Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Roxburghe Lothian | |
| Literary responses | Ethel Wilson | Negative reviews seemed to repeat Macmillan
's original worry that the collection was half-cooked. Aunt Topaz was characterized by the Canadian Forum as a terrible bore, whom the reviewer found almost as tiresome to... |
| Literary responses | Evelyn Waugh | Most reviews were mocking in tone, in keeping with the late image of Waugh as a kind of Colonel Blimp. Philip Larkin
wrote that to be one of his correspondents one would have to have... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Elstob | George Hickes
had strongly supported the forthcoming edition. He thought Elstob's work the most correct I ever saw or read,and that her edition will be of great advantage to the Church of England
against... |
| Literary responses | Willa Cather | Michael Williams
in The Commonweal called this book a wonderful demonstration of the artist's power, in that Cather had steeped her story in Roman Catholic
spirituality as no Catholic American writer could have done. Cather, Willa. On Writing. Editor Tennant, Stephen, Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. 13 |
| Literary responses | George Douglas | |
| Literary responses | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | Reviewer Camille-Yvette Welsch
read this poem as an allegory of the uneasy bonds joining pagan with Christian, Catholic
with Protestant
. Welsch, Camille-Yvette. “New Irish poets”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol. xx , No. 9, June 2003, pp. 17-18. 18 |
| Literary responses | Hannah Lynch | Blackwood's Magazine introduced the serialization of this book with a half-promise of its being a clef: It is, we believe, the faithful narrative of an actual experience, the work of a powerful writer whose identity... |
| Literary responses | Monica Furlong | Ruth McCurry
in the Times Literary Supplement found this biography at once accurate and sympathetic. Saint Thérèse, said McCurry, could have been shown as a victim either of nineteenth-century provincial French society, or of an... |
| Literary Setting | Monica Furlong | This short novel, a blend of fairytale, adventure story, didacticism, the occult, and a study of an orphan finding herself, is set in the seventh century in the kingdom of Dalriada (now the Isle of... |
| Literary Setting | Sarah Pearson | First the son, Lord Bellton, gives the medallion to his mistress before leaving on the Grand Tour, but it is thrown away and makes another picaresque progress through the hands of a French military commander... |
| Literary Setting | Frances Brooke | This novel is best known for its picture of settler or habitant life in Lower Canada, which FB
drew from her own years there. From a tourist point of view Lower Canada is idyllic... |
| Literary Setting | Margaret Holford | The Conspirator is historical, dealing with Sir Everard Digby
's participation in the Gunpowder Plot of 5 November 1605, largely from the point of view of his wife. Mary, Lady Digby
, intensely sensitive and... |
| Literary Setting | May Laffan | The tale begins in August 1873, and concerns two middle-class, Catholic
families living in Dublin: the Carews and the O'Neils. Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT, 2005. 139 |
| Literary Setting | E. Nesbit | The short-story volume Something Wrong includes Man-Size in Marble, a ghost story set around the actual Brenzett Church in Romney Marsh. The Brenzett village website (in 2011) says that the church is worth... |
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