Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Heinemann New Windmill Series.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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. 12 |
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. 27 |
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, 18691955. Manchester University Press. 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. 112, 258 |
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