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Education | Penelope Shuttle | At seventeen, she says (after the successive discoveries of Charlotte Brontë
, T. S. Eliot
and Emily Dickinson
), she began reading Rilke
. Everything opened up then, a whole new world of poetry for me. Mslexia. Mslexia Publications. 47 |
Education | Tillie Olsen | At home the Lerner children learned Yiddish songs and made up silly plays. Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010. 27 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Joan Aiken | JA
's father was Conrad Aiken
(1889-1973), born in Savannah, Georgia: a modernist poet, critic, and editor of Emily Dickinson
. He had been publishing poetry for ten years when Joan was born, and... |
Friends, Associates | Julia Ward Howe | JWH
first encountered Higginson
(the friend and correspondent of Emily Dickinson
) at a Boston rally in support of the fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins
. Howe, Julia Ward. Reminiscences, 1819–1899. Houghton Mifflin, 1899. 165 |
Friends, Associates | Sylvia Townsend Warner | US poet Genevieve Taggard
launched a literary friendship (and correspondence, from which Warner's surviving eighteen letters have recently been published) when she sent Warner a poem in 1941. Taggard was a poet particularly appreciated by... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Carol Shields | Following an epigraph from Emily Dickinson
, Tell all the truth but tell it slant,CS
here experiments with melodrama, coincidence, and other infringements on naturalism. Wachtel, Eleanor, editor. “Carol Shields”. More Writers and Company: New Conversations with CBC Radio’s Eleanor Wachtel, Vintage Canada, 1997, pp. 36 -56. 37 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Adrienne Rich | First published in 1971 (Rich's collections often include writings issued previously), the essay When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision is described in 1988 by Elizabeth Meese
as still inform[ing] much of the best work... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Desai | AD
's work weaves together a wide range of cultural and literary references: the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgîtâ, as well as such European authors as E. M. Forster
, T. S. Eliot
, Dickinson |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Desai | Influenced by Eliot
's Four Quartets, Clear Light of Day deals with time as destroyer and preserver, and with what the bondage of time does to people. Gopal, N. Raj. A Critical Study of the Novels of Anita Desai. Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 1995. 90 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Drabble | Imagery of postpartum fluidity, particularly lactation, characterizes the lovers' growing passion and the descriptions of female sexual desire and orgasm. The narrative alternates between a schizoid third-person dialogue Drabble, Margaret. The Waterfall. Penguin, 1971. 130 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sylvia Kantaris | The poems here are full of places—real ones, like St Ives, Zennor, a rain-forest in Queensland, Australia; also the dystopias of Snapshotland (where everyone is happy all the time.) Kantaris, Sylvia. The Sea at the Door. Secker and Warburg, 1985. 4 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Penelope Shuttle | The first book that affected PS
deeply was Brontë
's Jane Eyre, with whose protagonist she identified. Steffens, Daneet. “Penelope Shuttle”. Mslexia, No. 33, pp. 46 - 8. 48 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margiad Evans | At the end of the 1940s, when she was writing extremely hard, she began work on a book about Emily Brontë
. She abandoned it soon after her first epileptic seizure, feeling that it was... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edna O'Brien | EOB
has named many women writers as important to her: she includes among these Jane Austen
, Emily Dickinson
, Elizabeth Bowen
, Anna Akhmatova
, Anita Brookner
, and Margaret Atwood
, adding: Every... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elaine Feinstein | Lais considers Holbein
's painting of the courtesan of that name, who lived in ancient Corinth: a representation unexpectedly mild and benevolent, of a woman who cannot hide the evidence of grace. Adcock, Fleur, editor. The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Women’s Poetry. Faber and Faber, 1987. 228 |