Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Amy Levy | The plot concerns an English governess to an Italian family in Rome, who opposes the love which develops between her and the grown-up son. AL
plants allusions to Jane Eyre and to famous English... |
Friends, Associates | Vernon Lee | Violet Paget (later VL
) met Cornelia Turner
in Paris. A novelist, companion to Shelley
, and lover of Giovanni Ruffini
, Turner became a vital supporter of Violet's early writing. Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press. 14-17 |
Reception | Margery Lawrence | In his Foreword to the volume, Sir Shane Leslie
finds the influences of Shelley
, Yeats
, Tennyson
, Kipling
, Housman
, Chesterton
, and Fiona MacLeod
(pen-name of William Sharp). Yet according to... |
Occupation | Fanny Aikin Kortright | At her father's death it became necessary for FAK
and her unmarried sisters to find work, and they all became governesses. Her first job was at Bradford in Yorkshire, in the family of an... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Kemble | FK
met her future husband and tormentor during the American tour, in Philadelphia, on 13 October 1832. He saw her perform, and courted her. She professed herself initially uninterested in his suit. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster. 56 Foner, Eric. “I just get my pistol and shoot him right down”. London Review of Books, Vol. 40 , No. 6, pp. 25-6. 25 |
Friends, Associates | John Keats | Keats was taught and was influenced as a young man by Charles Cowden Clarke
. Another important literary friendship was that with Leigh Hunt
, then Percy
and Mary Shelley
and William Hazlitt
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Mary... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria Jane Jewsbury | MJJ
also shows herself independent-minded in her 1831 essay on Percy Bysshe Shelley
, who was still generally condemned as an atheist and a revolutionary. Praising Shelley's true, pure, beautiful poetry, Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, II”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol. 67 , No. 1, The Library, pp. 450-73. 465 |
Friends, Associates | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | Stevenson describes HCJ
as surrounded by brilliant friends. Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press. 13 |
Performance of text | Ann Jellicoe | AJ
's biographical play, Shelley
; or, The Idealist, was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre
in London. Jellicoe, Ann. Shelley. Faber and Faber. prelims Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 221 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ann Jellicoe | With this play, Jellicoe deliberately broke with her earlier work by writing a narrative drama based on a pre-existing story. She was attracted to the subject of Percy Shelley's life
because it gave her the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Aldous Huxley | Some critics consider this AH
's finest work, a point of intersection between his social satires and his portraits of cynical characters who eventually journey to mysticism. It has an epigraph from Fulke Greville
about... |
Textual Production | Anna Mary Howitt | She chose epigraphs to chapter one from Keats
and James Shirley
, to chapters three and fourteen from Mary Howitt
, and elsewhere from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, Percy Bysshe Shelley
, and writers in French, German, and Italian. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Holford | The title-page quotes a French proverb: La fin couronne les oeuvres, or the end crowns the work The dedication to Baillie expresses pride in the friendship, but shame at the idea of comparison between their... |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Percy Shelley
, having read her first volume of poems and heard a report of her from his cousin Thomas Medwin
, attempted unsuccessfully and under a pseudonym to establish a correspondence with the teenaged... |
Reception | Felicia Hemans | Nevertheless, the Romantic Circles Electronic Edition of this poem edited by Nanora Sweet
and Barbara Taylor
represents it as a much more open and indeed sceptical text than FH
's own comment suggests, and subtitles... |
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