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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Laurence Alma-Tadema | LAT
provided several introductions to works for children. One of these was for a new edition of Robert Louis Stevenson
's A Child's Garden of Verses, 1927, illustrated by Kate Elizabeth Olver
, Here... |
Textual Production | Beryl Bainbridge | She later said the non-realism of this tale had dissatisfied her. She acknowledged the influence on it of Dickens
and Robert Louis Stevenson
, and then judged that the best bits . . . have... |
Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
's His Good Fairy, from the Illustrated London News of 28 May 1894, features a grand duchess of low origin who staves off guilt-induced madness by returning to live as a peasant and... |
Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | By the time of her death, MEB
's novels had received praise from many great writers of her day, including George Moore
, Arnold Bennett
, Robert Louis Stevenson
and Thomas Hardy
. Her astonishingly... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Carswell | CC
's father, George Gray Macfarlane
, had worked as a young man in the Caribbean and the USA. He exported textiles to the West Indies and was president and a founder of the YMCA |
Textual Production | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | After hearing her read from this work while it was still in progress, Henry Newbolt
sent a draft to Robert Louis Stevenson
. Stevenson responded enthusiastically but was not sure how the author could get... |
Textual Production | Lettice Cooper | LC
published with Home and Van Thal
a volume in their English Novelists series: Robert Louis Stevenson: in 1967 it was reprinted in an European Novelists Series. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. TLS Archive (11 October 1947): 518 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Monica Dickens | MD
published her first book since she married, the novel No More Meadows, titled from a chilling remark about marriage by Robert Louis Stevenson
. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Dickens, Monica. An Open Book. Heinemann. 130 |
Textual Production | E. A. Dillwyn | EAD
contributed to The Spectator (edited by her father's friend R. H. Hutton
) during the 1880s and 90s, writing nearly sixty anonymous reviews for it. She was among the first to praise Robert Louis Stevenson |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | In Through the Magic DoorSACD
wrote of those authors whom he felt to have been his most important influences, including Froissart
, Boswell
, Walter Scott
, Thomas Babington Macaulay
, Carlyle
, Melville |
Reception | Carol Ann Duffy | The year following her Selected Poems, CAD
won the Lannan Literary Award in the USA, and her work was included in the second volume of Penguin Modern Poets. A decade after that,... |
Literary responses | George Eliot | Ashton suggests that GE
anticipated the case made in Theodor Herzl
's The Jewish State, 1896. The first Jewish readers of the novel were delighted and impressed both by GE
's deep knowledge and... |
Literary responses | Eleanor Farjeon | British Book News announced that this book gives Eleanor Farjeon a permanent place of honour between Stevenson
and Walter de la Mare
. British Book News. British Council. (1952): 122 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Forster | This examines the lives of Mary Livingstone (mid-Victorian daughter of a missionary in Africa, who married the more famous missionary David Livingstone
, a colleague and protégé of her father), Fanny Stevenson (late Victorian... |