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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... |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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