McConville, Brigid. “Born to write”. Mslexia, No. 32, pp. 9-12.
12
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Textual Production | Deborah Moggach | |
Textual Production | A. S. Byatt | ASB
continued her interest in Ovid
with Arachne, a literary essay, in Ovid Metamorphosed, edited by Philip Terry
in early 2000. Byatt, A. S. “Arachne”. Ovid Metamorphosed, edited by Philip Terry, Chatto and Windus, pp. 131-57. 131 |
Textual Production | Emmeline Pankhurst | The Fawcett Library
(now the Women's Library) in London houses the Suffrage archives, including many of EP
's papers. A sound recording about her, originally an Argo
long-playing record, contains a reminiscence by Sybil Thorndike |
Textual Production | Antonia Fraser | In 2012 AF
collaborated with Tanya Cooper
to publish through the National Portrait GalleryA Guide to Tudor and Jacobean Portraits. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Reception | Edith Sitwell | The National Portrait Gallery
in London held an exhibition of works on ES
and her twobrothers
, which more than 30,000 people attended. 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. |
Reception | Muriel Spark | In about 1984 the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
asked MS
to sit for her portrait for their collection, by Sandy Moffat
. Of the resulting painting MS
says: I was just a model for The... |
Reception | Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore | Three of Gillray
's cartoons of her are in the National Portrait Gallery
. |
Occupation | Sylvia Pankhurst | An oil portrait of Hardie by SP
hangs in the National Portrait Gallery
. Another, in chalk, is also extant. She produced at this time a self-portrait, also in the National Portrait Gallery, in which... |
Literary responses | Katherine Mansfield | |
Leisure and Society | Iris Murdoch | The painter Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
did a portrait of IM
in 1964, commissioned by St Anne's College
. Years later Tom Phillips
painted her for the National Portrait Gallery
, posed in front of Titian |
Leisure and Society | Jane Collier | JC
may have had her portrait painted. A mezzotint by J. Faber, Jr
, now in the National Portrait Gallery
, has been identified as her, but on very inadequate evidence. |
Leisure and Society | Mary Delany | |
Leisure and Society | Amelia B. Edwards | In Rome on her way to Egypt, ABE
was sculpted in marble by Percival Ball
. The sculpture is now in the National Portrait Gallery
in London. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Leisure and Society | George Eliot | Exhibited at the Royal Academy
in 1867 and now in the National Portrait Gallery
, this was said by those who knew GE
to be the best likeness of her. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 275 Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 378 The portrait may... |
Leisure and Society | Hester Lynch Piozzi | The National Portrait Gallery
lists twelve portraits of HLP
, dated 1781 to 1811 (though some of these derive from each other and a couple are conversation-piece prints). Sir Joshua Reynolds
painted her with her... |