Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | She read voraciously, preferring writers with the geographical rootedness which she herself lacked: George Eliot
, Thomas Hardy
, Charles Dickens
, and from beyond the English tradition Marcel Proust
, James Joyce
, Henry James |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ada Leverson | AL
's three sisters all married socially prominent Jewish husbands. Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973. 19 Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago, 1993. 239-40 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Stevenson | |
Fictionalization | Germaine de Staël | Benjamin Constant
, formerly the lover of GS
, represented her in his novel Adolphe as a woman whose mind was the most wide-ranging of any woman ever, and perhaps of any man, Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, pp. 12 -35. 26 |
Friends, Associates | Violet Trefusis | The Princesse
hosted a salon at 57 Avenue Henri-Martin attended by Anna de Noailles
, Cocteau
, Paul Valéry
, and Proust
, who incorporated some of his perceptions of the gatherings into A la... |
Friends, Associates | Vernon Lee | Back in Italy after the end of the First World War, VL
continued to read widely. She returned to Dante
, Shakespeare
, and Goethe
. She introduced herself to newer writings on philosophy, science... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | Her omnivorous reading during the last year of her degree included the major modern novelists, notably including Proust
and Woolf
(the darling dangerous woman who made her feel quite incapable of writing anything straight... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Brookner | Again the protagonist, Kitty Maule, has a mixed national heritage: French/Russian and English. Again she is emotionally impoverished though academically successful; again she falls in love with a charismatic and unattainable man, Maurice Bishop. His... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Brookner | The daughter has found a notebook after her mother's death, but it contains very little information. Her opening sentence fully reveals the inadequacy of her knowledge. My mother read a lot, sighed a lot, and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Pamela Hansford Johnson | The novelist-narrator, Christine Jackson (whom PHJ
says she based on herself), looks back from the present day on her young life in Clapham in the 1920s. Her work as a shorthand-typist, her aspirations to be... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Pamela Hansford Johnson | Each takes as its central character a personage from Proust
, and for each PHJinvents a fresh yet perfectly harmonious setting for the scene: thus Mme Verdurin is shown entertaining the Germans in 1941... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Desai | AD
's work weaves together a wide range of cultural and literary references: the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgîtâ, as well as such European authors as E. M. Forster
, T. S. Eliot
, Dickinson |
Literary responses | Christina Stead | In 1963 Eldon Branda
produced a dramatised version which Stead liked, but which was not produced. Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg, 1995. 445 |
Literary responses | Natalie Clifford Barney | Marcel Proust
, in the final stages of writing Sodome et Gomorrhe, read Pensées d'une Amazone and initiated correspondence with NCB
, hoping to learn more about lesbianism. Telling her that her book was... |
Literary responses | Gertrude Stein | GS
was disappointed at the small enthusiasm the book generated when it was published. Only Marianne Moore
reviewed it favourably. Katherine Anne Porter
despaired of its length and density, but argued that to shorten it... |