Samuel Butler

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Standard Name: Butler, Samuel,, 1835 - 1902

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Education Maya Angelou
Marguerite Johnson had already become a voracious reader, both of Black writers and of canonical dead white males. Shakespeare , she wrote later, was my first white love.
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Heinemann New Windmill Series, 1995.
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She also enjoyed and respected...
Intertextuality and Influence Ivy Compton-Burnett
ICB read Samuel Butler 's Note-Books, making marginal notes: Butler radically influenced her thinking about the tyrannical and claustrophobic aspects of family life.
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research, 1985.
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Literary responses Evelyn Sharp
Henry Nevinson , however, judged this to be Sharp's greatest book, worthy of comparison with Swift 's Gulliver's Travels or Samuel Butler 's Erewhon. Harold Laski , too, admired it.
John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869–1955. Manchester University Press, 2009.
122, 126
Textual Production May Sinclair
MS published A Defence of Idealism, in which she regretted having to refute those whose work she greatly admired: Samuel Butler , Henri Bergson , William James , Bertrand Russell , and others.
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973.
112, 258

Timeline

1872: Samuel Butler anonymously published, at his...

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1872

Samuel Butler anonymously published, at his own expense, his satirical novel Erewhon.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
151-2, 323
Howsam, Leslie. Kegan Paul—A Victorian Imprint. Kegan Paul; University of Toronto Press, 1998.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

1897: Samuel Butler published The Authoress of...

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1897

Samuel Butler published The Authoress of the Odyssey, a book calculated to offend the entire establishment
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
of imperial Britain with its claim that the second great character-building Greek epic had been written by a woman.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

By late May 1903: Samuel Butler's autobiographical novel The...

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By late May 1903

Samuel Butler 's autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh was posthumously published.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

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