Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Ouida | |
Education | Caroline Clive | CC
's education took place at home. 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. |
Education | H. D. | Following her withdrawal from Bryn Mawr, HD (with Pound
's assistance) embarked on an intensive independent study programme that lasted for five years. During this period she read and studied writers such as William Morris |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Clive | |
Fictionalization | George Sand | GS
was portrayed as Mademoiselle de Touches in Balzac
's novel Béatrix, a fictionalized account of the love affair between Franz Liszt
and Marie d'Agoult
. Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976. 170-1 |
Friends, Associates | George Sand | It was while working for the Figaro that she met Honoré de Balzac
and the journalist Henri de Latouche
. Another writer who became a friend and mentor to her was critic Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
. Jack, Belinda. George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large. Vintage, 2001. 174-6 Jaeger, Muriel. Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. G. Bell and Sons, 1932. 192 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Pamela Hansford Johnson | In each novel Toby, who comes from a lower-middle-class South London background and is sharply aware of the utility of women for a handsome young man like himself with the intention of rising in the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lucas Malet | Though ML was familiar with the canonical English Victorian novelists (and, less usually, with Samuel Richardson
's Sir Charles Grandison, to whose great length she alludes with approval), those writers she acknowledged as influences... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Natalie Clifford Barney | Like her earlier novels, this one seems to be partly based on her relationship with Renée Vivien
, who committed suicide twenty years before it was published. The story is told from the point of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Charlotte's Inheritance treats the Stock Exchange
and a poisoner based on art critic and murderer Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
. Both these books, according to Wolff, reveal the influence of Collins
and Balzac
, about whose... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Brookner | This book, abounding in satirical vignettes, is the first of AB
's anti-romances. Its protagonist is a university lecturer who, looking back at forty on her experience since childhood, knew that her life had been... |
Literary responses | Ouida | The Athenæum criticized this novel for mock eloquence Athenæum. J. Lection. 2016 (16 June 1866): 797 Athenæum. J. Lection. 2016 (16 June 1866): 798 |
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 | Ellen Wood | Charles Wood points this out: such a review was rare, and it directed the whole English-speaking world to the work fortunate enough to gain its notice. Wood, C. W. Memorials of Mrs. Henry Wood. Third, R. Bentley and Son, 1895. 245 |
Timeline
1827: French novelist Honoré de Balzac began publishing...
Writing climate item
1827
French novelist Honoré de Balzac
began publishing his series of ninety-one interconnected novels and stories, the Comédie humaine.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
1833: Honoré de Balzac published his novel Eugénie...
Writing climate item
1833
Honoré de Balzac
published his novel Eugénie Grandet.
Petit Larousse, illustré, 1980. Librairie Larousse, 1980.
1834: Honoré de Balzac's novel Esther Heureuse,...
Writing climate item
1834
Honoré de Balzac
's novel Esther Heureuse, part of his Comédie humaine, appeared, introducing those who were able to read it in French to an early representation of l'amour sapphique or lesbianism.
Linton, Eliza Lynn. “Introduction”. The Rebel of the Family, edited by Deborah T. Meem, Broadview, 2002, pp. 9-18.
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Linton, Eliza Lynn. “Introduction”. The Rebel of the Family, edited by Deborah T. Meem, Broadview, 2002, pp. 9-18.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
1846: Honoré de Balzac published La Cousine Be...
Writing climate item
1846
Honoré de Balzac
published La Cousine Bette.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Texts
Balzac, Honoré de. La Comédie humaine. Furné, 1849, 17 vols.