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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Leonora Carrington | Helen Byatt
traces the quests of The Hearing Trumpet to texts the author encountered as a child, including the pre-Christian fairy tales and Celtic narratives shared by her nanny and maternal relatives along with Robert Graves |
Textual Production | Mona Caird | One of MC
's best-known novels appeared: The Daughters of Danaus (the first novel among the selection mentioned in the Times after her death, and reprinted by the Feminist Press
in 1989). In Greek mythology... |
Textual Production | Vera Brittain | Three of VB
's own poems appeared in the collection, which also included poems by Winifred Holtby
, Robert Graves
, Edmund Blunden
, L. P. Hartley
, Roy Campbell
, and Louis Golding
. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 156 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Vera Brittain | She originally planned to write a novel based on her wartime experiences, but in November 1929, after having read the war memoirs of Edmund Blunden
, Siegfried Sassoon
, and Robert Graves
, she began... |
Literary responses | Muriel Box | Its recent editors call it very much a beginner's piece of work with regard to dialogue and stage impact. Yet they feel it is valuable for exemplifying the way that feminist ideas survived and continued... |
Travel | Elizabeth Bishop | Laura Riding
was then resident on Mallorca with Robert Graves
. EB
was in Europe again in 1937, then not again until a visit to England in 1964, followed by three more, in 1966, 1976... |
Characters | Pat Barker | Barker opens with the text of Finished with the War, A Soldier's Declaration, issued in July 1917 by the writer Siegfried Sassoon
, one of her real-life characters. Barker, Pat. Regeneration. Viking-Penguin. 3, 71 |
Literary responses | Fleur Adcock | Reviewing The Inner Harbour for the Observer, Peter Porter
reported with satisfaction that Adcock was getting better and better. In Encounter, John Mole
likened her combination of fastidious classicism and violent phantasmagoric effect... |
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