Edward FitzGerald

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Standard Name: FitzGerald, Edward

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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.
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not to mention her husband's salary, ATR 's extravagance...
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/.
She also produced one larger work...
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.
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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.
is the place of poetry in present-day culture, and that her approach to this topic is satirical in the manner of Pope , making...
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.
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Her title comes from a manifesto...
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.
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(It also recalls her previous title, which...

Timeline

31 March 1859: Edward FitzGerald published, privately and...

Writing climate item

31 March 1859

Edward FitzGerald published, privately and anonymously in a limited edition on his fiftieth birthday, his free translation in couplet stanzas of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.

1955: Rosalind Wade published Come Fill the Cup...

Women writers item

1955

Rosalind Wade published Come Fill the Cup (titled from a hedonistic line in Edward FitzGerald ), a novel dealing with alcoholism.

Texts

FitzGerald, Edward. The Letters of Edward FitzGerald. Editors Terhune, Alfred McKinley and Annabelle Burdick Terhune, Princeton University Press, 1980.