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Intertextuality and Influence | Rose Macaulay | Lefanu
suggests that Tudor's obsession with the idea of honey for tea, in his nostalgia for childhood as sanctuary from his present painful life, was a source in the evolution of Rupert Brooke
's famous... |
Reception | Rose Macaulay | To celebrate the appearance of her collection, RM
threw a party at her flat to which she ambitiously invited Walter de la Mare
. He attended, as did her publisher for this book, Frank Sidgwick |
Textual Features | Rose Macaulay | Like RM
's previous novel, this is concerned with the difficulty of choosing between competing ideologies. Its heroine, Alix Sandomir, is a young disabled woman, an artist who moves from staying with one set of... |
Textual Production | Storm Jameson | SJ
's novel The Lovely Ship opened a trilogy. The others, The Voyage Home and A Richer Dust, followed in January 1930 and in 1931; all three appeared together as The Triumph of Time... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Buchi Emecheta | During her schooldays literature was her greatest escape. Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann. 19 |
Occupation | Frances Cornford | Rupert Brooke
's production of Milton
's Comus, for which Frances Darwin (later Cornford
) designed the costumes, opened at the New Theatre
in Cambridge. Delany, Paul. The Neo-Pagans: Rupert Brooke and the Ordeal of Youth. Free Press. 46 |
Friends, Associates | Frances Cornford | Frances's association with Rupert Brooke
began with the rehearsals for the play and grew into friendship. They discussed their poetry with each other, and Frances counselled and consoled Rupert in his many love affairs. She... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Cornford | Rupert John Cornford
was named after Rupert Brooke
, who had died eight months earlier, and John Swan
, a miner who met the Cornfords through the Workers' Educational Association
. Delany, Paul. The Neo-Pagans: Rupert Brooke and the Ordeal of Youth. Free Press. 221 |
Textual Features | Frances Cornford | In this collection Cambridge again functions as an important subject. Frances Cornford saw her Cambridge poems as emblematic of her poetry as a whole. They served as a gauge for her poetic development and also... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Bussy | DB
's youngest sister, Marjorie Colville (Gumbo) Strachey
(1882-1964), was a teacher, suffragist, writer, and member of the group Woolf called the Neo-Pagans group (which included Rupert Brooke
, Gwen Raverat
, Ka Cox
... |
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... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Pat Arrowsmith | PA
kept a very detailed diary between the ages of thirteen and fifteen. She published excerpts and illustrations from it, with passages from her two juvenile novels, in I Should Have Been a Hornby Train... |
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