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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | Following this initial encounter, the two formerly isolated girls bonded over shared interests in Scott
, Baudelaire
, Dumas
, Rostand
's Cyrano de Bergerac, and their own pedigrees. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 23 Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo. 72-3 Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton. 27 |
Textual Production | Vita Sackville-West | By the following year she was writing: not only a diary, and soon an extensive correspondence, but also poetry (not about adolescent feelings but about places and historical characters); long, romantic, historical novels in the... |
Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | Even after her father's death lifted the pressing need for earnings, MRM
edited a collection for young readers of fiction by Dumas
the elder. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Education | Mary McCarthy | Her time at at St Stephens and later at |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Lynn Linton | She dealt with books on such topics as biography, nursing and health issues, slavery, marriage, and North America. The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html. |
Textual Production | Fanny Kemble | Plays by F.A. Kemble appeared, subtitled An English Tragedy. A Play in Five Acts. Mary Stuart
, translated from the German of Schiller
. Mademoiselle de Belle Isle, translated from the French of Alexandre Dumas |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriett Jay | After his mother's death Buchanan continued to write, and he and HJ
collaborated on a number of further plays. On 5 January 1899—shortly after their final production (an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas
's Les Demoiselles... |
Textual Production | Harriett Jay | By 10 November 1898 they had colllaborated on an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas
's play Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr as the romantic comedy Two Little Maids from School (its title adapted from a song in... |
Textual Production | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | In the year her first child was born, Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
, translated under her married name Alexandre Dumas
the elder's The Glacier Land, about his travels in Switzerland. 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. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research. 199: 301 Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray. 69 The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html. 1298 (11 September 1852): 968-70 |
Publishing | Isabel Hill | After 1837 IH
composed a drama based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas the elder
about the Sicilian bandit Pascal Bruno. Though preparations were made for the play's performance, the production foundered, after bitter argument... |
Education | Mary Agnes Hamilton | On holidays her father
taught his children to shoot with arrows and to play on pipes which they had made themselves, to light fires, and boys and girls alike, how to row, to swim, to... |
Textual Production | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | In a letter, MEC
explained the novel's genesis four years before publication: [T]he first chapter came into my head, and I scribbled it down, only putting letters for the different men . . .... |
Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | The Spectator, reviewing Gathered Leaves, called this story one of the most original and entrancing of short stories . . . . . It is a furiously romantic tale, yet purged of all... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Waters argues that MEB
ought not to be condemned for clichés that she herself helped to establish. Rather we should examine them and the genre of the detective or sensation novel as an index of... |
Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The Athenæum continued its speculation on MEB
's gender by opining that this was not an appropriate book to issue from a female pen, and condemning it as an inadequate imitation of Alexandre Dumas
.... |