Geoffrey Chaucer

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Standard Name: Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Clara Balfour
In her general overview of the history of English literature during these centuries, she focuses especially on English poets because as she says, great poets not only give form, power and beauty to a nation's...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Cooper
Her selection runs from Edward the Confessor to Samuel Daniel . (The title-page mentions Gower , Langland, and Chaucer.) For each poet she provides a short biography and a scholarly and critical preface. Her judgements...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Virginia Woolf
The book's contents consisted largely of already published journalism, carefully revised for the collection.
McNeillie, Andrew, and Virginia Woolf. “Introduction”. The Common Reader, Annotated Edition, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, p. ix - xv.
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Woolf had put detailed consideration into the idea of making a structure for the book, but she ended by rejecting...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Carol Ann Duffy
Alongside poems on national occasions, public sites, widely revered figures like Chaucer and Shakespeare , stand some deeply personal poems, like Pathway (which the Guardian reprinted on 27 September), in which the poet sees her...
Textual Production Laura Riding
LR published A Trojan Ending, her novel about Cressida, the Greek heroine of Chaucer , Robert Henryson , and Shakespeare .
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
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Wexler, Joyce Piell. Laura Riding: A Bibliography. Garland.
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Textual Production Samuel Beckett
SB 's first-drafted novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, remained unpublished until after his death.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Its allusive title (making fun of Tennyson 's poem A Dream of Fair Women, which itself is...
Textual Production Doreen Wallace
DW followed this with two social-issue novels: So Long to Learn, 1936 (titled with a quotation from Chaucer ), a topical story about the tithe wars, and Old Father Antic, 1937, a story...
Textual Production Marjorie Bowen
MB recalls being influenced at an early age by her enjoyment of Tennyson 's Idylls of the King, Wilde 's Picture of Dorian Gray, the novels of Sir Walter Scott , and Richardson
Textual Production Wendy Cope
Again many poems first appeared in periodicals, from Mslexia to the Times Literary Supplement. Again there were earlier separate printings and particular commissions. An extended narrative poem, The Teacher's Tale, was commissioned for...
Textual Production Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A copy of the manuscript exists in microfiche.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
In 1873 she wrote another play, Griselda (based on Chaucer 's The Clerk's Tale), as a vehicle for her friend Clara Dowse Rousby . It was...
Textual Production Harriet Lee
HL published Canterbury Tales for the Year 1797, the first volume of the work which was to make her famous Geoffrey Chaucer.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 22 (1798): 170
Textual Production Christina Stead
Having accepted her novel Seven Poor Men of Sydney, Peter Llewelyn Davies had wanted to publish it as her second work, to follow something else less unconventional. He got as far as advertising another...
Textual Production Catherine Byron
CB began work on a new media project entitled The Hous of Rumour: A Structure Wide Open to Voices and the Elements, incorporating poetry, memoir and new media writing.
The spelling of Hous underlines...
Textual Production Maureen Duffy
MD 's website features a series of poems indignantly addressed to William Langland , author of Piers Plowman, of behalf of the new, unacknowledged poor. The New Vision of Piers Plowless sets the scene:...
Textual Production Catherine Carswell
CC 's busiest literary decade was the 1930s, years after she stopped writing novels. She kept reviewing, and began a new career as a broadcaster. She co-edited two anthologies with Daniel George : A National...

Timeline

1255: A child later known as Hugh of Lincoln was...

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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...

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1372-1386

Geoffrey Chaucer circulated in manuscript his unfinished Legende of Good Women.

About 1385: Geoffrey Chaucer published (in manuscript)...

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About 1385

Geoffrey Chaucer published (in manuscript) his narrative poemTroilus and Criseide.

1388-1400: Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales,...

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1388-1400

Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, and gave them some currency in manuscript.

1477: William Caxton printed an edition of Geoffrey...

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1477

William Caxton printed an edition of Geoffrey Chaucer 's composite narrative poemThe Canterbury Tales.

1593: The Testament of Cresseid by Robert Henryson...

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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...

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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...

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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. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1863: Under the name of Mrs T. K. Hervey, Eleanora...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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: Margaret Stanley Wrench translated and supplied...

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1965

Margaret Stanley Wrench translated and supplied an introdction for Chaucer 's Troilus and Criseyde.

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