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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Education | Edna St Vincent Millay | Three years after her highschool graduation, doors suddenly opened for ESVM
to go to college, although her preparation had not reached the standard generally demanded. Donors offered to support her at Vassar College
(through Caroline B. Dow |
Literary responses | Edna St Vincent Millay | Her editor Eugene Saxton
wrote that the staff at Harper
were much moved by the emotional quality of the poems. Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House. 450 |
Education | Christian Milne | So keen was the child on her school-learned skills that she kept a piece of broken slate Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Letters from the North Highlands, During the Summer 1816. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 58 |
Education | L. M. Montgomery | LMM
saved enough money to attend Dalhousie University
in Halifax, Nova Scotia. for one year, 1895-1896, where her studies included Milton
and Carlyle
. She wrote for the school newspaper and joined a literary... |
Textual Production | Susanna Moodie | The title, from the close of Milton
's Paradise Lost, refers to the world as Adam and Eve see it when, driven from Paradise, they must choose their own new home. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah More | The title-page quotation from Paradise Lost features the archangel Raphael's pronouncement that it is better for human beings to know That which before us lies in daily life than things remote. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary More | MM
believes that she is saying something new and not commonly known when she argues that male power over women has grown gradually by unjust laws. She sets out by quoting from and commenting on... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Murray | Frances Milton never blames her father for his unkindness; she still owes him total gratitude and devotion, which she seems to regard as on a par with our debt of love and gratitude to God... |
Textual Production | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | Her own essay here is Obscure and Giddy Sects: Milton
and the Scandal of Divorce. |
Textual Features | Caroline Norton | Opening in Milton
ic tones of high seriousness but in Spenser
ian stanzas, the poem offers up childhood as the last echo of Eden spared to humanity after the fall. The sustained trope is that... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Kathleen Nott | Here KN
writes a lively style, with ingenious images and examples, paradoxes like giving a name a bad dog (by which she means taking a concept like Liberalism or Science and using it pejoratively), Nott, Kathleen. The Emperor’s Clothes. Heinemann. 43 |
Reception | Mary Oxlie | This work listed MO
as one of its Women among the moderns eminent for poetry. Phillips, nephew and pupil of John Milton
, seems quite interested in the existence of women poets. Others in his... |
Literary responses | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | The Spectator review commented that in not a few of the sonnets . . . there are flights of imagination, to our minds, of which almost the greatest of English sonnet-writers might, and possibly would... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katherine Philips | KP
's maternal grandfather, Daniel Oxenbridge
, was a physician with an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Her uncle John Oxenbridge was a friend of Milton
and Marvell
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Daniel Oxenbridge Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Features | Katherine Philips | In some sense, therefore, she dictated the terms of the anthology. Its full title was The Virgin Muse: Being a Collection of Poems from our Most Celebrated English Poets, designed for the use of... |
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