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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... |
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 |
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 | Agnes Maule Machar | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Francis | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Brownell Jameson | The book is also a model of female erudition, peppered with foreign phrases, references to earlier Shakespeare critics, to the visual arts, and to other authors, including the ancient Greek dramatists and the German romanticists... |
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 | Elizabeth Jolley | |
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:... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah More | More takes a sceptical view of sensibility: she reproves both the representation of it in Goethe
's Werther (which had been available in English for about three years) and the sentimental enthusiasm which the book... |
Intertextuality and Influence | May Laffan | Set largely in Laffan's home town of Dublin, Hogan, M.P. captures an Ireland whose growing Catholic middle class is challenging the long empowered Protestant ascendancy. The action takes place three or four years before... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Louisa May Alcott | LMA
's Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustian novel A Modern Mephistopheles was published in 1877. Its title had originally belonged to her sensation novel, A Long and Fatal Love Chase, which was posthumously published in 1995. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 239 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth von Arnim | Inspired by the spirited correspondence between Goethe
and Bettina von Arnim
, EA
(as the author of Elizabeth and her German Garden) published Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther. Woolf, Virginia. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Editors McNeillie, Andrew and Stuart Nelson Clarke, Hogarth Press. 1: 136 Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head. 117 |
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