At the behest of her friend Harriet Kiernan
, CE
took over as editor of—and frequent contributor to—the Christian Remembrancer Pocket Book in 1824. She continued this work until 1859.
WE
was an enthusiast for Basic English (a simplified form of the language which he favoured not only for exchanges among scientists and others from different language groups, but also as an introduction to the study of fully matured, complex, literary English). He also involved himself, with Humphrey Jennings
, Kathleen Raine
, Naomi Mitchison
, and others, in Mass-Observation
.
As an undergraduate at TCD, AE
had already worked in theatre, with companies like the Abbey
and Rough Magic Theatre
. After her MA degree she found work as a television producer with RTÉ
, the Irish national broadcaster. For four of her six years there she produced and directed the popular series Nighthawks.
Moloney, Caitriona. “Anne Enright (11 October 1962-)”. Twenty-first-Century British and Irish Novelists, Gale, 2003.
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Bracken, Claire, and Susan Cahill, editors. “Introduction”. Anne Enright, Irish Academic Press, 2011, pp. 1-12.
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She gave up her very good job, with a car and a lot of freedom to become a full-time writer embarking on her first novel.
Bracken, Claire, and Susan Cahill, editors. “An Interview with Anne Enright, August 2009”. Anne Enright, Irish Academic Press, 2011, pp. 13-32.
She was by all accounts an outstanding courtier, admired not only for her beauty but also for her style and wit (Freda Hast
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography quotes the word for her of a French visitor: rejouissante).
qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Back in England after the Restoration, the duchess was employed as a lady of the bedchamber by the queen dowager, Henrietta Maria
. For the whole of her adult life she was deeply involved in Court politics, working for this or that dynastic marriage or personal alliance, disgrace, or rehabilitation. She seems to have been in effect an intelligence agent and courier. Maureen E. Mulvihill
, the premier Ephelia scholar, calls her a clandestine character,
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “The Eureka! Piece in the Ephelia Puzzle: Book Ornaments in Attribution Research and a New Location for Rahir Fleuron 203 (Elzevier, 1896)”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, Vol.
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a quiet player in court machinations, as well as an amusing cross-dresser and gentlewoman duellist.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “’Butterfly’ of the Restoration Court: A Preview of Lady Mary Villiers, the New ’Ephelia’ Candidate”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, Vol.
After early success as a novelist, it began to seem impossible for ZF
to combine her three passions—feminism, left-wing politics . . . and novel-writing. She settled for work in journalism instead.
Fairbairns, Zoë et al., editors. More Tales I Tell My Mother. Journeyman, 1987.
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She has also worked as a teacher and an editor, and served as poetry editor of Spare Rib from 1978 to 1982.
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
In this capacity, she wrote, she returned 1,500 submitted manuscripts, which she says she did not reject but rather decided not to shortlist,
Fairbairns, Zoë et al., editors. More Tales I Tell My Mother. Journeyman, 1987.
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and hoped they would be published somewhere else.
Fairbairns, Zoë et al., editors. More Tales I Tell My Mother. Journeyman, 1987.
Mary Montgomerie Lamb (later known as VF
) made her professional entry into the world of literature under her birth name as the creator of etchings to illustrate a leaflet reprint at Worthing of Tennyson
's Mariana.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Like her sisters, CF
was a skilled painter and artist. She produced attractive character studies of people of the lower classes who were willing to sit for her, as well as socio-political caricature and a large romantic drawing titled The Genius of the Storm.
Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley, 1852, 3 vols.
She also began collecting a remarkable library of more than four hundred books, lavishly bound and bearing her bookplate. These are now mostly at the Library Company of Philadelphia
, though some are scattered.
The lack of support from her family forced her to seek an income elsewhere, and instead of returning to the badly-paid occupation of needlework, she began writing columns (for which she was paid a pittance) for Boston papers the True Flag and The Olive Branch.
Having had his first play produced in February 1728 and gone on to achieve some success in the difficult metier of London playwright, HF
became manager of the Little Theatre
in the Haymarketbecause that was the only way he could get his work performed.
Hume, Robert D. Henry Fielding and the London Theatre, 1728-1737. Clarendon, 1988.
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This phase of his career (during which he employed Eliza Haywood
and Charlotte Charke
as performers) was brought to an abrupt end by the Licensing Act of 21 June 1737.
SF
declined an invitation to work as a governess to the young daughter of Anne Dewes
(sister of Mary Delany
).
Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford, 1998.
CF
appears to have loved travelling for its own sake (for the movement, variety, and sense of freedom). She was also deeply interested in the world, particularly in human industry (in both senses of the word) and artefacts, in mining, in drainage projects and in manufacturing processes. She had a strong sense of the public good, and delighted in improvements and modern conveniences.
Fiennes, Celia. “Editorial Note and Introduction”. The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes, edited by Christopher Morris, Macdonald; Webb and Bower, 1982, pp. 8-31.
EFG
published his first poem anonymously in the Athenæum and another periodical in 1831. He wrote strictly as an amateur, appearing in print sparingly (though in a wide range of genres) and always anonymously, feeling that his critical standards were higher than the general level of his own achievement. I think unless a man can do better, he had best not do at all He was about fifty when he published the poem that in course of time was to make him famous, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
One of the great practioners of literary realism, he shifted the European novel significantly towards naturalism. His influence ranged far, from literary friends such as Émile Zola
to writers in English, including Mary Elizabeth Braddon
(who published an adaptation of his Madame Bovary), and the US francophile Gertrude Stein
.
Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company, 1996.
In the first year of the Irish Free State (set up by the British parliament in March 1922), WBY became a member of the Irish Senate, a post he held until 1928.10
She eked out a living by writing for periodicals: she said she earned less with her pen than she would if she had been a greengrocer, or a servant skilled with a mop. She considered seeking a job as a humble companion, but dropped this idea as soon as there was any prospect of writing work, no matter how unsatisfactory.
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
The marriage seems to have fostered CFT
's vocation as a writer. Her husband's connection with R. H. Hutton
, editor of The Spectator, meant there was a steady stream of books for reviewing. As she records it: In our leisure hours at Wimpole we read and wrote a great deal, as well as giving each other some coveted book on birthdays and anniversaries.
Fraser-Tytler, Christina. A Shepherd of the Sheep. Longmans, Green, 1916.
Frazer was a classicist and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
(his own college) when his interest in anthropology and the study of ancient religions was first awakened.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.