Byron, Catherine. Emails about Catherine Byron to Rebecca Blasco.
Connections
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Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Brereton | JB
's true attitude to her own poetic vocation is hard to fathom. In An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele
upon the Death of Mr. Addison she calls herself the meanest of the tuneful... |
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. |
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
... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edna St Vincent Millay | She writes often here about the landscape and plants at Steepletop, using them as a metaphor for life and joy and the past. The final piece included in her Selected Poems, 2003, a... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Agnes Strickland | Her historical romance The Pilgrims of Walsingham, 1835, is written on the Canterbury Tales model (as practised originally by Chaucer
and more recently by Harriet Lee
and her sister
). AS
's pilgrims who... |
Intertextuality and Influence | U. A. Fanthorpe | UAF
was anthologized by Adrian Barlow
in Calling Kindred: Poems from the English Speaking World, 1993. At Poetry International 2000, she chose Robert Browning
as her Presiding Spirit. Connolly, Sally. “Woolly whispers of the past”. Times Literary Supplement, p. 25. 25 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Strutt | ES
balances her story of love and adventure with the depiction of everyday life in a Scottish castle, including food, clothing, pastimes, heraldry, and chivalric tournaments, Stevens, Anne. “Tales of Other Times: A Survey of British Historical Fiction, 1770-1812”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol. 7 . |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Fyge | In Lady Campbell, with a Female Advocate, SF
calls her first published work fatal: Go, fatal book, she writes, Fyge, Sarah. Poems on Several Occasions. J. Nutt. 22 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Louisa Stuart | The story recalls that of Chaucer
's Wyf of Bath's Tale. A Scottish chieftain has three ugly daughters: his formidable wife makes him marry the ugliest of all to his defeated, handsome enemy, instead... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caryl Churchill | The first act makes brilliant use of historical anachronism, bringing together six women—some fictional, some actual—from different historical periods: nineteenth-century Scottish traveller Isabella Bird
; Lady Nijo
, a thirteenth-century Japanese courtesan turned nun; the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Pym | The central characters here are Jane Cleveland, a kindly and somewhat fey Oxford
don, and Prudence Bates, Jane's former student and surrogate daughter. Jane's main preoccupation is matchmaking for Prudence: she likens herself not only... |
Timeline
December 1965: Actress Peggy Ashcroft toured Norway with...
Women writers item
December 1965
Actress Peggy Ashcroft
toured Norway with a show of her own devising, Words on Women and Some Women's Words, originally written for performance at London University
.
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