Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Helen Waddell | Friends from HW
's time at Somerville
included Maude Clarke
, whom she had known as a child and whose Oxford position had been one of the incentives to go there, and archaelogist Helen Lorimer |
Literary responses | Helen Waddell | This book too brought many letters of praise: from Rose Macaulay
, Æ
, Walter de la Mare
, and Stanley Baldwin
. Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable. 116-17 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Waddell | Abelard figured in her imagination as her ideal man, and on at least one occasion she dreamed that she herself was Heloise
(as an abbess and an elderly woman after Abelard's death). Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable. 57-8, 220 |
Literary responses | Helen Waddell | HW
treasured a letter in which Michael Sadleir
responded to her novel, telling her he found it hard to write without hyperbole. Of course I expected great things, but nothing—nothing approaching what I found. It... |
Textual Features | Katharine Tynan | She limited her selection to Irish lyrical poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, excluding political poems and poems either derived from English or already well-known to English audiences. Her wide range of poets included... |
Literary responses | Katharine Tynan | At the start of her writing career, in 1885, KT
was revered as the next Catholic
woman poet to succeed Christina Rossetti
. She herself held firmly to this image even while her Parnellism and... |
Friends, Associates | Katharine Tynan | Among those who frequented KT
's salon were George Russell
(Æ), Irish Nationalist and Fenian leader John O'Leary
, Gaelic scholar and revivalist Douglas Hyde
(founder of the Gaelic League
, 1893), and George Sigerson |
Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Tynan | KT
later felt this was a very-much derived little volume. Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards. 103 Fallon, Ann Connerton. Katharine Tynan. Twayne. 37 Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards. 103 |
Literary responses | Katharine Tynan | George Russell
wrote KT
a complimentary letter in response to this volume: I don't know how you manage to keep so sunny all through . . . I would love to write cheerful poetry more... |
Textual Features | Katharine Tynan | They show increasing awareness of time and time's passing: in this volume KT
expresses regret for having missed, by her absence in England, the last moments of some of her Irish friends' lives. Nearly all... |
Intertextuality and Influence | P. L. Travers | Thanks to help from Æ
(George Russell
), PLT
published her first piece in The Irish Statesman, of which he was editor. Her poems and essays continued to appear there for five years. Demers, Patricia. P.L. Travers. Twayne. 8 |
Friends, Associates | P. L. Travers | Her first visit to Ireland proved crucial for the literary contacts it enabled her to make: Æ
(George Russell) and W. B. Yeats
. Æ, the editor of The Irish Statesman, became an important... |
Occupation | P. L. Travers | Her friend Æ
introduced her to the editor of this journal, A. R. Orage
. She also served as a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee, of which T. S. Eliot
too was a member. Demers, Patricia. P.L. Travers. Twayne. 31 Haggarty, Ben. “Refining Nectar”. A Lively Oracle: A Centennial Celebration of P.L. Travers, Creator of Mary Poppins, edited by Ellen Dooling Draper and Jenny Koralek, Published for the Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation by Larson Publications, pp. 19-24. 21 |
Publishing | P. L. Travers | For sixteen years from 1933, PLT
wrote for The New English Weekly, edited by A. R. Orage
(to whom her friend Æ
introduced her). Her work for this journal consisted primarily of drama criticism... |
Occupation | John Millington Synge | In September 1905, JMS
, along with Yeats
and Lady Gregory
, became directors of the company. George Russell
and Fred Ryan
were also administrators for the Irish National Theatre Society
. Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan. 11-12 Saddlemyer, Ann. “Introduction and Chronology”. The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge, Oxford University Press, p. ix - xxvi. xxiv Kiely, David M. John Millington Synge: A Biography. Gill and Macmillan. 156 |
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