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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Patricia Beer | Other unsettling topics addressed in this collection are the funeral of a conjuror, the martyrdom of an English Jesuit in 1606 (The Prayer of Father Garnet), and the neurotic fears of fairytale author... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | EBB
had written her final composition, The North and the South, in honour of Hans Christian Andersen
, who visited her in Rome at this time. It appeared in print the following year in Last Poems. Garrett, Martin. A Browning Chronology: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Macmillan. 122 Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press. 398 |
Textual Production | Rumer Godden | RG
published her eminently readablebiography of Hans Christian Andersen
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 161 British Book News. British Council. (1955): 1193 |
Textual Production | Mary Howitt | MH
published her first translations from Hans Christian Andersen
, The Improvisatore; or, Life in Italy and Only a Fiddler!; they were the first English versions ever made from his Danish. 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. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 143-5, 150 Athenæum. J. Lection. 906 (1845): 235 |
Textual Production | Mary Howitt | Having taught herself Swedish during her sojourn in Germany, MH
formed a taste for Swedish and Danish literature, and a determination to introduce it into English. She tackled the contemporary writers Fredrika Bremer
and... |
Textual Production | Mary Howitt | The museum at Odense in Denmark, birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen
, holds some MH
material. A copy of R. H. Horne
's A New Spirit of the Age in Harvard University Library
has... |
Textual Features | Christina Rossetti | Influences that manifested themselves somewhat later in CR
's career were those of fairy tales—Perrault
, Keightley
, and later Hans Christian Andersen
—and later poets including Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, whom... |
Textual Features | Margaret Gatty | Juliana Ewing
pointed out that some of the stories (The Smut, The Crick, and The Brothers, all in a section called The Black Bag) were not her mother's contributions. They... |
Reception | E. Nesbit | EN
's books for children brought her extensive fan-mail from readers. She was conscientious about answering them, often in long letters discussing some moral problem such as the attempt to control one's temper. Some of... |
Publishing | Alison Uttley | AU
published The Washerwoman's Child, A Play on the Life and Stories of Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Irene Hawkins
. Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph. 166, 198, 283 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Stella Gibbons | The title page quotes Sir Thomas Browne
and Hans Christian Andersen
's The Snow Queen, and the book is loosely based on the fairy tale. The autobiographical heroine, Amy, is an aspiring writer working... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | In EdinburghER
attended an August 1847 dinner party given to celebrate the completion of the Scott Monument in Princes Street. Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 62 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | Visitors who stayed with the Howitts at The Elms included Hans Christian Andersen
, Tennyson
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, and Eliza Meteyard
, who wrote as Silver Pen. Their circle also included Charles Dickens |
Education | Evelyn Sharp | ES
received her first education at home, from her sisters Ethel, Bertha, and Mabel (the eldest), who taught the younger ones Bible stories on Sundays. At the same time she imbibed from her brothers the... |
Education | Christina Stead | CS
's father
would have liked to have her education entirely in his own hands. The first books to be her favourites were the works of W. T. Stead
, and fairy stories by the... |