Willett, Perry, and Perry Willett, editors. “Victorian Women Writers Project”. Indiana University.
prelims
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 |
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... |
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... |
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/. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Wendy Cope | Its very title establishes that for her a topic that matters “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
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/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ménie Muriel Dowie | MMD
was related to several notable literary and cultural figures, including her cousin Elizabeth (Liza) Lehmann
, a distinguished vocalist and composer best known for her song cycle In a Persian Garden. The song... |
Friends, Associates | Violet Fane | Her father had literary friends, and among them introduced her to Edward Bulwer-Lytton
(probably the father rather than the son
), Edward FitzGerald
, and George Borrow
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Kemble | According to her sister Adelaide, she had another fervent admirer in the poet Edward FitzGerald
. Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From Friend to Friend. Editor Ritchie, Emily, John Murray. 69 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lucy Knox | Her father, the Hon. Stephen Edmond Spring Rice
, forged lifelong friendships with Alfred Tennyson
, Thomas Carlyle
, and Edward FitzGerald
during his years at Bury St Edmunds Grammar School
and Trinity College, Cambridge |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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 |