MEC
was educated at home. She read widely during her childhood, including works by Shakespeare
and Malory
. She studied poetry, history and drawing. Saturday afternoons were spent with friends, acting scenes from Scott
's...
Education
Augusta Gregory
AG
and her sisters received little formal education; their lessons took second place to their brothers'.
McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, 1995, pp. xi - xliv, 525.
xiii
Under her evangelical mother's strict supervision, they were taught by a succession of governesses and tutors, who...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mona Caird
Oenone Evelyn, who had an unhappy marriage and a relationship with a Russian anarchist in her past, feels a mutual attraction to her fellow artist Launcelot Sumner, but whereas her work is angled towards combating...
Material Conditions of Writing
Antonia Fraser
This 70,000-word retelling of Sir Thomas Malory
Wroe, Nicholas. “The history woman”. The Guardian, 24 Aug. 2002, pp. 16-19.
Further editions and translations into European languages quickly followed; in 1877 CG
put out a single-volume, condensed version without the original Welsh, and in the same year the American professor of literature and former Confederate...
Textual Features
Evelyn Sharp
Nicolete Damer in the story is called after the medieval legend of Aucassin and Nicolette just as her closest brother is called Cassy, short for Aucassin.
In 1979-81 RS
published a trilogy of books, The Sword and the Circle, The Light Beyond the Forest, and The Road to Camlann, which were subsequently re-issued together as The King Arthur...
Timeline
By 3 March 1470: Sir Thomas Malory, a political prisoner in...
Writing climate item
By 3 March 1470
Sir Thomas Malory
, a political prisoner in London, most probably in the Tower, finished compiling and writing his collection of legendary Arthurian
romances, Le Morte d'Arthur.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
31 July 1485: Fourteen years after the death of the author,...
Writing climate item
31 July 1485
Fourteen years after the death of the author, Sir Thomas Malory
, a printer who was probably William Caxton
dated his edition of Le Morte d'Arthur, the most famous English collection of Arthurian
romances...
1863: Under the name of Mrs T. K. Hervey, Eleanora...
Women writers item
1863
Under the name of Mrs T. K. Hervey, Eleanora Louisa Hervey
published The Feasts of Camelot, with the Tales that were Told There.
17 June 1938: T. H. White published, as a book for children,...
Writing climate item
17 June 1938
T. H. White
published, as a book for children, The Sword in the Stone, about the childhood of King Arthur (known here as the Wart).
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
17 June 2009
Texts
Malory, Sir Thomas. Le Morte d’Arthur. Printed by William Caxton, 1485, 2 vols.