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Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Bowen | The story Mysterious Kor, with its fine pen-picture of the Regent's Park area of London, with its tall eighteenth-century houses blacked out as a precaution against bombers but brilliantly lit by moonlight, is... |
Literary responses | Eva Gore-Booth | The volume was well-received by EGB
's contemporaries. W. B. Yeats
wrote to her: I think it is full of poetic feeling and has great promise. . . . Weariness is really most imaginative and... |
Literary responses | May Kendall | However, others were less willing to attribute the talent evident in the volume to MK
. A reviewer from The Athenæum went so far as to say no doubt she owes a great deal, both... |
Literary responses | May Kendall | The mixed reviews that greeted Songs can be attributed to a lack of backing from Lang
in advertising the book. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 122 Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 122 |
Literary responses | Rudyard Kipling | This book, immensely popular with Anglo-Indians, was welcomed in London in a short review from Andrew Lang
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Martin Ross | Readers from Somerville and Ross's own time until today have had difficulty believing that their books were not essentially written by one of them and only revised by the other: in other words, that their... |
Author summary | May Kendall | May Kendall
is most notable for late-nineteenth-century poems characterized by sharp humour and sarcastic wit on topics related to evolutionary science and the new woman. Her novels employ sarcasm and irony to examine British... |
Publishing | May Kendall | White Poppies was serialized in Sylvia's Journal, thanks to its editor (apparently a friend of MK
), Rosamund Marriott Watson
(Graham R. Tomson). Kendall was most likely acquainted with Watson through Andrew Lang |
Publishing | Phyllis Bottome | |
Publishing | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | SACD
searched for a publisher for his novel, as he had for A Study in Scarlet, until it was taken by Longmans, Green and Co.
on the advice of Andrew Lang
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Features | Evelyn Sharp | |
Textual Features | Rosamund Marriott Watson | Betty Barnes, The Book Burner was probably inspired by Walter Scott
's account of a cook who used her employer's manuscript collection to fuel a fire and line pie-tins. Blain, Virginia, editor. Victorian Women Poets: A New Annotated Anthology. Longman. 264 |
Textual Production | E. Nesbit | |
Textual Production | Violet Hunt | VH
and her sister Silvia Hunt (later Fogg-Elliot)
helped with the 's immensely popular versions of fairy tales from many lands and ages which Andrew Lang
published this year as The Blue Fairy Book. Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster. 34 |
Textual Production | E. Nesbit | Contributors included EN
herself, Gerald Gould
, G. K. Chesterton
, Andrew Lang
, and Oswald Barron
. Nesbit's idealistic promise that she would print the plain naked unashamed truth, in contrast to the lies... |
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