McConville, Brigid. “Born to write”. Mslexia, No. 32, pp. 9-12.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maya Angelou | This volume has much less about her intellectual development than its predecessor, but MA
mentions that as her work began to dabble on the verge of criminality she discovered the Russian writers, beginning with... |
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 | 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 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Bishop | The volume reproduces in facsimile no fewer than sixteen drafts of one of EB
's best-known poems, One Art; Quinn's notes include snippets of rejection letters from the New Yorker. White, Gillian. “Awful but Cheerful”. London Review of Books, pp. 8-10. 10 |
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 |
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 | 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... |
Textual Production | Constance Garnett | CG
's translation of Dostoevsky
's The Brothers Karamazov appeared: this version, suggested to her by Arnold Bennett
, was the first time that any of Dostoevsky's works had been translated into English. Heilbrun, Carolyn. The Garnett Family. Allen and Unwin. 188 TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 547 (4 July 1912): 269 Tomalin, Clare. “Constance Garnett (1861 - 1946)”. Breaking Bounds. Six Newnham Lives, edited by Biddy Passmore, Newnham College, pp. 14-25. 22 |
Author summary | Constance Garnett | |
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... |
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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Storm Jameson | Jameson briefly praises the writings of Mansfield
, Conrad
, Hardy
, and James
, along with Willa Cather
and Sinclair Lewis
. However, she concentrates her study on the way other Georgian authors have... |
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 |
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... |