British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1976
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Anne, Lady Southwell | Both are replies to writing by men: the certain Southwell ascription answers Donne
's Newes from the very Country, and the almost-certain one to Overbury
's own Newes from Court. Details in the... |
| Textual Production | Anne, Lady Southwell | ALS
wrote two letters in 1623 from Castle Poulnelong to eminent men in support of property rights claimed by a male family friend. These letters are now at Chatsworth in Derbyshire. Two extended poems... |
| Friends, Associates | Anne, Lady Southwell | The Southwell family had connections with the court and with London literary society. Anne Southwell's mother-in-law, Alice
(née Cornwallis), who was a cousin of the essayist William Cornwallis
, may have enabled Anne to meet... |
| Reception | Mary Astell | Astell's late twentieth-century reputation as a feminist foremother led to a biography by Ruth Perry
(1986), a one-volume selection of her work edited by Bridget Hill
(The First English Feminist, 1986), and editions... |
| Textual Production | Patricia Beer | PB
published Driving West: Poems, whose contents balance the urban and rural; its title suggests Donne
's Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward, but the name this poem invokes is Henry Fielding
, the lawyer on circuit. Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research. 26 |
| Textual Production | Phyllis Bottome | It was published by John Lane
in London and by Houghton Mifflin Company
in Boston and New York. Although PB
had been interested in mental illness since childhood, the novel developed more directly from... |
| Literary responses | Anne Bradstreet | This book appeared in a publisher's catalogue of 1657 listing the most marketable books in England. (The list included all the great male names, from Shakespeare
and Donne
to Crashaw
and Vaughan
, but only... |
| Textual Features | Christine Brooke-Rose | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Cicely Bulstrode | Despite the eminent respectability of these friends, the unmarried CB
acquired a reputation for promiscuity. Poems by Sir John Roe
and Ben Jonson
, and a letter from John Donne
, make casual charges connecting... |
| death | Cicely Bulstrode | She was buried two days later, on 6 August 1609. At least two of her former detractors, Jonson
and Donne
, wrote verse commemorations after her death. |
| Literary responses | Cicely Bulstrode | During CB
's lifetime Ben Jonson
attacked her by calling her both a fool and a whore. After her death, both he and John Donne
eulogized her morals and also her wit. |
| 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 | Anne Carson | AC
's contributions include rendering Fragment 286 by the Greek poet Ibykos
in the manner successively of various more modern voices: John Donne
, Samuel Beckett
, Franz Kafka
, an FBI
report on Bertolt Brecht |
| Occupation | Lady Anne Clifford | |
| Education | Catherine Cookson | As a young adult CC
took on her own education. With varying degrees of success she studied grammar, elocution, French, and the violin. She also discovered the public library. Colleagues at work got her to... |
Timeline
c.1590-1601: John Donne composed the famous lyrics which...
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c.1590-1601
John Donne
composed the famous lyrics which were posthumously published and later known as Songs and Sonnets.
30 April 1615: John Donne preached To the Queen at Greenwich,...
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30 April 1615
John Donne
preached To the Queen
at Greenwich, his earliest surviving sermon.
12 February 1631: Six weeks before his own death, John Donne...
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12 February 1631
Six weeks before his own death, John Donne
preached his sermon later printed as Death's Duell.
1633: John Donne's Poems were posthumously published...
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1633
John Donne
's Poems were posthumously published with his initials.
19 February 1640: LXXX Sermons by John Donne was posthumously...
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19 February 1640
LXXX Sermons by John Donne
was posthumously published; it included the earliest printed text of Izaak Walton
's biography of him.
2 February 1651: The second of Izaak Walton's biographies...
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2 February 1651
The second of Izaak Walton
's biographies appeared, that of Sir Henry Wotton
, as preface to a volume entitled Reliquiae Wottonianae.
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/.
16 July 1945: The world's first detonation of an atomic...
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16 July 1945
The world's first detonation of an atomic bomb took place at the Trinity Site at Alamogordo: in the desert outside Los Alamos, New Mexico.
May 2009: The BBC aimed to demonstrate that poetry...
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May 2009
The BBC
aimed to demonstrate that poetry is for everyone in a series launched this month: it succeeded in that sales of poetry soared in Britain.
October 2014: Forty years after it had become one of the...
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October 2014
Forty years after it had become one of the first five Oxford men's colleges to admit women, Hertford College
marked the occasion by replacing its dining-hall portraits of male eminences with striking black-and-white photographs of...
Texts
Donne, John. “Chronological Table”. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, edited by John Davy Hayward, Nonesuch Library, 1955, p. xi - xii.
Donne, John. The Complete English Poems of John Donne. Editor Patrides, Constantinos A., J. M. Dent, 1985.