Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, p. 240 pp.
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Thomas à Becket
Standard Name: Becket, Thomas à
Used Form: Thomas a Becket
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Ridler | The new poems included Kirkwall 1942, about her wartime stay in Orkney, |
| Literary Setting | T. S. Eliot | Eliot depicts his protagonist, Becket
—the archbishop who was murdered at his own altar steps in Canterbury for following his conscience and disobeying his king
—less as a hero than as a tormented man who... |
| Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
saw herself as a professional dramatist, and in the tradition of that metier she was always alert for stories of distant origin, or forgotten or unfinished plays by others, which might be reworked for... |
| Textual Production | Helen Waddell | HW
never completed the work with which she hoped to crown her career as a scholar, a study of John of Salisbury
(who lived in the twelfth century and was a pupil of Abelard
... |
Timeline
1173: St Thomas's Hospital in London was dedicated;...
Building item
1173
St Thomas's Hospital
in London was dedicated; it may have originated in the infirmary of the Priory of St Mary Overy
in Southwark.
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