Dawson, Jennifer. “Impressions of Iris Murdoch, Teacher, in 1951”. The Ship, Vol.
91
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Occupation | Iris Murdoch | Dawson later recalled her as blithe and insouciant about set-texts and exams, preferring to roam over philosophical and literary ideas from Plato
to Arthur Koestler
. Dawson, Jennifer. “Impressions of Iris Murdoch, Teacher, in 1951”. The Ship, Vol. 91 , pp. 52-3. 52 |
Intertextuality and Influence | E. Nesbit | The title, condensed from two lines in Wordsworth
's Ode on the Intimations of Immortality, alludes to the dimming and flattening of once-acute sensations. One of these poems says that Love can never be... |
Reception | Caroline Norton | Between the death of Southey
, the Poet Laureate, and the appointment of Wordsworth
as his successor, CN
wrote to the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel
, to request the position for herself. Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby. 220 |
Literary responses | Caroline Norton | The Athenæum pronounced in fairly sympathetic tones that this volume bore a pathetic and direct reference upon the position and fortunes of its writer, alluding to the bereavements enforced by inexorable laws that denied Norton... |
Literary responses | Amelia Opie | The Critical Review, which had praised AO
's earlier work, thought this novel equally well done, and that the description of the heroine's death could stand comparison with those of Richardson
's Clarissa or... |
Textual Features | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Her other topics include artists and male literary figures, including Carlyle
, Goethe
, Emerson
, and Shakespeare
. Fifteen poems in the collection are written about places, among them London, Birmingham, and... |
Education | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | |
Textual Features | Katherine Philips | The death of her infant son, probably in June 1655, drew from KP
two heart-rending poems, one formally entitled Epitaph. On Hector Phillips. At St Sith's Church, the other On the death of my... |
Literary responses | Laetitia Pilkington | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
wrote in her copy of the London reprint of LP
's Memoirs, as good Poetry as Pope
s [sic]. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, and Laetitia Pilkington. “Annotation”. The Memoirs of Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington. |
Reception | Laetitia Pilkington | Wordsworth
chose from her works eleven melancholy and religious couplets from Sorrow, for inclusion in his manuscript anthology presented to Lady Mary Lowther
at Christmas 1819. He omitted the later part of the poem... |
Literary responses | Jean Plaidy | Irish critic Colm Tóibín
, who at fourteen used to pretend to be the doomed, charismatic queen, feels that of all the many writers who have treated Mary in fiction, from Burns
, Wordsworth
... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Anne Porden | EAP
was projecting an essay periodical in 1815 (she had the first two numbers planned) when this long poem, written at sixteen, appeared. At about the same time she was reading Wordsworth'sRecluse and poems... |
Friends, Associates | Adelaide Procter | AP
's parents entertained a circle of well-known literary personages, including Leigh Hunt
, William Hazlitt
, Thomas Moore
, Wordsworth
, Tennyson
, Longfellow
, and Henry James
. Intimates of the household included... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Radcliffe | Anna Seward
, in letters which were to be published in AR
's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 221-2 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Kathleen Raine | KR
's father, George Raine
(the son of a coal-miner in County Durham, and a graduate of Durham University), was an English master and housemaster at the County High School in Ilford, a lover of... |
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