Seymour, Miranda. “The Hand from the Grave”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 191-5.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Laura Riding | LR
was now the sexual and intellectual partner of Schuyler Jackson
. Seymour, Miranda. “The Hand from the Grave”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 191-5. 193 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laura Riding | LR
married Schuyler Jackson
at Elkton, Maryland, in a shabby ministry in a shabby town where marriage formalities can be briefly executed. qtd. in Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books, 2005. 365 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laura Riding | LR
's husband Schuyler Jackson
died in a hospital emergency room while waiting for attention and medication. Though he had had severe health problems for years, his death came as a complete shock Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books, 2005. 415 |
Fictionalization | Laura Riding | Critic Jerome McGann
asserts that LR
, while making no claim to transcendent poetic power, makes poetry out of her own power to rise above her subject. In this he associates her with Felicia Hemans |
Friends, Associates | Laura Riding | On Mallorca LR
actively sought collaborators in her ambitious intellectual quests. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books, 2005. 184 |
Friends, Associates | Laura Riding | In the USA they went to stay with Schuyler Jackson
and his wife Katherine or Kit
at their farm in Pennsylvania. Seymour, Miranda. “The Hand from the Grave”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 191-5. 193 |
Literary responses | Laura Riding | The volume was praised by Humbert Wolfe
and Janet Adam Smith
, but called by the Times Literary Supplementoften extremely difficult and occasionally annoying in its word play, shifting meanings, and free association. Geoffrey Grigson |
Publishing | Laura Riding | That change in life-course, however, put a lengthy stop to work on the dictionary. On 8 September 1942, by which time she was working on it with Schuyler Jackson
and a new contract had been... |
Reception | Laura Riding | LR
and Schuyler Jackson
considered what was to become Rational Meaningthe crowning achievement of their writing life. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books, 2005. 389 |
Textual Production | Laura Riding | |
Textual Production | Laura Riding | This was re-issued at New York in 1973 and 1993. LR
now, since the death of Schuyler Jackson
, was in need of earning money. She dedicated the volume to her London editor, Patricia Butler |
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