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Reception | Sarah Lewis | Sappho was well-received, though perhaps not quite to the extent SL
imagined. She wrote to a friend in 1877, The British press has placed me on a plane with Shakespeare
—the highest position accorded to... |
Textual Features | Jane Loudon | The introductory chapter opens with Mrs Seymour's two daughters running into difficulties with synchronicity. One is astonished that Homer
and Solomon
were at least near-contemporaries; the other could not think who was king of France... |
Textual Features | Judith Cowper Madan | |
Occupation | Ella K. Maillart | EKM
went on from sailing as a girl at home to crewing for an English owner. At the beginning of 1922 her friend Miette acquired a 21-foot sloop named Perlette, which she and Kini sailed... |
Wealth and Poverty | Anne Marsh | Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father. Heath-Caldwell, J. J. “Letters, References and Notes (1780-1874), Relating to James Caldwell and Anne Marsh (Marsh-Caldwell)”. Ancestors and Relatives of JJ Heath-Caldwell. 1839-1842 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | The novel which emerged from so much interference during composition is naive, exaggerated, and badly structured, but highly unusual, with great intensity in its writing. Its title-page quotes Thomas Holcroft
, and its epigraphs to... |
Textual Production | Judith Sargent Murray | The future JSM
wrote a history (probably fiction) when she was nine, which years later she disparaged as an imbecile effusion. Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books. 95 |
Education | Ruth Padel | She found school work (at Byron House school in Highgate and then at the highly academic North London Collegiate
) difficult. She always got an A for English essays, although she would write a short... |
Publishing | Ruth Padel | In the same years as launching herself as a poet RP
began publishing as an academic critic. From her base in classical scholarship she turned her critical attention in 1985 towards the literature of modern... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ruth Padel | Writing about depictions by Homer
and the Greek tragedians of madness, RP
begins with the elusive source of the quotation which gave her her title (in English Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes... |
Characters | Alicia Tyndal Palmer | An introductory poem summarises desirable female qualities: Formed by the Graces, loveliness itself, / Come, with those downcast eyes sedate and sweet, / Those modest looks that deeply touch the soul. Palmer, Alicia Tyndal. The Daughters of Isenberg. Lackington, Allen. prelims Feminist Companion Archive. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Winifred Peck | Her chapter-headings quote from Agnes Strickland
and Edith Sitwell
as well as an eclectic range of male authors from Homer
onwards. Quotations abound in the text as well as the epigraphs, and not all of... |
Textual Production | Alexander Pope | AP
published the long-awaited first four books of his translation of Homer
's Iliad. Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto. 164n43 |
Literary responses | Ann Radcliffe | Anna Seward
, in letters which were to be published in AR
's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 221-2 |
Textual Features | Clara Reeve |
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