Leonardi, Susan J. Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists. Rutgers University Press, 1989, 254 p.
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Education | Margaret Kennedy | As a student she sang in the Oxford Bach Choir
. Mozart
was then unfashionable, and Kennedy boldly defended him against the prejudice of the choir's director. Leonardi, Susan J. Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists. Rutgers University Press, 1989, 254 p. 55 |
Education | Vernon Lee | Violet also had several German and Swiss governesses. Marie Krebs Schülpbach
, who taught her at Thun in Switzerland when Violet stayed there in 1866-9, was especially influential: they read theGrimms
, Goethe
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Cowden Clarke | Vincent Novello
, MCC
's father, was a music teacher, choirmaster, composer, and music publisher, who played the organ for the Portuguese Embassy Chapel at South Street, Grosvenor Square, London, for twenty-six years. There... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Farjeon | The Two Bouquets, An Operetta sets out to be very Victorian and also to parody Mozart
's Marriage of Figaro. qtd. in Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae, 1986. 161 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elaine Feinstein | The range of allusion in these poems is extraordinarily wide although the tone is never pretentious. Gluttony is described as a ballad after the manner of Bert Brecht
. Feinstein, Elaine. Gold. Carcanet, 2000. 49 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | The book bears in various details the influence of Jane Austen
, though its overall project of pious didacticism is at odds with Austen's approach. The title-page quotes Rousseau
on the topic of the sensitive... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | The title poem alludes through its name to Mozart
's Magic Flute. Its protagonist, Catherine, nearly eighteen, is gently mocked for her literary aspirations: Her Poems good, if not surprising, / On Friendship, Death... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Noel Streatfeild | Apple Bough, 1962 (illustrated by Margery Gill
, published as Traveling Shoes in the USA), is remarkable from a feminist point of view for the name of the youngest child in the central family... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Candia McWilliam | All the characters are fond of aphorisms (from Anne we get Bitterness is wanton, like showing the hangman the gauge of your neck . . . . It also comes easily to lazy sentimentalists McWilliam, Candia. A Case of Knives. Bloomsbury, 1987. 187 |
Leisure and Society | Mary Cowden Clarke | At Salzburg in 1879 MCC
heard Hans Richter
conducting the Vienna Orchestra
(now the Vienna Philharmonic), and thought him the best conductor she had ever heard, superior even to Mendelssohn. Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896. 184 |
Leisure and Society | Josephine Butler | |
Leisure and Society | Sheenagh Pugh | She lists her interests as language, history, northern landscapes . . . snooker, mortality, cyberspace, and especially people. Pugh, Sheenagh. “Sheenagh Pugh”. Yahoo! GeoCities, 8 Apr. 2004. |
Literary responses | Harold Pinter | Peter Hall
, its first director, likened the play to Mozart
's music for its precision, lyricism, and sudden descents into pain which are quickly over because of a healthy sense of the ridiculous. qtd. in Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Toni Morrison | O'Brien
, however, was overall dissatisfied with Jazz. She felt something was lacking, and missed the emotional nexus, the moment shorn of all artifice that brings us headlong into the deepest recesses of feeling... |
Literary responses | Dora Carrington | When artist and critic Henry Lamb
viewed the image of the last, he apparently heard or saw music in it. He informed her: I think there is something so very good about your head of... |