“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Andrew Lang
Standard Name: Lang, Andrew
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Rosamund Marriott Watson | According to Angela Leighton
, the social scandal that erupted in the wake of RMW
's adultery and second divorce not only created a rift in private between the writer and many of her friends... |
| Textual Production | Rosamund Marriott Watson | Her earliest periodical publications garnered the attention of the influential writer and editor Andrew Lang
, who assumed from her pseudonym that she was a man. In November 1887, Lang included one of her ballads... |
| Textual Production | Rosamund Marriott Watson | She provided the introduction but not the concluding notes for which the title page gives her credit. In actuality Andrew Lang
wrote the notes. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Rosamund Marriott Watson | Andrew Lang
assumed the role of literary adviser during the volume's preparation. The book had mediocre sales, selling about 250 copies to British and American readers. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 Hughes, Linda K. “A Woman Poet Angling for Notice: Rosamund Marriott Watson”. Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930, edited by Marysa Demoor and Marysa Demoor, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 134-55. 140 |
| 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 |
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