Shoshana Milgram Knapp

Standard Name: Knapp, Shoshana Milgram

Connections

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Education	Victoria Cross	While her sisters are known to have attended a small boarding school in England, it is unknown whether Annie Sophie, or VC , ever had any form of institutionalised lower schooling in England or India...
Literary responses	Victoria Cross	More recently Knapp has noted that Anna's infidelity goes both ways: in desiring Gaida, she is untrue to her higher nature; in loving Gerald while married to Gaida, she is untrue to her husband...
Literary responses	Victoria Cross	Sewell Stokes , in a brief portrait of VC in 1928, described her as one who had at one time been accused of poisoning the purity of British homes with her sordid writings ....
Textual Features	Victoria Cross	Scholar and biographer Shoshana Milgram Knapp argues that Theodora, despite the daring and sensuality that make her appealing to Cecil, is a deliberately ambiguous figure in the narrative, presented as a phenomenon for study, and...
Textual Features	Victoria Cross	VC 's work demonstrates a consistent non-conformity with bourgeois values on a range of issues. Most notably these relate to marriage, but she was also critical of organised religion, Western spirituality, and Western medicine. Charlotte Mitchell
Textual Production	Victoria Cross	In 1910 The Love of Kusuma: An Eastern Love Story appeared in print, with an introduction by VC . While the novel purports to be by Bal Krishna, translated from Hindustani, Charlotte Mitchell

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Texts

Knapp, Shoshana Milgram. “Real Passion and the Reverence for Life: Sexuality and Antivivisection in the Fiction of Victoria Cross”. Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers, 1889-1939, edited by Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai, University of North Carolina Press, 1993, pp. 156-71.

Knapp, Shoshana Milgram. “Revolutionary Androgyny in the Fiction of ’Victoria Cross’”. Seeing Double: Revisioning Edwardian and Modernist Literature, edited by Carola M. Kaplan and Anne B. Simpson, St Martin’s Press, 1996, pp. 3-19.