Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
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... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | William Makepeace Thackeray | Despite his lack of scholastic success WMT
was popular socially, and his wide circle of friends at Cambridge included Alfred Tennyson
, Edward FitzGerald
, and John Allen
. His brief time at university
also... |
Friends, Associates | Alfred Tennyson | A sociable man (although distrustful of unknown admirers) Tennyson was acquainted with many of the major artistic and political figures of the nineteenth century, including Edward FitzGerald
, Coventry Patmore
, Edward Lear
, William Ewart Gladstone |
Education | Freya Stark | Family friends sympathetic to Freya's feelings of entrapment at Dronero sent her gifts of books: she was especially passionate about Shakespeare
, Sir Walter Scott
, Byron
, Keats
, Kipling
, Shelley
, Wordsworth |
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... |
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, qtd. in Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981. 193 |
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, 17 July 1948, p. 395. 395 |
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, 1917. 3 |
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... |
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 |
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, 1919. 69 |
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, 1944. 72-4 |
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/. |
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.
Martin, Robert Bernard. With Friends Possessed: A Life of Edward Fitzgerald. Atheneum, 1985.
210, 218-20
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
31 March 2008
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
31 March 2009
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Texts
FitzGerald, Edward. Letters and Literary Remains of Edward FitzGerald. Editor Wright, William Aldis, Macmillan, 1903, 7 vols.
FitzGerald, Edward. Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble 1871-1883. Editor Wright, William Aldis, R. Bentley and Son, 1895.
Omar Khayyám,. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Translator FitzGerald, Edward, B. Quaritch, 1859.
FitzGerald, Edward. The Letters of Edward FitzGerald. Editors Terhune, Alfred McKinley and Annabelle Burdick Terhune, Princeton University Press, 1980, 4 vols.