Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Valentine Ackland | She was born into a wealthy, upper-middle-classEnglish family. Her childhood in London was fashionable, with riding in Rotten Row and shopping at Selfridge's
department store opposite the family house in Brook Street. She wore... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Angela Carter | Her mother, Olive (Farthing) Stalker
, came from a coal-mining district in south Yorkshire. She won a scholarship to a grammar school (from which she emerged speaking more correct English than her own mother) |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Hilary Mantel | HM
has written that everything she teaches, in good faith, about how to write fiction is untrue, or at least is fabulation. Really, she says, the process is beyond decision or control.If she is compelled... |
| Publishing | E. Nesbit | H. R. Millar
did another set of illustrations for the book, somewhat derivative of those of Pryse. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987. 343 |
| Textual Features | Ann Bridge | In it she hit at once on the blend of elements which was to make her popular: travelogue (she had a prodigious visual memory) and psychology, portraying isolated diplomats and their views on the Chinese... |
Timeline
1877: Using proceeds won at horse racing, Mr James...
Building item
1877
Using proceeds won at horse racing, Mr James Rosebery Smith
set up a Bon Marché
in Brixton; this was the first English enterprise set up explicitly as a department store.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
169-71
1877: Using proceeds won at horse racing, Mr James...
Building item
1877
Using proceeds won at horse racing, Mr James Rosebery Smith
set up a Bon Marché
in Brixton; this was the first English enterprise set up explicitly as a department store.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
169-71
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