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Literary Setting | Sara Maitland | SM
's topic here is sexuality in relation to a life vowed to celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church
. Her protagonist, Sister Anna, is a missionary nun in Latin America. She is in... |
Literary Setting | Virginia Woolf | Jacob's Room is often said to be the first of VW
's fictional recreations of her brother Thoby (the others being The Waves and A Sketch of the Past). Hermione Lee calls the work... |
Literary responses | Ann Hatton | In 1905 a writer in the South Wales Evening Post said he had survived reading all of AH
's novels in the British Library
. In The Herald of Wales in 1939 another said they... |
Literary responses | Judith Cowper Madan | |
Literary responses | Frances Isabella Duberly | Alan Palmer
, in his Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry on Duberly, remarks on her ready pen, eyes perceptive to detail, youthful self-confidence, and an incisive style softened by candid pathos.He finds her... |
Literary responses | Mary Julia Young | An apparently contemporary hand wrote in the British Library
copy: Rubbish. |
Literary responses | Margaret Fell | This style (moderate as it is by the standards of MF
's own community) provoked tetchiness in a former owner of the copy now in the British Library
(G14297), who wrote a long and indignant... |
Leisure and Society | Lady Jane Cavendish | Someone addressed a poem of compliment to the child LJC
(now Harleian MS 4955, ff, 86-7 in the British Library
). Millman, Jill Seal, and Gillian Wright, editors. Early Modern Women’s Manuscript Poetry. Manchester University Press. 88 |
Leisure and Society | Charlotte Guest | Lady CG
enjoyed cultured activities like the theatre and the opera throughout her life. Reading Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë
in December 1850 she thought it singular . . . written with force but coarseness, and not of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catharine Macaulay | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Meteyard | Dedicated by permission to William Gladstone
, The Life of Josiah Wedgwood provides a full history of pottery in Britain, beginning with the Celts and Romans. Lightbown, Ronald W., and Eliza Meteyard. “Introduction”. The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, Cornmarket Press. |
Health | Anne Docwra | In her pamphlet dated 11 April 1699, AD
wrote that, through Mercy, I can walk the Streets to visit the Sick, and my Friends and Relations also, and can see without Spectacles still. Docwra, Anne. The Second Part of an Apostate-Conscience Exposed. 16 This... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Harkness | Probably through sisters Kate Potter Courtney
(whose house Harkness often stayed at) and Beatrice Potter (later Webb)
, MH
began to associate with the intellectuals who frequented the Reading Room of the British Museum
... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Margaretta Larpent | In 1776 the future AML
recorded meeting the Corsican patriot Paoli
and Dr Johnson
ye Great. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Friends, Associates | Amy Levy | AL
became a member of a circle of reforming or socialist women who were mostly regulars in the ladies' lunch room at the British Museum
. Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press. 79 |
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