Seymour, Miranda. “The Hand from the Grave”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 191-5.
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George Ivanovich Gurdjieff
Standard Name: Gurdjieff, George Ivanovich
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | P. L. Travers | The influence of Zen Buddhism is evident in PLT
's articles for Parabola. Influenced by the work of George Ivanovich Gurdjieff
, and by Karlfried Graf Dürckheim
, she developed an intellectual interest in Zen... |
| Friends, Associates | Laura Riding | In the USA they went to stay with Schuyler Jackson
and his wife Katherine or Kit
at their farm in Pennsylvania. |
| Friends, Associates | P. L. Travers | In Paris, in about 1930, she is thought to have met and dined at the table of Haggarty, Ben. “Refining Nectar”. A Lively Oracle: A Centennial Celebration of P.L. Travers, Creator of Mary Poppins, edited by Ellen Dooling Draper and Jenny Koralek, Published for the Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation by Larson Publications, 1999, pp. 19-24. 21 |
| Health | Katherine Mansfield | KM
left Paris for the Prieuré des Basses Loges, at Avon near Fontainebleau, where she entered the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man
run by George Ivanovich Gurdjieff
. Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982. 418, 367, 375 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | P. L. Travers | PLT
wrote George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, about the life and teachings of Gurdjieff
, the Russian mystic, spiritualist, and teacher of dancing whose philosophy had influenced her thinking. Demers, Patricia. P.L. Travers. Twayne, 1991. xii |
| Literary responses | Leonora Carrington | Helen Byatt
traces the quests of The Hearing Trumpet to texts the author encountered as a child, including the pre-Christian fairy tales and Celtic narratives shared by her nanny and maternal relatives along with Robert Graves |
| Literary Setting | P. L. Travers | A climactic scene at the London Zoo
(where Jane and Michael are transported by Mary Poppins on a night of full moon) presents the usual order of things magically transformed or reversed. The animals are... |
Timeline
1907: Alfred Richard Orage and Holbrook Jackson...
Writing climate item
1907
Alfred Richard Orage
and Holbrook Jackson
acquired the weekly review New Age (founded in 1894).
Kindley, Evan. “Ismism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 2, 23 Jan. 2014, pp. 33-5. 34
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Orage
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