Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Performance of text | Virginia Woolf | VW
worked long and hard on the lengthy novel which finally became The Years. Its genesis goes back to her speech of 21 January 1931 at the London and National Society for Women's Service |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Augusta Webster | During her tenure she encountered the very best and worst of late Victorian poetry. Her published reviews, which critic Marysa Demoor
characterises as expressing a hesitant modernism, Demoor, Marysa. “Women Poets as Critics in the Athenæum: Ungendered Anonymity Unmasked”. Nineteenth-Century Prose, Vol. 24 , No. 1, 1997, pp. 51-71. 61 |
Friends, Associates | Lucy Walford | LW
had many friends among literary people and those who moved in literary circles. She discussed the books of her childhood with Reginald Palgrave
, who shared many of her early reading experiences, and Wilkie Collins |
Reception | Lucy Walford | |
Textual Production | Angela Thirkell | AT
published, as Leslie Parker, a novel entitled Trooper to the Southern Cross, and under her own name a volume of stories which she called The Demon in the House in a parodic... |
Friends, Associates | Alfred Tennyson | A sociable man (although distrustful of unknown admirers) Tennyson was acquainted with many of the major artistic and political figures of the nineteenth century, including Edward FitzGerald
, Coventry Patmore
, Edward Lear
, William Ewart Gladstone |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Sinclair | Several members of CS
's extended family were published authors. Her elder half-sister Janet
published religious works. The best-known in her own day was her great-niece Lucy Walford
, romantic novelist (whom Coventry Patmore
... |
Friends, Associates | Christina Rossetti | Around this time she became aware of her brother Dante Gabriel
's involvement with Elizabeth Siddal
, although she and Siddal met only in 1854 and were never intimate friends. Close family friends of Christina... |
Reception | Barbara Pym | Pym is not one of those women writers whose stock has risen through feminist re-evaluation. Five years after the influential Times Literary Supplement article was published, Penelope Lively
wrote, I am always surprised that the... |
Publishing | Caroline Norton | CN
's prolific reviewing included a signed notice, published in Macmillan's Magazine on 8 September 1863, of Coventry Patmore
's The Angel in the House and Christina Rossetti
's Goblin Market. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Mary Moore | The Lure of Eve is prefaced with a quotation from Coventry Patmore
's poem The Toys. It presents a group of idealistic young men at the beginning of mostly creative careers: Deane the painter... |
Reception | Alice Meynell | |
Cultural formation | Viola Meynell | VM
's childhood home was a cultural centre for Roman Catholics
such as the poets Francis Thompson
and Coventry Patmore
. She was influenced by her parents' literary activities, as well as by her mother's... |
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, 1981. 115-16, 125 Meynell, Viola. Alice Meynell: A Memoir. J. Cape, 1947. 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, 1947. 339-41 |
Timeline
By 10 August 1844: Coventry Patmore published Poems, his first...
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By 10 August 1844
Coventry Patmore
published Poems, his first collection, which included The Woodman's Daughter.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
876 (1844): 727
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Weinig, Mary Anthony. Coventry Patmore. Twayne, 1981.
30, 37
October 1854: Coventry Patmore anonymously published The...
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October 1854
Coventry Patmore
anonymously published The Betrothal, the first part of his poetic celebration of courtship, marriage, and conservative gender roles, The Angel in the House.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1410 (4 November 1854): 1335
Weinig, Mary Anthony. Coventry Patmore. Twayne, 1981.
11
Gosse, Edmund. Coventry Patmore. Scholarly Press, 1970.
65
Anstruther, Ian. Coventry Patmore’s Angel: A Study of Coventry Patmore, His Wife Emily, and The Angel in the House. Haggerston Press, 1992.
7, 77
1856: The Espousals, the second part of Coventry...
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1856
The Espousals, the second part of Coventry Patmore
's poem The Angel in the House, was published.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1410 (4 November 1854): 1335
Weinig, Mary Anthony. Coventry Patmore. Twayne, 1981.
11
By 17 December 1859: Under her pseudonym Mrs Motherly, Emily Augusta...
Women writers item
By 17 December 1859
Under her pseudonym Mrs Motherly, Emily Augusta Patmore
(Coventry Patmore
's first wife) published her second book of the year, Nursery Poetry, with illustrations.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
By 20 October 1860: Faithful for Ever, the third part of Coventry...
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By 20 October 1860
Faithful for Ever, the third part of Coventry Patmore
's poem The Angel in the House, was published.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1410 (1854): 1335
Athenæum. J. Lection.
(1860): 509-10
1862: The Victories of Love, the fourth and final...
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1862
The Victories of Love, the fourth and final part of Coventry Patmore
's poem The Angel in the House, was serialised in Macmillian's Magazine.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1410 (4 November 1854): 1335
Gosse, Edmund. Coventry Patmore. Scholarly Press, 1970.
75-7
1881: Marianne Caroline Patmore and her husband,...
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1881
Marianne Caroline Patmore
and her husband, Coventry Patmore
, published their translation Saint Bernard
on the Love of God.
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.
Texts
Procter, Bryan Waller. An Autobiographical Fragment and Biographical Notes, with Personal Sketches of Contemporaries, Unpublished Lyrics, and Letters of Literary Friends. Editor Patmore, Coventry, Roberts Brothers, 1877.
Patmore, Coventry. Poems. E. Moxon, 1844.
Bernard, Saint, of Clairvaux. Saint Bernard on the Love of God. Translators Patmore, Marianne Caroline and Coventry Patmore, C. Kegan Paul, 1881.
Patmore, Coventry. The Angel in the House. J. W. Parker, 1856, 2 vols.
Patmore, Coventry, and Reginald Gordon Cox. “The Woodlanders”. Thomas Hardy: The Critical Heritage, Routledge, 1979, pp. 157-9.