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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Textual Production | Ada Leverson | AL
wrote to T. S. Eliot
(editor of The Criterion) offering him an essay on Wilde
, something on Proust
, and a short story, The Consultation. Wyndham, Violet. The Sphinx and Her Circle: A Biographical Sketch of Ada Leverson 1862-1933. A. Deutsch. 93 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ada Leverson | AL
's three sisters all married socially prominent Jewish husbands. Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne. 19 Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago. 239-40 |
politics | Ling Shuhua | In mid-1938, LS and her family left Wuhan, by then under frequent bombing by the Japanese, for the town of Leshan (where many members of Wuhan University
fled). LS's reading included Proust
's Swann's... |
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... |
Publishing | Tillie Olsen | Tillie Lerner, later TO
, was nineteen when she began drafting a novel, and writing it was an element in her life for thirty years. In 1934 Bennett Cerf
and Donald Klopfer
, founders of... |
Textual Production | Harold Pinter | Pinter's screenplay for Proust
's A la recherche du temps perdu (undertaken for his close cinema associate Joseph Losey
) was never made as a film. It was, however, published in 1972, and was later... |
Textual Features | Ann Quin | It was about a homosexual, though at the time I had never met one, knew very little about queers (maybe I had read something on Proust
?). Quin, Ann. “Leaving School—XI”. London Magazine, Vol. new series 6 , pp. 63-8. 66 |
Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | In a letter of 1952, Richardson comments that she would have willingly, delightedly translated Le temps retrouvé, the last volume of Proust
's A la recherche du temps perdu, after the translator of... |
Literary responses | Dorothy Richardson | Pilgrimage and its author have been grouped with various other writers and literary methods, particularly with Virginia Woolf
, James Joyce
, and Marcel Proust
, who set out to explore and record linked elements... |
Reception | Dorothy Richardson | DR
first read Proust
(Swann's Way) in December 1922. She devoted much time to her reading and thinking about Proust, and relished his writing for being a thousand things at once, with the... |
Literary responses | Dorothy Richardson | The first reviewer, in the Sunday Observer, found DR
's narrative strategy extraordinary, but remarkably clear. He noted that her leaving the reader without explanations or apologies was not in the least troubling or... |
Literary responses | Dorothy Richardson | Some of Richardson's readers considered that she, like Joyce
, focused more than necessary on the seamier details of life. Reviewers were not altogether impressed by this novel. Reviewing Richardson again in the Athenæum in... |
Literary responses | Dorothy Richardson | Happily for Richardson, reviews were positive. Reviewers praised her artistry and adventurousness, and compared her favourably with Proust
. Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press. 257 |
Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | She was invited to write for the magazine by John Middleton Murry
, who founded it in 1923, though both he and Katherine Mansfield
had published negative reviews of earlier volumes of Pilgrimage. Richardson, Dorothy. Windows on Modernism: Selected Letters of Dorothy Richardson. Editor Fromm, Gloria G., University of Georgia Press. 41-2, 90, 212 |
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