Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Textual Production | Felicia Hemans | In a letter of 1822, in mock despair at the interruptions resulting from writing in a home occupied by children and renovators, FH
casts herself as Beatrice in Shelley
's The Cenci (which she misattributes... |
Friends, Associates | William Hazlitt | In 1817 he was sitting up until three in the morning with Percy
and Mary Shelley
discussing monarchy and republicanism. Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press. 163 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Anne Duffus Hardy | Quoting a phrase originally used by the seventeenth-century Thomas Fuller
, she recalls how at the old slave mart people representing God's image, carved in ebony, were lined up like cattle for sale in most... |
Textual Production | Germaine Greer | GG
has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings
, Jeslyn Medoff
and Melinda Sansone
), Kissing the Rod, has played an... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Grant | During their journeys between London and the Highlands, EG
and her family would stop at various locations where they met interesting people. For example, while resting at Seaham for some time, they became acquainted with... |
Family and Intimate relationships | William Godwin | He was already famous (or, to some, infamous) for his writings when he and Mary Wollstonecraft
became lovers in August 1796. They married on 29 March 1797 (although both of them disapproved of the institution... |
Education | Rumer Godden | In India, RG
later wrote, it was thought there were five things a girl needed to know if she were to take her place in any sort of society: to dance, to play the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Bruce Glasier | John Bruce Glasier, also a founding member of the Independent Labour Party
and NAC
, was a devoted socialist like KBG
, an aspiring poet, a determined agnostic, and at the end of his life... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Gerard | The title of A Sensitive Plant comes from the poem of the same name by Percy Bysshe Shelley
: his sensitive plant, too, is human, in his case a male poet. The sensitive character depicted... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Gerard | This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine |
Friends, Associates | George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron | His final exit from England was made in the company of Hobhouse
, and on the shores of Lake Geneva he met up with Percy
and Mary Shelley
and Mary's step-sister Claire Clairmont
, with... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Gardam | The title given these stories may sound sentimental, but in fact it comes from a kind of cake made by a character who, when asked about her health, always replies that this is only one... |
Publishing | Margaret Fuller | This was followed by a review, in the August issue, of the novels of Edward Bulwer (later Bulwer-Lytton)
(which she put forward as worth examining because of their moral qualities). Further essays by MF
appeared... |
Literary responses | Michael Field | George Meredith
thought the play would act well but added this criticism: I do not find in your dramatic prose the complete ring that there is in the sound and volume of your blank verse... |
Occupation | Florence Farr | The lecture proved quite popular, and Clifford's Inn had to turn people away. Over the following years, FF
put on many such readings, performing works by Homer
, Shelley
, Yeats
, Lady Gregory
... |
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