Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009.
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Education | Elizabeth Taylor | Her first school, where she went at the age of six, was a little private establishment called Leopold House, which gave a grounding in English and maths and team games. Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009. 12-13 |
Education | Dora Russell | Back in England, she was tutored by her father in Greek and Latin; her reading of the Medea by Euripides
later informed her first book, Hypatia; or, Woman and Knowledge. Dora then earned a... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Evelyn Waugh | Waugh presents himself as having been born into a world of beauty and preparing to die amid ugliness, an exile from the conditions of his childhood and youth. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (10 September 1964): 836 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Pat Barker | Here Barker retains the main lines of a story related by Homer
, but from the mostly unexplored women's viewpoint (where she is given a lead by Euripides
' powerful play The Trojan Women)... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caryl Churchill | This play weaves together seven contemporary stories with Euripides
' The Bacchae. Churchill, Caryl, and David Lan. A Mouthful of Birds. Methuen and Joint Stock Theatre Group, 1986. prelims Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996. 112 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Liz Lochhead | LL
says that she used Euripides
as a complete structural template but then let go. Lochhead, Liz, and Euripides. Medea. Nick Hern, 2000. foreword |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dora Russell | This polemic was heavily influenced by her reading of Euripides
' Medea during her adolescence, and by her later outlook on modern sex education, marriage, and motherhood. Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975. 1: 32 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | KKD
's concern about the treatment of women is further exemplified in her poem on the fetishization of Sylvia Plath
's suicide, Myths and Monsters. Dyson suggests that Plath's martyrdom occurred out of a... |
Intertextuality and Influence | A. Mary F. Robinson | The title piece is a verse drama, a metrical translation Robertson, Eric Sutherland. English Poetesses. Cassell, 1883. 377 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Ellen Harrison | Harrison was always engaged in debates with her colleagues at Cambridge
and elsewhere: her writing here was inspired in part by Gilbert Murray
's unorthodox translation of Euripides
' Hippolytus, published in 1902. Both... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Neil Harwood | |
Literary responses | Ethel M. Dell | She judged that EMD
dealt honestly with human feelings, with the problems of the heart and the conscience. Nor was it, she insisted, absurd to compare her with Euripides
or Shakespeare
; in an image... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Lady Jane Lumley | Soon after she became a child bride, LJL
, still living in her father
's house, made the earliest extant English translation of a Greek tragedy: Iphigeneia from Euripides
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Maya Angelou | Back in the USA, when a projected vocation in politics died with Malcolm X
, she returned to nightclub singing, then, after recuperating emotionally, to the dream of becoming a writer. Meanwhile she got a... |
Occupation | Florence Farr | FF
composed the music and led the chorus for Harley Granville-Barker
's production of Euripides
' Hippolytus, translated by Gilbert Murray
and performed at the Court Theatre
. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe, 1975. 111 |