Farr, Florence. Egyptian Magic. Aquarian Press.
12-13, 15, 85
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Florence Farr | Farr quotes from a variety of sources, from the Book of the Dead and Iamblichus
's The Mysteries to Shelley
's Ozymandias. Farr, Florence. Egyptian Magic. Aquarian Press. 12-13, 15, 85 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Florence Farr | A series of reviews by others precedes Farr's own account of her musical recitations. These experiments in verse performance began as illustrations of Yeats's theories of the music and rhythm of spoken verse, but Farr... |
Textual Features | Margiad Evans | A poem dating probably from early 1950 speaks of her firm conviction of the separateness of music and poetry. There is, she wrote, no music in poems: she never heard in poetry either an organ... |
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 |
Textual Features | Helen Dunmore | The title poem pictures a man skating on a pond; he has the air, though, of a long-distance rather than a pleasure skater, and the poem imagines him going on forever, mounting the crusted waves... |
Education | Florence Dixie | Lady Florence was at first educated at home in Scotland. After a first, unsuccessful attempt to place her in a convent she had, in France, an Irish Catholic governess whom she calls Miss O'Leary... |
Literary responses | Florence Dixie | This book was widely reviewed in provincial and even American as well as London papers. The Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard called it a real, living, human production, and one which must ever be... |
Literary responses | Florence Dixie | Holyoake
, the dedicatee, in his prefatory piece (like W. Stewart Ross
commenting on The Story of Ijain) defends FD
's work not only by assertion (it is a a marvel of thought... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Despard | In this historically-based essay CD
sets out to deal not with individual women but with the great woman-principle. Shaw, Frederick John, editor. The Case for Women’s Suffrage. Unwin. 190 |
Literary responses | Ethel M. Dell | In response to a compliment on her writing EMD
replied, they are not well written and will never be called classics. Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton. 129 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Dacre | Zofloya was widely reviewed and its language widely condemned as bombastical—probably reflecting unease at its rampant female sexuality. Shocked reviews included those in the Literary Journal and Monthly Literary Recreations, though the Morning... |
Textual Production | Ella D'Arcy | EDA
's last book was her translation into English of Ariel, the biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley
written by André Maurois
, published, like her other books, by John Lane
. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 43576 (15 February 1924): 17 Clarke, John Stock. Ella D’Arcy. |
Author summary | Ella D'Arcy | EDA
was chiefly a short-story writer, known for her acerbic depictions of personal pain caused by the institution of marriage. Unlike other New Woman writers she shows no bias towards her own sex: her victims... |
Textual Production | Ella D'Arcy | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dinah Mulock Craik | Freed as a disabled woman from the expectations of conventional femininity, Olive leads an independent life and struggles to become a successful painter, strengthened by her reading of Shelley
and Byron
. But she foregoes... |
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