DeJean, Joan E. Fictions of Sappho 1546-1937. University of Chicago Press, 1989.
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Fictionalization | Sappho | Alphonse Daudet
's novel Sapho represents its protagonist as a lower-class prostitute with a heart of gold. DeJean, Joan E. Fictions of Sappho 1546-1937. University of Chicago Press, 1989. 259-60 |
Friends, Associates | Henry James | In Paris his friend Ivan Turgenev
introduced him to Maupassant
, Zola
, and Daudet
, among others. Stringer, Jenny, editor. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English. Oxford University Press, 1996. Gale, Robert L. A Henry James Encyclopedia. Greenwood, 1989. xx |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | Without ever owning the complete works of Théophile Gautier
, Alphonse Daudet
, Shakespeare
, Byron
, or Swinburne
, she read bits and pieces of them all, and they helped to shape her style... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Grand | She again set her novel in her fictionalised version of Norwich, Morningquest. Of its three heroines, Angelica makes a moderately successful, though unconventional marriage to a man twenty years her senior to whom she... |
Reception | Violet Trefusis | |
Textual Features | Lucas Malet | The epigraph, from FitzGerald
's Omar Khayyam, says that human beings are nothing but God's chess-pieces, or shadows cast by his lantern. The story is narrated by one man to another: by Anthony Hammond... |
Textual Production | Nell Dunn | In 1987 ND
produced an introduction for a new edition of Sappho, A Romance of Art and Love, the translation by Eithne Wilkins
of Alphonse Daudet
's Sapho. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Fanny Kemble | The subtitle reads: Stolen from the French of Tartaron de Tareascon aux Alpes: the reference is actually to Alphonse Daudet
's Tartarin sur les Alpes, which she here imitates. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marie Belloc Lowndes | This book deals very largely with her French extended family, her visits to France as a young adult, and her French social circles. She meant it to dispel certain false ideas, English rather than American... |
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