Here Bryher's marks were below average and she felt great scorn for her headmistress, Miss Chudleigh, who informed Bryher that her chief educational goal was [t]o turn out the greatest number of girls conforming to...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Butts
Like Eliot's poem, MB
's novel is a modern rendition of the Grail quest, influenced by Jessie Weston
's From Ritual to Romance. In her journal Butts praised Weston for her ability to bring...
Intertextuality and Influence
T. S. Eliot
In the first of his notes Eliot indicated that Jessie Weston
's From Ritual to Romance was a major influence, together with the legend of the Holy Grail.
Reception
Edna O'Brien
EOB
won the 1970 Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award for this novel.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes.
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In her monograph on O'Brien, Grace Eckley
compares aspects of its narrative with the patterns outlined by scholar Jessie Weston
