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.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Phebe Gibbes | In addition to its over-riding themes of colonialism and the marriage market, this novel, set in early British Calcutta (and incorporating a good deal of travel book material), is much concerned with literature and with... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Gerard | This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine |
| Textual Features | Sarah Fyge | The volume nicely mixes the personal and political. SF
shows daring in expressions of love and of refusal to accept conventional restraints of all kinds. She reprints all four of her poems on Dryden
's... |
| Anthologization | Sarah Fyge | SF
contributed an elegy on Dryden
's death to The Nine Muses; she wrote the same year for another collection on the same topic. Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 30-1 |
| Textual Features | Anne Francis | An Argument explains the poem's source in Plutarch. AF
's hero, whose father was an associate of Alexander the Great
, is dead after many vicissitudes. His ashes make a triumphal progress by sea from... |
| Literary responses | Frances, Lady Norton | The reception of this volume, dictated by Gethin's position as her father's only child and heir, and as an exemplary pattern of female excellence, rather than by consideration of the literary quality of her work... |
| Textual Production | Anne Finch | Dundee
's death, distressing news for Jacobites, drew a lament in Latin by Archibald Pitcairne
, translated by Dryden
. Eicke, Leigh. “’You that have borne the cause of Kings’: Anne Finch’s Jacobite Writing”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Milwaukee, WI. |
| Performance of text | Alison Fell | AF
was a constant source of scenes, burlesques, and improvisations for performance by the Women's Liberation Street Theatre Group
. She also wrote for a number of underground or radical papers: Ink, Islington Gutter... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Fanshawe | The poems by CF
include an Elegy on the Abrogation of the Birthnight Ball (her lament, in the person of an elderly beau, for the passing of the old-fashioned minuet: an orgy of grandiose parody... |
| Textual Production | Ephelia | The book was handsomely produced, having a decorated dedication page, and a frontispiece featuring an oval portrait (or fictitious portrait) of Ephelia, with a heraldic badge above the picture and a pedestal bearing her engraved... |
| Textual Production | T. S. Eliot | They printed about 460 copies. The label on the wrapper survives in three different states, as did the label of the previous Hogarth edition of work by Eliot. The Woolfs were to print one more... |
| Textual Production | Carol Ann Duffy | CAD
's volume of public poems composed as national Laureate, Ritual Lighting, with illustrations by |
| Textual Features | Judith Drake | Its boldness in argument—seeking to lift women to an Equallity [sic] Drake, Judith. An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. A. Roper, E. Wilkinson, and R. Clavel, http://U of A, Special Collections. A2 |
| Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Douglas | LED
marked the death from smallpox of her elder grandson with Sions Lamentation, Lord Henry Hastings
, His Funerals Blessing. This was the young man whose death Dryden
lamented with extravagant hyperbole in his... |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Despard | CD
's second novel, Wandering Fires (titled from John Dryden
), appeared the same year as Chaste as Ice, Pure as Snow. |
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