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Publishing | Barbara Hofland | James Montgomery
, editor of the Sheffield paper the Iris, helped with encouragement and advertising. He printed the poetry volume at the Iris office in Sheffield, with a ruined-abbey frontispiece and a title-page... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Hofland | The title-page quotes from Spenser
, and the first chapter from Johnson
's Rambler. This sophisticated novel, with a North Yorkshire setting, a large cast of upper-class characters, and a wide range of reference... |
Textual Features | Seamus Heaney | In a twenty-page introduction, SH
explains what this poem meant for him. He discusses its diction, and the way that fragments of its language have survived, embedded in, for instance, the speech of Heaney's own... |
Textual Features | Jane Harvey | The contents include descriptive and melancholy sonnets, satire, autobiography, and politics (including a poem on the horrors of slavery, addressed to William Wilberforce
, and another about the sorrow of a woman whose lover has... |
Education | Dora Greenwell | Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 199 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke. 73 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Elizabeth I | In the minds of the country's ruling class, a marriage for the queen was also necessary. Some have supposed that at this stage Elizabeth may have hoped to marry one day, although she herself publicly... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Isabella Duberly | FID
turns frequently in her journal to literary quotation. She often quotes from poets whose popularity has waned, but she also calls on Longfellow
, Duberly, Frances Isabella. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6. Editor Kelly, Christine, Oxford University Press. 216 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susannah Dobson | This work abounds in quotations from Lydgate
, Spenser
, Sainte-Palaye
, William Hayley
, and others. It cites the Roman historian Tacitus
in confirmation that the chivalric system was originally Germanic. O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press. 139 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isak Dinesen | She divided her life into five stages, supplying a motto for each stage, in Latin, French, and English. The English motto, for the final stage, came from Spenser
's The Faerie Queene: Be bold... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Selina Davenport | The title-page quotes Milton
on the false dissembler (Satan). The story opens with Edmund Dudley, the lover and the poet, confiding to a married friend, Leopold Courtenay, his love for Althea, to whom he has... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Alicia D'Anvers | ADA
's immortal Sing-Song / How all th'old Dons were at it Ding-dong D’Anvers, Alicia. The Oxford-Act. Randal Taylor. 9 |
Intertextuality and Influence | An Collins | AC
writes in many different metres (some unusual, a few somewhat uncertainly used). In a prose address to the Christian Reader Collins, An. Divine Songs and Meditacions. Editor Stewart, Stanley N., William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. 1 Collins, An. Divine Songs and Meditacions. Editor Stewart, Stanley N., William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. 2 |
Occupation | Lady Anne Clifford | |
Occupation | Lady Anne Clifford |
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