Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press.
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Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | A BBC
broadcast about Victorian women hymn-writers in 2003 offered the unequivocal opinion that the question opening the poem's ultimate stanza—What shall I bring him, poor as I am?—is not simply an expression... |
| Literary responses | Penelope Shuttle | Rosemary Dinnage
in a Times Literary Supplement review contrasted contemporary openness about childbirth with the continuing block on mentioning menstruation. She cited a recent example in which Margaret Drabble
had mentioned the subject on BBC |
| Literary responses | Frances Bellerby | |
| Literary responses | Harriett Mozley | Critic Kathleen Tillotson
gave a talk on the BBC
Third Programme entitled Newman's Sister Harriett and The Fairy Bower. Neither this nor her essay published in 1965 produced any revival of scholarly interest in HM
. Tillotson, Kathleen et al. “Harriett Mozley”. Mid-Victorian Studies, Athlone Press, pp. 38-48. 38 |
| Literary responses | Ethel Wilson | The reviews in England were positive. Seán O'Faoláin
wrote in the BBC
journal the Listener that The Equations of Love exemplified how English ought to be written, and called EWone of the most charming... |
| Literary responses | Dodie Smith | The book was immediately popular. Noel Streatfeild
chose it as her Book of the Month in Young Elizabethan magazine, and Foyle's Children's Book Club
bought 20,000 copies. Reviews were glowing: the Times Literary Supplement described... |
| Literary responses | Frances Burney | FB
never disappeared from literary consciousness to the same extent as many of her female contemporaries, but she was usually treated with condescension. Austin Dobson
published a life of her in 1903 in Macmillan
's... |
| Literary responses | Sylvia Pankhurst | The book was well received, and enhanced SP
's reputation with the general public. George Bernard Shaw
praised it in a speech on the BBC
in which he compared SP
to Joan of Arc
... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | The translation's appearance in print was greeted with a programme on BBC News Oxford
. “Elizabeth Tanfield Cary 1598 translation published”. BBC News Oxford. |
| Literary responses | Virginia Woolf | Orlando continues to arouse strong positive and negative feeling. Jeanette Winterson
's celebration of it in July 2002 (on a BBC2
programme entitled Art That Shook the World) as one of the great turning... |
| Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Leonard Woolf's decision proved a mistake. The book was not only praised to the skies by young, advanced reviewers, but also made the secondary Book of the Month for May by the newly-formed Book Society |
| Literary responses | Catherine Byron | In a positive review for BBC
Radio Ulster, Sean Rafferty
identified this work not only as autobiography and literary criticism, but also as a piece of travel-writing: I expected a critical academic tome. What I... |
| Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Elizabeth Taylor
detailed the interest that attended this book's appearance. Published on a Monday, it was broadcast as a radio play on Wednesday, discussed on radio on Thursday by Daniel George
(who called the author... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
's idea for an Imaginary Conversation among characters from Proust came originally from a suggestion by Rayner Heppenstall
in about 1947 for a BBC
broadcast. She was delighted with the quality of the original... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Liz Lochhead | LL
's contributions included a parody of the country song Stand by Your Man (And if you love him / Be proud of him / 'Cause after all he's Jist a Man) Lochhead, Liz. True Confessions and New Clichés. Polygon Books. 65 |
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