Athenæum. J. Lection.
3221 (20 July 1889): 87
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Textual Production | Laurence Alma-Tadema | As translator of Maeterlinck
, LAT
signed (with Yeats
, Meredith
, Swinburne
, Hardy
, Arthur Symons
, Lucas Malet
, |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mathilde Blind | In 1849, the year of his marriage, he was despatched to Paris to represent the newly formed German republican government . Following the collapse of the revolution, he became a political refugee in Belgium, and... |
Friends, Associates | Mathilde Blind | Other important friends include Dr Louis Mond
, the American Moncure Conway
(who had lost a position at Harvard
for preaching against slavery), Richard Garnett
(who began calling her by her first name in 1870)... |
Reception | Mathilde Blind | Again, however, the Athenæum had a reservation: this time the influence of Swinburne
, which it detected in alliteration and other points of technique. Athenæum. J. Lection. 3221 (20 July 1889): 87 |
Literary responses | Mathilde Blind | The article brought her some prominence. Swinburne
found the new readings most precious. Swinburne, Algernon Charles. The Swinburne Letters. Editor Lang, Cecil Y., Yale University Press. 2: 116 |
Education | Ann Bridge | As a small child she stood out among the family for her quite exceptional naughtiness, which in later years she put down to surplus energy and dramatic ideas. Bridge, Ann. A Family of Two Worlds. Macmillan. 141 |
Literary responses | Emily Brontë | This bowdlerized version of EB
's novel and her poetry circulated widely and received many reviews. H. F. Chorley
in the Athenæum pronounced the re-publication of the two novels an illustration of English female genius... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The poem is innovative in its blend of novelistic discourse and subject-matter—its depiction of the urban landscape and contemporary social issues including wife-beating and prostitution were indebted to both the English and French novel—with the... |
Occupation | Robert Williams Buchanan | RWB
was a poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright. After arriving in London in 1859, he was engaged by the Athenæum. He wrote for several other periodicals, and became known for his attacks on Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Textual Features | Willa Cather | A. S. Byatt
finds in this volume a mournful Arcadian tone, thinly ecstatic, and owing much to Swinburne
and Housman
. Byatt, A. S., and Willa Cather. “Introduction”. A Lost Lady, Virago, p. v - xiv. v |
Occupation | Marie Corelli | Charles MacKay
, now finding it difficult to write, became increasingly pressed to procure a healthy income. Fortunately, one of his physicians was impressed with MC
's piano-playing and he offered his drawing-room for a... |
Friends, Associates | Ella Hepworth Dixon | EHD
considered William Heinemann
, her publisher, as also a close personal friend. Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson. 51, 77, 187 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ella Hepworth Dixon | In a chapter devoted to Some Women Writers she praises, among others, Sheila Kaye-Smith
, Margaret Kennedy
(particularly for The Constant Nymph), Elizabeth von Arnim
, and Violet Hunt
. Authors who receive whole... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sara Jeannette Duncan | The novel concerns an American writer, Elfrida Bell, from Sparta, Illinois, who is seen as a product of the fin-de-siècle. Her role as a francophile who champions the poetry of Rossetti
and Swinburne
places... |
Literary responses | George Eliot | On the whole reviewers were enthusiastic (E. S. Dallas
began his notice in the Times, George Eliot is as great as ever Carroll, David, editor. George Eliot: The Critical Heritage. Barnes and Noble. 131 |