Eburne, Jonathan P., and Catriona McAra. “Introduction: Leonora Carrington and the international avant-garde”. Leonora Carrington and the international avant-garde, Manchester University Press, pp. 1-16.
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Education | Louisa May Alcott | She was also a great self-educator and took to reading everything from Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress to Hawthorne
's The Scarlet Letter (he was a family friend). She particularly admired Mary Wollstonecraft
and also warmed... |
Literary responses | Louisa May Alcott | A recent surge of interest has produced (as well as John Matteson
's and Eve LaPlante
's studies of LAM and her father and her mother) a monograph by Harriet Reisin
, 2009; a study... |
Textual Production | Matilda Betham-Edwards | |
Leisure and Society | Isa Blagden | IB
was fond of society life, had a wide circle of friends, and was noted for her hospitality. Her home at the Villa Brichieri, with its terraced garden overlooking Florence and the Arno, was... |
Textual Production | Christine Brooke-Rose | Here she examines Stephen Crane
, Nathaniel Hawthorne
, Ezra Pound
, and W. H. Auden
, as examples of the role and operation of poets or fiction writers who also produce criticism. |
Occupation | Leonora Carrington | LC
joined the Eburne, Jonathan P., and Catriona McAra. “Introduction: Leonora Carrington and the international avant-garde”. Leonora Carrington and the international avant-garde, Manchester University Press, pp. 1-16. 4 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Angela Carter | Carter attributes the idea for Love to Benjamin Constant
's nineteenth-century novel Adolphe. Linden Peach also notes intertextual references to Edgar Allan Poe
's poem Annabel Lee, and Nathaniel Hawthorne
's novel The Scarlet Letter. Peach, Linden. Angela Carter. St Martin’s Press. 59, 62-7 |
Publishing | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | Between 1900 and 1907 MEC
published ten poems in periodicals such as the Spectator. She contributed literary reviews to the Guardian, the Monthly Review, and (after 1902) the Times Literary Supplement... |
Friends, Associates | Camilla Crosland | CC
's friends and acquaintances were varying and numerous. In her youth the radical politician John Cartwright
was a neighbour. Her literary work as an adult led to the formation of a number of lasting... |
Education | Rebecca Harding Davis | Influenced by her mother's linguistic virtuosity and her father's storytelling and love of classic literature, Rebecca grew up well acquainted with early American history (whose evidence lay close at hand) and with the stories... |
Friends, Associates | Rebecca Harding Davis | She established a friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne
through an early, enthusiastic letter, in which she described the delight of her first encounters with his work. She nevertheless felt that he always stood somewhat aloof from... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rebecca Harding Davis | When it first appeared, RHD
's story met with wide critical acclaim and broad recognition from members of the American literary community. Davis, Rebecca Harding. “Biographical Introduction”. Life in the Iron Mills; or, the Korl Woman, edited by Tillie Olsen, The Feminist Press. 10 American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html. Olsen, Tillie. Silences. Virago. 117 |
Textual Features | Rebecca Harding Davis | She achieves this in Bits of Gossip in a series of scattered remembrances of my own generation which included vivid portraits of some of the most prominent men and women of the American nineteenth century... |
Literary responses | Fanny Fern | Besides being a best seller, Ruth Hall was well received by some critics, although Fern's gender frequently seemed central to their judgments. The Athenæum, noting the work's autobiographical elements, suggested that these could be... |
Occupation | Margaret Fuller | In the Conversations, Fuller covered topics including education, ethics, poetry, and the Classics, typically beginning with a lecture before a group discussion. Members paid for their attendance, and MF
was able to support herself and... |
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