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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Coventry Patmore
and the pioneer doctor Elizabeth Blackwell
lived in the same village as MBE
. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 122 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh engages with a wide range of contemporary debates and social issues, paramount among them the roles of women and the role of the poet in contemporary society. It challenges, for instance, long before... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Bury | EB
set out in her diary to record the most remarkable Providences of God, with respect to her self and others. Bury, Elizabeth. An Account of the Life and Death of Mrs Elizabeth Bury. Editor Bury, Samuel, Printed by and for J. Penn and sold by J. Sprint. 11 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Laura Ormiston Chant | The volume's shorter independent pieces include sonnets. The 70-page Verona, about 1,600 lines of pentameter blank verse, treats the conflict between the title character and her fiancé, Adrian, over her commitment to raising personally... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Power Cobbe | The theoretical essay with which FPC
headed Josephine Butler
's landmark collection Woman's Work and Woman's Culture, 1869, launches out with wit: Of all the theories current concerning women, none is more curious than... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dinah Mulock Craik | Her most commonly printed poem, Philip My King, anticipates, using biblical imagery, the entire life of her godson Philip Bourke Marston
. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. 95 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Fraser-Tytler | In this story Margaret Ansted arrives at the sleepy town of Islesworth to become a maid at the Walcombe estate following the death of her father. This action is described as a transformation into the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rumer Godden | The narrative, with its freight of evocative description, moves back and forth between successive generations of the Dane family, beginning with the newly-married Victorian pair, Griselda and John (who become, respectively, a reluctantly full-time house-manager... |
Occupation | Catherine Gore | Literary historian Rebecca Lynne Russell Baird
indicates that during this time CGbecame known as somewhat of a recluse who let little be known of her home life. Baird, Rebecca Lynne Russell. Catherine Frances Gore, the Silver-Fork School, and "Mothers and Daughters": True Views of Society in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. University of Arkansas. 22 |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Gore | CG
was acquainted with a number of important literary figures. Before leaving London for the Continent she attended an assembly given by Rosina Bulwer-Lytton
to which Disraeli
, Lady Morgan
, and Letitia Landon
also... |
Friends, Associates | Violet Hunt | Those who publicly testified that the relationship between Hunt and Ford had every outward appearance of a marriage included Brigit Patmore
, wife of Coventry Patmore
's grandson). Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster. 198-9 |
Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | |
Publishing | Alice Meynell | Four of the poems had previously appeared in magazines. Of these, Why wilt thou Chide?, which was addressed to Coventry Patmore
and responded to his violent jealousy of AM
's friendships with other men... |
Textual Production | Alice Meynell | Poet and editor W. E. Henley
, printing the title essay in the Scots Observer, called it one of the best things it has so far been my privilege to print. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 98 |
Literary responses | Alice Meynell | Coventry Patmore
praised the volume hyperbolically in the Fortnightly Review: At rare intervals the world is startled by the phenomenon of a woman whose qualities of mind and heart seem to demand a revision... |