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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maya Angelou | This volume has much less about her intellectual development than its predecessor, but MA
mentions that as her work began to dabble on the verge of criminality she discovered the Russian writers, beginning with... |
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. 185 |
Textual Production | Constance Garnett | CG
published her last book, a translation from Turgenev
entitled Three Plays. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1672 (15 February 1934): 107 |
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... |
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. 41 O’Faolain, Sean. Vive Moi!. Editor O’Faolain, Julia, Sinclair-Stevenson. 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. Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell. 1 |
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 | 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. Leclercq, Florence. Elizabeth Taylor. Twayne. 2 |
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... |
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. 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. Gale, Robert L. A Henry James Encyclopedia. Greenwood. 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. 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... |
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)... |