Here Dora became passionate about Goethe
and Schiller
, Mendelssohn
and Schubert
, and about theatre in general.
Friends, Associates
Hannah Arendt
Growing up in the household of her step-family, HA
made the acquaintance of Anna Mendelssohn
, later Weil, who became an intimate and lifelong friend. Anna was a descendant of the composer Felix Mendelssohn
...
Friends, Associates
Mary Cowden Clarke
In addition to meeting Dickens
as a result of her theatrical activities, MCC
and her husband met William Hazlitt
through a shared duty of theatre reviewing, and she became friends with Mary Howitt
, and...
Leisure and Society
Frances Ridley Havergal
FRH
could play much of Handel
, Beethoven
, and Mendelssohn
from memory, and her powers as a solo singer were very much in request in the Philharmonic Society at Kidderminster.
Enock, Esther E. Frances Ridley Havergal. Pickering and Inglis, 1928.
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She lived...
Textual Production
Patricia Highsmith
At seventeen, back in Texas before going to college, she thought at a film of A Midsummer-Night's Dream: Mendelssohn
was no older when he wrote that overture. What a genius!
Highsmith, Patricia. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. St Martin’s Press, 1990.