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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Fay Weldon | FW
learned to read at three: I remember . . . the way the letters suddenly made sense. Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo, 2002. 24 |
Education | Anna Akhmatova | At the age of ten Anna started attending school in Tsarskoe Selo, but fell ill a few months later and had to withdraw. She learnt French at home and by the age of thirteen... |
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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Theodora Benson | While the title alludes to Lewis Carroll
, the chapters are headed with quotations which begin with Shakespeare
and Verlaine
, move through such less usual sources as Punch and Rupert Brooke
, and conclude... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | This story of infidelity features an Italian financier who as a furiously jealous foreigner is compared to Shakespeare's Othello. (At least Provana is not black Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. Beyond These Voices. Hutchinson, 1910. 68 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Carol Ann Duffy | Its contents include a number of fairly light-hearted treatments of topical subjects: The Legend (which describes a mythical, impossibly immense animal, which the last words reveal to be the elephant, once it has become extinct... |
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... |
Leisure and Society | Michael Field | On 22 November 1893, Edith and Katharine joined eighty to an hundred intellectual listeners, many of them women, Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray, 1933. 188 |
Textual Features | Edith Sitwell | French as well as English poetry is much in evidence here, predominantly Gérard de Nerval
, Baudelaire
, Stéphane Mallarmé
, Verlaine
, and Rimbaud
, all of whom she much admired. ES
groups her... |
Textual Features | Beatrice Harraden | They mention the need for new funds and the way they will supplement previous subscriptions. Harraden, Beatrice, and Elizabeth Robins. “The Sussex Hospital”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 934, 11 Dec. 1919, p. 750. 750 |
Textual Features | Natalie Clifford Barney | In L'amour défenduNCB
defends the proposition that only love is important, not the sex to whom it is directed. Barney, Natalie Clifford, and Karla Jay. A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney. Translator Anna Livia, New Victoria Publishers, 1992. 85 |
Textual Features | Frances Cornford | The book contains poems by, among others, Baudelaire
, Rimbaud
, and Verlaine
. Cornford's translations appear on the facing pages. Fifteen Poems, from the French. Translator Cornford, Frances, Tragara Press, 1976. 1 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marie Belloc Lowndes | This book deals very largely with her French extended family, her visits to France as a young adult, and her French social circles. She meant it to dispel certain false ideas, English rather than American... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Cecily Mackworth | She concentrates on the visits of her subjects to England in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries. To all of them—Mallarmé
(a poet she deeply loved), Verlaine
(whose list of books probably read... |