Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
240: 189
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Travel | Bessie Rayner Parkes | In 1896 BRP
travelled with her son
to the United States. He later recalled that she found it appalling as all English people do Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 189 |
Textual Production | Monica Dickens | Its title comes from some lines of poetry by Hilaire Belloc
: There's nothing worth the wear of winning, / But laughter and the love of friends. Dickens, Monica. An Open Book. Heinemann. 201 |
Textual Production | Marie Belloc Lowndes | This book was three times reprinted by January 1942. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. prelims |
Textual Features | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Her authors are mostly well-known: Hardy
, Barrie
, Sir Henry Newbolt
, Hilaire Belloc
, Hugh Lofting
, and Walter de la Mare
, apart from two stories by herself. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton. 286 Colles, Hester Janet. “A Gallery of Children”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1245, p. 804. 804 |
Publishing | Ruth Pitter | RP
published a volume entitled First and Second Poems 1912-1925. Hilaire Belloc
covered her production costs (again) and supplied a preface which praises her work very highly. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1318 (5 May 1927): 316 |
Publishing | Ruth Pitter | Hilaire Belloc
helped her to achieve this by paying for its publication out of his own pocket. Russell, Arthur et al. “Faithful to Delight: A Portrait Sketch”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, pp. 19-40. 35 |
Publishing | Jan Struther | JS
published The Modern Struwwelpeter, illustrated by Ernest Shepard
: verses about naughty children getting their deserts. Hilaire Belloc
's Cautionary Tales for Children, 1907, seems as much a model as Heinrich Hoffmann
. Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray. 64 |
Publishing | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
's book about her brother
's early years, The Young Hilaire Belloc, appeared posthumously in the USA (edited by her daughter Elizabeth Iddesleigh
). It was never published in England. Elizabeth Northcote, Countess of Iddesleigh, et al. “List of Books by Mrs Belloc Lowndes, Foreword”. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947, edited by Susan Lowndes Marques and Susan Lowndes Marques, Chatto and Windus, pp. prelims, 1 - 3. prelims Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus. 217n2 |
Occupation | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
resolved early on a writing career, and in 1888 became (through the influence of Cardinal Manning
, a family friend), a journalist for the Pall Mall Gazette. Her earnings contributed, in a tradition... |
Literary responses | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | This is the novel chosen for analysis by Patrick Braybrooke
in Some Goddesses of the Pen, 1928. He is clearly disturbed by EBO
's presentation of anti-semitism, but credits her with candour and straight... |
Literary responses | Ruth Pitter | Belloc
's preface quotes a passage from RP
and compares it with lines by Rudyard Kipling
and by Edith Sitwell
to argue Pitter's superiority to either of these distinguished poets in the classical spirit. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1318 (5 May 1927): 316 |
Literary responses | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
feared her brother
would dislike this book because of his unworldliness, his unawareness of his own fame, and his remoteness from contemporary reality. With the public, however, it was an immediate success, and sold... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Joanna Cannan | Alison Dunbar, lonely among her fashion-conscious and shopping-mad schoolmates, begins writing her pony story in exercise books (as was Cannan's own habit) and attains the apotheosis of acceptance by a publisher. She also sheds the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | May Cannan | Soon MC
was once again, as during the war, writing not for herself alone but for a group. Women Demobilized, July 1919 deals with women whose men have been killed. It ends: Now in our... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Wendy Cope | The Muse Strikes Back does not show WC
answering in anger. Her poem to John Clare
(written for the John Clare Society
) is a celebration and a declaration of kinship: Awake in the early... |
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