Charques, Richard Denis. “Admirer with a Notebook”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1992, p. 166.
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Textual Features | Ursula K. Le Guin | The essays here examine many of her own writing practices and her feelings and opinions about her art. As well as introductions to individual novels the book collects pieces with such intriguing titles as Why... |
Friends, Associates | Constance Garnett | In 1891 Edward Garnett brought home with him a Russian political exile, Felix Volkhovsky
, who encouraged CG
, then pregnant, to learn Russian. As a result of this friendship, she and Edward became acquainted... |
politics | Rosita Forbes | In 1934 she had a series of meetings with Stalin
at Moscow. Charques, Richard Denis. “Admirer with a Notebook”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1992, p. 166. 166 |
politics | Rosita Forbes | RF
's patriotism has been called in question, however, not so much because she spent much of the war in North America and the Caribbean, but because early in the war she chose to... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosita Forbes | She observes that she can write at first hand about most of the men who—to-day—are making war, or struggling to prevent it in three continents. Charques, Richard Denis. “Admirer with a Notebook”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1992, p. 166. 166 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosita Forbes | RF
published when Mussolini
had conquered and exiled Haile Selassie
, but before Queen Wilhelmina
had fled from home before the invading Nazis
, or Russia had switched sides and entered the war against Germany... |
Textual Production | Elaine Feinstein | EF
published Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova, an account taking in both Tsarist and StalinistRussia and extremes of wealth and poverty. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Blackwell |
Literary Setting | Elaine Feinstein | |
Textual Production | Anne Enright | Her research for this novel touched on many different nineteenth-century cultures. She read a study of French prostitutes and sex advice for young American couples. She read about dictators: accounts of Imelda
and Ferdinand Marcos |
politics | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | Belgian refugees descending on her Kentish village early in the First World War reminded EBO
of a plague of locusts, and though she says that everyone loved and pitied them, they were also delighted to... |
Literary responses | Helen Dunmore | In her review for the Guardian, Susanna Rustin
was resolutely not too impressed. She found the characters too black-and-white, and that the novel has little to say about the function of art. .... |
Residence | Phyllis Bottome | |
politics | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
's political activities included steady opposition to France's colonial war in Algeria, and lifelong support for socialism and feminism. Elaine Showalter
has written that SB
's feminist credentials stem from her writing, and... |
Literary responses | Simone de Beauvoir | The one-hundredth anniversary of SB
's birth, though marked with book publications, a tribute DVD series, and a three-day international symposium, was a controversial occasion. Sharp criticism in the French press centred mostly the... |
Fictionalization | Anne Askew | Knowledge of AA
's writing spread rapidly. The reactionary Stephen Gardiner
, Bishop of Winchester, complained on 6 June 1547 of the number of copies in circulation. Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press. xxviii-xxix |
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