Williams-Ellis divided her text into five sections according to audience, respectively written For All, For Philosophers, For Missionaries, For Critics, and For Readers. The last section consists of short studies...
Textual Production
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
One of EWW
's advice books, The Art of Being Alive: Success Through Thought, appeared, to be categorized a month later by Walter de la Mare
in the TLS as one more cursory manual...
Dedications
Edith Wharton
EW
published a volume of short stories entitled Certain People on 21 October 1930 (the same day of the year as two earlier publications).
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
21 October 2014
Her final collection of stories, Ghosts, appeared...
Yeats
found and valued in DW
's work both descriptive genius
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.
and passionate precision.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Sackville-West
's considered judgement was that Wellesley was undisciplined, and that the philosophic freight which Yeats admired in her work...
Publishing
Mary Webb
MW
's unfinished, final fiction, the historical novel, Armour Wherein He Trusted, was posthumously published one year after her death, with some short pieces.
Walter De la Mare
said of MW
's essays that only a loving rapture in the thing itself could have found words for an object so minute in terms so precise [and] poetic in effect.
Davies, Linda. Mary Webb Country. Palmers Press.
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Anthologization
Mary Webb
MW
wrote war poetry. The Lad Out There (whose title perhaps remembers Housman
) catches the tone of poems by women left behind and gives it a maternal flavour: So young he is, so dear...
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
The book evoked a chorus of praise. Walter de la Mare
wrote to Otto Kyllmann: She writes about poetry absolutely unknown to me, in a fashion that is in itself poetry.Kyllmann
wrote to HW
Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable.
116-17
Friends, Associates
Alison Uttley
By the time AU
's mentor, Professor Alexander,
died (deeply upset about Hitler's rule in Germany), she had met another father-figure and important friend, the poet Walter de la Mare
. She also developed friendships...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Alison Uttley
Secret Places included a perceptive essay on Walter de la Mare
.
Literary responses
Evelyn Underhill
In reviewing Theophanies for the Times Literary Supplement, Walter de la Mare
reported that in EU
's attempt to express the ineffable . . . her poems sometimes diffuse into rhapsody or harden (what...
Timeline
November 1925: Actress Ellen Terry gave her final stage...
Building item
November 1925
Actress Ellen Terry
gave her final stage performance in Walter de la Mare
's Crossings at the Lyric Theatre
in Hammersmith near London.
After February 1932: An appeal of Count Potocki of Montalk's case...
Writing climate item
After February 1932
An appeal of Count Potocki of Montalk
's case was heard; and although he was not cleared, an advance in obscene libel cases was made.
Texts
De la Mare, Walter. “Fiction. ‘An Old Wives’ Tale’”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 357, p. 403.
De la Mare, Walter. “Jane Oglander”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 479, p. 110.
De la Mare, Walter. “Miss Underhill’s Poems”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 770, p. 499.
De la Mare, Walter. “Poems in War-Time”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 702, p. 217.
De la Mare, Walter. “The Lodger”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 608, p. 364.
De la Mare, Walter. “When No Man Pursueth”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 423, p. 56.