Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Wealth and Poverty | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Despite the considerable earnings from her writings, her inheritance from her father, and a legacy for £500 from Edward FitzGeraldfor love of her father, Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 193 |
Textual Production | Jessie Ellen Cadell | This was intended to test the waters for an authoritative, scholarly edition with her own translation, on which JEC
had been working for years. (Her initials served to conceal her gender.) She felt sure she... |
Textual Production | Agnes Mary Clerke | AMC
published articles on literature and the arts as well as on science: in 1894, for example, she reviewed the letters of Edward FitzGerald
for the Edinburgh Review. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Sarojini Naidu | The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death and the Spring, another volume of poems by SN
, was published by William Heinemann
in London and John Lane
in New York. The dedication... |
Textual Production | Henry Handel Richardson | HHR
's autobiography, Myself When Young (titled from Edward FitzGerald
's Rubàiyàt of Omar Khayyàm), appeared posthumously in print, as completed after her death by Olga Roncoroni
. Bowen, Elizabeth. “The Evolution of a Novelist”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2424, p. 395. 395 |
Literary responses | Melesina Trench | Before publishing MT
's private writings, her son showed them to Edward FitzGerald
. Fitzgerald responded positively, judging them the equal of published letters by the writers Horace Walpole
and Robert Southey
. He showed... |
Literary responses | Louisa Stuart Costello | The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes that although she worked not from original Persian sources but from prose intermediaries some of her versions were favourably compared with those of Edward FitzGerald
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Charlotte Yonge | During her lifetime CY
was ranked as a serious novelist with Austen
, Trollope
, Balzac
, and Zola
. Contemporaries like Louisa Alcott
, Margaret Oliphant
, Ellen Wood
, and Rhoda Broughton
made... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mathilde Blind | MB
uses an epigraph from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (in Edward FitzGerald
's free translation): The Bird of Time has but a little way / To flutter—and the bird is on the wing. Willett, Perry, and Perry Willett, editors. “Victorian Women Writers Project”. Indiana University. prelims |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Sitwell | ES
loved Christina Rossetti
from her childhood, and later thoroughly admired Gertrude Stein
. As a young woman, however, she believed: Women's poetry, with the exception of Sappho
. . . and Goblin MarketChristina Rossetti
and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jessie Ellen Cadell | The article contains two linked analyses, of FitzGerald
as a translator and of Omar
as a thinker. She calls the former's rendering a poem on Omar, rather than a translation of his work, and points... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Wendy Cope | Its very title establishes that for her a topic that matters “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Agnes Hamilton | She was inspired to write it by a hatred of war, which was encouraged by political activists including such women as Vernon Lee
and Lady Ottoline Morrell
. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 72-4 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lucas Malet | The epigraph, from FitzGerald
's Omar Khayyam, says that human beings are nothing but God's chess-pieces, or shadows cast by his lantern. The story is narrated by one man to another: by Anthony Hammond... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarojini Naidu | The title is taken from words spoken to Naidu by Indian national leader G. K. Gokhale
: Why should a song-bird like you have a broken wing? Naidu, Sarojini. The Broken Wing. William Heinemann; John Lane. 3 |