McConville, Brigid. “Born to write”. Mslexia, No. 32, pp. 9-12.
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Anthologization | Anna Livia | Anna Livia
has published her short stories in such periodicals as Spinster, Sinister Wisdom, Lesbian Ethics, and Girljock. She has also included her fiction in anthologies edited by Lilian Mohin
,... |
Education | Patricia Highsmith | PH
went to various schools. She was removed from her first NewYork public school because her grandmother objected to her making friends with black children. Then came a small and select private school which she... |
Education | Elizabeth Taylor | Betty Coles's first reading was Beatrix Potter
, then Lewis CarrollAlice in Wonderland and E. Nesbit
, whose Bastable stories she read over and over again. Though her parents were not bookish people she progressed at... |
Education | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | She read voraciously, preferring writers with the geographical rootedness which she herself lacked: George Eliot
, Thomas Hardy
, Charles Dickens
, and from beyond the English tradition Marcel Proust
, James Joyce
, Henry James |
Education | Pat Barker | PB
, living in an almost completely book-free environment (though their few books included some tattered volumes of Arthur Mee
's The Children's Encyclopaedia), McConville, Brigid. “Born to write”. Mslexia, No. 32, pp. 9-12. 11 |
Education | Dora Carrington | Carrington began to alter herself in other ways also. During her first term at the Slade she began to go by her surname only. Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press. 13 |
Education | Harold Pinter | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Jolley | The narrative voice (a Scottish one, apparently as a kind of joke) is complex and shifting, with irony fed by unstable reference to the central couple (now Muriel and Henry, now Mother and Father, and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Angela Carter | In mid-career AC
said she had worked mainly with women as her publishers' editors. Shared gender makes a difference in this relationship, she wrote, even if the reader has zero feminist consciousness. Carter, Angela. “Notes from the Front Line”. On Gender and Writing, edited by Michelene Wandor, Pandora Press, pp. 69-77. 72 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Quin | In her short autobiographical article Leaving School—XI, AQ
mentions having been writing stories since the age of seven to entertain myself. Quin, Ann. “Leaving School—XI”. London Magazine, Vol. new series 6 , pp. 63-8. 64 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Desai | AD
's work weaves together a wide range of cultural and literary references: the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgîtâ, as well as such European authors as E. M. Forster
, T. S. Eliot
, Dickinson |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maureen Duffy | MD
uses Dostoyevsky
's Brothers Karamazov for her epigraph. The wounds of the title, both hidden and visible, are of many kinds, physical and emotional. The characters, a large cast of them, are offered each... |
Literary responses | Patricia Highsmith | Novelist Brigid Brophy
, who also likened PH
to Dostoevsky
, Dirda, Michael. “This Woman Is Dangerous”. The Guardian, p. between pp. 12 and 13. between 12 and 13 |
Literary responses | Alice Walker | Reviews were mixed (one pronounced occasionally ponderous as well as poignant and personal). White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton. 188 |