Plumptre, Edward Hayes, and Sarah Williams. “Memoir”. Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse, Strahan, p. vii - xxxiii.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Williams | SW
read the poetry of George MacDonald
, Dora Greenwell
, and Algernon Charles Swinburne
, and commented on it in her letters. Plumptre, Edward Hayes, and Sarah Williams. “Memoir”. Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse, Strahan, p. vii - xxxiii. xxii |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sophie Veitch | Religious Novels and the Christian Ideal laments that religious novels so seldom put forward truly admirable patterns of life, but instead encourage phariseeism and self-satisfaction. SV
dissects with some disgust Ministering Children by Maria Louisa Charlesworth |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Tytler | ST
's literary friends by now included Dora Greenwell
, Ellen (Mrs Henry) Wood
, Anna Maria (Mrs S. C.) Hall
, and George MacDonald
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Maria Tucker | Marshall's prediction proved true: CMT
's audience disappeared as the Victorian age ended. However, the Dictionary of Literary Biography acknowledges that her successful introduction of imaginative richness into didactic literature influenced other authors and established... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | Other friends mentioned by her niece and biographer were Fredrika Bremer
, Anna Brownell Jameson
, Frances Power Cobbe
, Thomas Carlyle
, George MacDonald
, Lady Eastlake
, Elizabeth Rundle Charles
, Lady Martin |
Cultural formation | Hesba Stretton | |
Reception | E. Nesbit | EN
's books for children brought her extensive fan-mail from readers. She was conscientious about answering them, often in long letters discussing some moral problem such as the attempt to control one's temper. Some of... |
Friends, Associates | Edna Lyall | On her first visit to Norway, EL
met and embarked on what became a lifelong friendship with the Welsh renowned singer Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co. 67 |
Publishing | Edna Lyall | She was introduced to the publishers of this novel, Hurst and Blackett
, through the good offices of the writer George Macdonald
. Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co. 45 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amy Levy | Based on George MacDonald
's fairy-tale Double-Story, it concerns a princess who has everything except happiness. It is written with panache: the governess is named Girton
ia to signify the excellence of her education... |
Anthologization | Jean Ingelow | In 1960 Mopsa was included in To the Land of Fair Delight, a collection with an introduction by Noel Streatfeild
which also includes tales by G. E. Farrow
and George MacDonald
. In 1992... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eva Gore-Booth | Both in Italy for health reasons, EGB
and Esther Roper met at the Bordighera home of novelist George MacDonald
. Esther later recalled one of their first conversations: At once I was met by an... |
Education | Elinor Glyn | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | She preferred not to attach her name to her poems, thinking that using a pseudonym would ensure against bringing disgrace to her family name, which had been so illustrious for poetry. Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research. 79 Battersby, Christine. “Her Blood and His Mirror: Mary Coleridge, Luce Irigaray, and the Female Self”. Beyond Representation: Philosophy and Poetic Imagination, edited by Richard Eldridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 249-72. 254 |
Education | Angela Brazil | Her home, too, contributed importantly to her education. She drew, painted, and made serious, carefully-labelled collections of wild flowers, stones, shells, and seaweed. Her first book, encountered at home when she was five and a... |