its codes of conduct. The number of central characters here is higher than in AB |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christine Brooke-Rose | This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen
of a great German contemporary of Austen:... |
Textual Production | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | |
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 | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
set a great deal of store by meeting men distinguished as authors or in other fields, as a spur to literary achievement of her own. She was given to boasting of her acquaintance with... |
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 | Sybille Bedford | The third rejected novel was the story of a young man working at a tedious business job in London who loves art and travel and the good life, who falls in with a powerful and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Bannerman | Her model for the sonnet, as well as for the use of male erotic voices from Petrarch
and Goethe
, was Charlotte Smith
, though AB
's tone is more unrestrained and impassioned than Smith's. Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press. 135-6 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Bannerman | The contents included odes, sonnets (including one sequence from Petrarch
and another based on Goethe
's Werther, in which she speaks as the male lover of a woman, with notes relating her poems to... |
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