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Textual Features | Q. D. Leavis | QDL
's review constitutes a personal and professional attack on Woolf, based primarily on three fronts: education, domesticity, and class. A footnote asserts that Woolf commenting on women's institutional education is voicing an opinion on... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Elstob | Her letter, addressed to her prebendary uncle, Charles Elstob
, mentions her deference to his judgement, and the favour she has received from both Oxford
and Cambridge Universities
. Female modesty, she says, prevents her... |
Textual Features | Ménie Muriel Dowie | In what critic Carolyn Christensen Nelson
considers one of the most humorous of the New Woman novels on marriage to appear during the 1890s, Nelson, Carolyn Christensen. British Women Fiction Writers of the 1890s. Twayne Publishers. 55 |
Textual Features | Beatrice Harraden | They wanted, they said, to build up and develop in the very heart of the British Empire the opportunities offered to all women students of all nations. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (29 March 1906): 8 |
Textual Features | Georgiana Craik | In this novel Hugh Ludlow, handsome, healthy, and the only son of a rich man, whose fortune he would of course inherit Craik, Georgiana. Two Women. R. Bentley and Son. 1: 5 |
Textual Features | Mary Jones | Between poems and letters come essays, of which the first contains a fantasy in which a woman studies in the Bodleian Library
and gets an honorary degree from Oxford University
. Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press. 169 |
Textual Features | Margaret Forster | Like its rejected predecessor, it is based on recent actual experience. Morag Graham, who comes from an unsophisticated, working-class, northern background, has fixed her schoolgirl dreams and aspirations on entrance to Oxford
; she is... |
Textual Features | Anna Kavan | Let Me Alone is the book which introduces the orphan protagonist Anna Kavan, whose name the author later adopted as her persona. This novel of feminist protest is considered autobiographical, since Kavan's Aunt Lauretta is... |
Textual Features | Cecily Mackworth | Arriving in Israel just after a Jewish terrorist attack CM
reports how she found the streets of Jerusalem full of tense, trigger-happy young British soldiers. Gershon Agronsky
, editor of the Palestine Post, Mackworth, Cecily. The Mouth of the Sword. Routledge and K. Paul. 34 |
Textual Features | Seamus Heaney | In these lectures SH
again concerned himself closely with the poet's obligations to society and to humankind. The first lecture, from which the 1995 volume is titled, sets out to show how poetry's existence at... |
Textual Features | Joanna Cannan | High Table is an Oxford University
novel, whose protagonist, Theodore Fletcher, grows up a child in a loveless family and feels a sudden, blank dreariness which . . . swamped his mind, when, lying awake... |
Textual Features | Iris Murdoch | The novel is technically innovative: Murdoch composes several chapters entirely either of unattributed dialogue (at parties or social gatherings) or of letters which do not constitute a continued correspondence but, like the conversation, a cacophony... |
Textual Features | Gerard Manley Hopkins | |
Textual Features | Evelyn Waugh | The man who emerges as the white protagonist of the story, Basil Seal, is in trouble with his feckless, privileged circle at home, fed up and wanting to get away, when he is invited to... |
Textual Features | Jennifer Dawson | The title (not the one under which it was first submitted) strikingly anticipates that of Sylvia Plath
's The Bell Jar, 1963, with its image of an invisible barrier separating the protagonist from the... |
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