Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press.
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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 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Margiad Evans | A young poet whom she calls B—, a descendant of Percy Shelley
(and therefore presumably of Mary Shelley
too), whom she had known since his boyhood, moved from his own cottage to stay with ME |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Cowden Clarke | MCC
's parents frequently entertained eminent literary figures in a drawing-room where the paintings were all executed by distinguished friends. At an early age she became acquainted with Charles
and Mary Lamb
, Leigh Hunt |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Edna St Vincent Millay | One of ESVM
's close friends was the poet and novelist Elinor Wylie
. Wylie visited Steepletop with her husband in 1927 and the two poets discussed and sometimes disagreed about Shelley
and Keats
and... |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarojini Naidu | For SN
, writing began as an act of rebellion. She wrote her first poem at the age of eleven when she became frustrated with an algebra problem, and thereupon decided to become a poet.... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Radcliffe | Anna Seward
, in letters which were to be published in AR
's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 221-2 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarojini Naidu | The story of its publication has been told by Arthur Symons
and Edmund Gosse
, and their accounts reveal considerable English intervention to bring out the Indian aspects of her work. At the age of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarojini Naidu | Clusters of poems in this volume bear epigraphs pointing to both Eastern and Western influences: The Flowering Year quotes Shelley
, while The Peacock Lute and The Temple: A Pilgrimage of Love quote Omar Khayyàm |
Intertextuality and Influence | Marion Reid | Using rhetoric similar to that of abolitionists, Reid draws parallels between the plight of women and that of slaves. The title-page asks (in the words of Percy Bysshe Shelley
) Can man be free, if... |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarojini Naidu | In one speech given in 1903, True Brotherhood, SN
advocates the spirit of brotherhood and equality as an antidote to provincialism, declaring I am a real democrat, because to me there is no difference... |
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