Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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death | John Dryden | After an immediate burial at St Anne's Church, Soho, Dryden was given a Westminster Abbey funeral and buried in the grave of Chaucer
. |
Education | U. A. Fanthorpe | Here, she said later, she came to life under the influence of her tutor, Dorothy Bednarowska
, who taught me to read on the nuance and complexity of Chaucer
's Troilus and Criseyde. This... |
Education | Annie Tinsley | |
Education | Dora Greenwell | Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 199 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke, 1885. 73 |
Education | Catherine Cookson | As a young adult CC
took on her own education. With varying degrees of success she studied grammar, elocution, French, and the violin. She also discovered the public library. Colleagues at work got her to... |
Education | Charlotte Guest | Lady Charlotte received a standard home education. She soon found that she loved serious learning and set out to pursue it. Studying on her own, she discovered and devoured Chaucer
(from whom as an old... |
Education | Julian of Norwich | Julian of Norwich
may have been a learned woman; but if so it is not clear who taught her. She seems to have had a reading knowledge of Latin, and to have known the work... |
Education | Marjorie Bowen | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mina Loy | ML
met fellow art student Stephen Haweis
at the Académie Colarossi
. He was an example of pure British privilege who deliberately defied convention. Burke, Carolyn. Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1996. 67 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Smythies | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christine Brooke-Rose | This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen
of a great German contemporary of Austen:... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Delarivier Manley | These novellas follow at more than one remove writers further back than Painter (Boccaccio
, Matteo Bandello
, Marguerite de Navarre
, and Chaucer
) in refashioning and retelling traditional stories. Most dated back... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Byron | Chaucer
's depiction of Rumour's house in the sky in the Hous of Fame inspired her to think of a poetic space open to all voices, currents, weathers. Byron, Catherine. Emails about Catherine Byron to Rebecca Blasco. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Stewart | The novel is set in southern France: the action begins in Avignon and concludes in Marseilles. Epigraphs to chapters range through the traditional English literary canon—Chaucer
, Spenser
, Shakespeare
, Robert Browning |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | DPC
was one of those claiming serious status for the novel by literary allusion. She uses Horace
on her title-page, Pope
to head the whole novel, and for chapter-headings Chaucer
, Shakespeare
, Goldsmith
... |
Timeline
1255
A child later known as Hugh of Lincoln
was found dead in that city, and his murder (and torture with other aggravating circumstances) was unjustly blamed on the Jewish community, against whom savage reprisals...
1372-1386
Geoffrey Chaucer
circulated in manuscript his unfinished Legende of Good Women.
About 1385
Geoffrey Chaucer
published (in manuscript) his narrative poemTroilus and Criseide.
1388-1400
Geoffrey Chaucer
wrote The Canterbury Tales, and gave them some currency in manuscript.
1477
William Caxton
printed an edition of Geoffrey Chaucer
's composite narrative poemThe Canterbury Tales.
1593
The Testament of Cresseid by Robert Henryson
(one of the Scottish Chaucerians) was printed nearly a century after his death; it redraws the character of Chaucer
's fallen heroine.
1593
The Testament of Cresseid by Robert Henryson
(one of the Scottish Chaucerians) was printed nearly a century after his death; it redraws the character of Chaucer
's fallen heroine.
19 June 1725
Dorothy Stanley
, née Milborne, published by subscription Sir Philip Sidney
's Arcadia Moderniz'd, in four books (coinciding with the thirteenth edition of the original romance).
English Short Title Catalogue.
1863
Under the name of Mrs T. K. Hervey, Eleanora Louisa Hervey
published The Feasts of Camelot, with the Tales that were Told There.
1868
Frederick Startridge Ellis
began his publishing career by issuing (in a single volume) parts one and two of William Morris
's poem or series of poems The Earthly Paradise.
14 May 1885
Americans Elizabeth Robins Pennell
and Joseph Pennell
dated their preface to A Canterbury Pilgrimage (written by her, illustrated by him) about a three-day journey by tandem tricycle from London to Canterbury loosely following the footsteps...
26 June 1896
William Morris
's Kelmscott Press
published the works of Chaucer
, one of its most splendid and famous productions.
1 November 1907
The British Museum
's reading room reopened after being cleaned and redecorated; the dome was embellished with the names of canonical male writers, beginning with Chaucer
and ending with Browning
.
After 18 March 1954
English-educated, American historical or biographicalnovelist Anya Seton
issued her best-known work, Katherine, about the commoner from whom descends every English monarch since Henry VII
.
1965