qtd. in
Jack, Belinda. George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large. Vintage, 2001.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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death | George Sand | Her death was reported widely in the press. Flaubert
allegedly wrote in a letter that [a]t her funeral I cried like an ass, qtd. in Jack, Belinda. George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large. Vintage, 2001. 10 |
Education | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | She read voraciously, preferring writers with the geographical rootedness which she herself lacked: George Eliot
, Thomas Hardy
, Charles Dickens
, and from beyond the English tradition Marcel Proust
, James Joyce
, Henry James |
Education | Mary Lavin | It was, she said later, through reading that I passed from childhood to adulthood, first through a chance encounter with Eliot
's Adam Bede (and that was the end of the school stories)... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Ellen Harrison | Distinguished guests at Newnham
at this time included Ruskin
and Turgenev
; JEH
recalls giving them tours of the college in her Reminiscences of a Student's Life. Harrison, Jane Ellen. Reminiscences of a Student’s Life. Hogarth Press, 1925. 44 |
Friends, Associates | Henry James | In Paris his friend Ivan Turgenev
introduced him to Maupassant
, Zola
, and Daudet
, among others. Stringer, Jenny, editor. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English. Oxford University Press, 1996. Gale, Robert L. A Henry James Encyclopedia. Greenwood, 1989. xx |
Friends, Associates | Marie Belloc Lowndes | As a child she had already met several distinguished writers in England, and Mary Clarke Mohl
and Turgenev
in France. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941. 369-70 |
Friends, Associates | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
set a great deal of store by meeting men distinguished as authors or in other fields, as a spur to literary achievement of her own. She was given to boasting of her acquaintance with... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Edgeworth | ME
's father, who admired her, wished to wring recognition for her from others. His efforts may well have been counter-productive. One result, even during her lifetime, was suspicion that he had written some parts... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Templeton | This title echoes Turgenev
's A Month in the Country. Set between the wars at Castle Kirna, a dilapidated, imaginary country estate at Brandys not far from Prague, this novel (like the two... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Taylor | As a child Betty Coles (later ET
) wrote plays (with very short scenes each demanding a new and elaborate setting) and stories. She said she always wanted to be a novelist. qtd. in Leclercq, Florence. Elizabeth Taylor. Twayne, 1985. 2 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Bowen | Sean O'Faolain
, who discovered this novel eight years after it was published, was captivated. O’Faolain, Julia. Trespassers, A Memoir. Faber and Faber, 2014. 41 O’Faolain, Sean. Vive Moi!. Editor O’Faolain, Julia, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993. 301 |
Literary responses | Vera Brittain | The book was widely and favourably reviewed. Lady Rhondda
found it [e]xtraordinarily interesting. I sat up reading it till long past my usual bedtime and have been reading it again all this morning. qtd. in Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell, 1996. 1 |
Literary responses | Edith Templeton | While some reviewers criticised this novel as superficial, the New York Times found in it a brisk but sympathetic discourse upon human folly and the blind fanaticism of people determined to preserve an outmoded way... |
Textual Production | Ethel M. Arnold | EA translated, from French to English, an edition of the Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev
’s letters to his friends in France, which included Gustave Flaubert
, Émile Zola
, Guy de Maupassant
, and the... |
Textual Production | Constance Garnett | CG
produced the first translation into English of the complete works of Ivan Turgenev
. Heilbrun, Carolyn. The Garnett Family. Allen and Unwin, 1961. 185 |