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Textual Production | Ann Taylor Gilbert | ATG
later remembered that she was writing poetry at seven or eight. She also planned large literary projects Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, http://U of A, HSS Ruth N . 1: 46 |
Textual Production | Mrs Ross | MR
published The Modern Calypso; or, Widow's Captivation, A Novel. The non-modern Calypso alluded to is the island enchantress in Homer
's Odyssey, who keeps Odysseus in thrall for seven years. This novel... |
Textual Production | Agnes Mary Clerke | AMC
published a work of classical scholarship, Familiar Studies in Homer. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Margaret Atwood | |
Textual Production | Anne Dacier | AD
tackled the summit of classical translation with her French rendering of Homer
's Iliad: L'Iliade d'Homère, traduite en françois avec des remarques. Spencer, Samia I., editor. Writers of the French Enlightenment I. Gale. |
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 |
Textual Production | Anna Seward | AS
drafted the first three books of an epic poem entitled Telemachus, adapted from François Fénelon
's Télémaque, 1699. (She also wrote a defence of Pope
's Homer
translations against the strictures of Joseph Spence
.) Lucas, Edward Verrall. A Swan and Her Friends. Methuen. 315-16 |
Textual Production | Anne Dacier | AD
replied with Des Causes de la Corruption du Goût (offically approved on this day) to the critique of her L'Iliade d'Homère by Antoine Houdart de La Motte
in his French verse adaptation and his... |
Textual Production | H. D. | Her admirer Harold P. Collins
persuaded her to omit a very bad paraphrase of Homer
in sketchy free verse. Guest, Barbara. Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World. Collins. 148 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Smith | One month before writing this poem Elizabeth Smith
met Mary Hunt
, with whom she was soon maintaining a scholarly correspondence. In the earliest letter which Bowdler prints (written on 7 July 1792), Smith touches... |
Textual Production | Anne Dacier | AD
further pursued her defence both of Homer
himself and of her treatment of him, in her expanded and revised second edition of her Iliad translation in 1719. There, in Quelques Réflexions sur la Préface... |
Textual Production | Judith Kazantzis | JK
published a book-length sequence of poems in many voices from classical epic: The Odysseus Poems: Fictions on the Odyssey of Homer, with etchings by Jacqueline Morreau
. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (7 May 1999): 35 Judith Kazantzis. http://www.judithkazantzis.com/. |
Textual Production | Christine Brooke-Rose | CBR
published Amalgamemnon, a novel written in the future and conditional tenses, the subjunctive or imperative moods, Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press. 107n26 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press. 230 |
Textual Features | Ursula K. Le Guin | The trouble comes from a sorcerer, Cob, an old enemy of Ged, who has found a way to evade death. All over the Earthsea world people are obsessed with the idea of living for ever... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Teft | She praises Pope
, reproves Richardson
for his second part of Pamela (Mr B., she says, is no reward for Pamela's virtue), and notes that women's tea-table conversation includes acute comment on authors. She offers... |
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