Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research.
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Textual Production | Josephine Tey | This play was considerably less successful than Richard of Bordeaux, and ran for only a few weeks. Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research. 10: 141 |
Literary responses | Flora Annie Steel | An early study of FAS
's writings was A Star of India by Daya Patwardhan
, complete with a bibliographical list of her works and investigation of her real-life sources. Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann. 69 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Robins | ER
used her travels in Alaska as a basis for several short stories and adventure novels. One story, Monica's Village, parodies Rider Haggard
's popular adventure novel She. John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge. 131-2 |
Literary responses | E. Nesbit | When EN
asked Bernard Shaw
to review the first Lays and Legends for To-Day, he responded with a pretend review contained in a letter, a masterpiece in faint praise: The author has a fair... |
Education | Elma Napier | In spite of the fact that her family did not value literature as much as games, and that her mother had specific ideas about what girls should read, EN
devoured every book she could get... |
Textual Production | L. T. Meade | She gave up her editorship only when other writing commitments and her growing children made it impossible to continue. During those six years she used to eat breakfast at half past seven, receive her first... |
Education | Olivia Manning | At home Olivia was encouraged to love poetry, learned to read by the time she was four, and was later subjected to piano lessons which taught her nothing. As a teenager and thinking of herself... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Olivia Manning | |
Literary responses | Elspeth Huxley | British Book News considered that EH
had drawn to good effect on an intimate knowledge of African landscape, politics, and race issues and displayed great narrative skill, though a little lacking in psychological subtlety. British Book News. British Council. (1957): 451 |
Education | Stella Gibbons | SG
learned to read fairly late, but then read voraciously. The glowing Eastern landscapes and brilliant figures Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury. 20 |
Literary responses | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | In the TLSE. E. Mavrogordato
pronounced The Lost Worlda glorious story; he had enjoyed nothing of this kind so much, he wrote, since H. Rider Haggard
's She, 1887. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 562 (17 October 1912): 443 |
Textual Production | Florence Dixie | When H. Rider Haggard
published his Beatrice, A Novel, he received a long letter from FD
criticising the book as sexist. Roberts, Brian. Ladies in the Veld. John Murray. 178-9 |
politics | Florence Dixie | According to Brian Roberts
, FDoriginated the scheme for providing seaside holiday camps for poor children. She opposed cruelty to animals, blood-sports (which she had once enjoyed), and vivisection. She supported Rationalism, dress reform... |
Literary responses | Florence Dixie | Her most vociferous opponents now included John Robinson
, editor of the Natal Mercury (who chose to interpret her as a mere mouthpiece for Bishop Colenso
), and in time most of the British Tory... |
Textual Production | Mary Angela Dickens | MAD
wrote frequently for The Windsor Magazine, interviewing authors for it at the turn of the century. In a study of the magazine's issues of the early 1910s, Robert Scholes
argues that the presence... |