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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 |
Education | Jane Gardam | When she was little Jean Mary Pearson's father (later unapproachable) would read Hans Andersen
to her, which she loved. She was considered by her family not to be intelligent, but she taught herself to read... |
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... |
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... |
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 | 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 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 |
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 | Naomi Jacob | One of NJ
's favourite home occupations even as a small child was improvised acting, with her sister in spear-carrying roles. She also learned cricket and football, and her grandfather Collinson taught her whist. She... |
Education | Alice Munro | |
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... |
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 |
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... |