Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House.
115-16, 125
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Alice Meynell | AM
suspended her close friendship with poet Coventry Patmore
because of his increasing jealousy of her friendships with other men. Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House. 115-16, 125 Meynell, Viola. Alice Meynell: A Memoir. J. Cape. 118-19, 121-2 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 98 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 19 |
Textual Production | Alice Meynell | AM
published The Second Person Singular, and Other Essays, a collection of twenty pieces about Italy, George Meredith
, Leigh Hunt
, Thomas Lovell Beddoes
, and Coventry Patmore
. 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. Meynell, Viola. Alice Meynell: A Memoir. J. Cape. 339-41 |
Author summary | Alice Meynell | AM
was a late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century poet, as well as the author of criticism, journalism, essays, art reviews, introductions, and translations. Her output amounted to ten essay collections and six poetry volumes during... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Alice Meynell | AM
's associations with Aubrey de Vere
, Patmore
, and Meredith
were mutually beneficial. She shared with these poet-mentors the passion and facility for metrical and verbal analysis. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 19 |
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... |
Dedications | Alice Meynell | She dedicated the volume to Coventry Patmore
, though their friendship had largely waned. Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House. 131 |
Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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 | 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 |
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