Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
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Reception | Anna Swanwick | In 1858 AS
became one of the first female members of the Royal Institution
. The Institution, founded in 1799, calls itself on its website the oldest independent research body in the world, and has... |
Publishing | Edna St Vincent Millay | In 1924 Frederic
and Bertha Goudy
printed a limited edition of the title-poem Renascence at their Village Press
, using the very hand press that William Morris
had used for the Kelmscott Chaucer
. Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House. 320 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | JFLW
received £25 for the rights from William Morris
, and in December 1893 he signed one of three hundred copies from the new illustrated edition published by Kelmscott Press
. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray. 256 |
politics | Annie Besant | She was one of the key figures urging the protest to go ahead despite the order against public processions. It took place on 13 November. When the protesters arrived at Trafalgar Square, they faced... |
Occupation | Sylvia Pankhurst | SP
made very little money from artistic commissions, but devoted her talents in visual art to the Women's Social and Political Union
. She designed the cover of Votes for Women. Other artistic contributions... |
Occupation | Walter Pater | While at Brasenose
, he wrote three anonymous essays for the Westminster Review: Coleridge
's Writings, Winckelmann, and The Poetry of William Morris. All three were attacked, says scholar Laurel Brake |
Literary responses | Charlotte Maria Tucker | The Athenæum proclaimed, a more entertaining and salutary story for merry, scatter-brained, careless children has rarely been put on paper. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1843 (1863): 261 |
Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | CR
's critical reputation stood very high from the appearance of Goblin Market, although she was not a popular poet. H. Buxton Forman
in Our Living Poets, 1871, got her middle name wrong... |
Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Elliot | In 1880 Theodore Watts
described this volume as unequal, and noted that the poet was later inclined to disparage her initial publication. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2726 (1880): 124 |
Leisure and Society | L. T. Meade | These tastes leaned to the pre-Raphaelite, with Morris
hangings and photogravures after Burne-Jones
and Watts
. Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode. 222, 228 Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode. 223 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Gardam | Gardam's The Hollow Land (addressed to an older age-group) has an epigraph from the prose romance by William Morris
which bears the same title. The land in her book is the Cumbrian fells, full... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ethel Mannin | EM
mentions spending her earlier years, whilst I was still serious, Mannin, Ethel. All Experience. Jarrolds. 74 Mannin, Ethel. All Experience. Jarrolds. 74, 75 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Bruce Glasier | The title page of the pamphlet references works by both William Morris
and Walt Whitman
, while the text itself paraphrases Edward Carpenter
. Glasier, Katharine Bruce, and John Bruce Glasier. The Religion of Socialism: Two Aspects. Labour Press Society Limited;Labour Literature Society. title page, 1 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothy Whipple | This novel's opening is a prime example of DW
's skill at hooking her readers. She opens with the ancient gateway of the house standing in darkness, illuminated every few minutes by the flash of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Yonge | This was one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century. Two years after it appeared it was the favourite choice of young officers in hospital during the Crimean War. A guardsman confessed that... |
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