Briggs, Julia. “The Wives of Herr Bear”. London Review of Books, pp. 24 - 5.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Hope Mirrlees | Virginia Woolf
hand-set the edition. The colophon uses the sign of the constellation Ursa Major (as did those of HM
's three novels). Briggs, Julia. “The Wives of Herr Bear”. London Review of Books, pp. 24 - 5. 25 |
Friends, Associates | E. Nesbit | EN
first met Alice Hoatson
, who became her husband's life-long lover. Biographer Julia Briggs
calls Hoatson her intensest and most painful friendship. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987. 107 Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987. 106-7 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Ellen Harrison | JEH
's work exerted a palpable influence on the Modernist movement in literature, and both her persona and her life's work were represented, sometimes in much modified form, in many creative texts. Critic Julia Briggs |
Intertextuality and Influence | E. Nesbit | In this work (influenced, says Julia Briggs, by the work of Hesba Stretton
) the children find the lost treasure that will enable Arden Castle (a symbol of English history) to be restored. Briggs
takes... |
Literary responses | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Woolf
, reading the typescript of this novel at the end of February 1941, judged it to be more vigorous and pulled together than most of her other books, to have more depth and... |
Literary responses | Hope Mirrlees | Julia Briggs
reads the text as a roman à clef in which Scudéry
is an unflattering portrait of Natalie Barney
(whom HM
would have encountered when herself living in Paris) while Harrison
appears as the... |
Literary responses | Hope Mirrlees | Paris was received by an appreciative audience. Before its publication Virginia Woolf
described it as very obscure, indecent, and brilliant. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne TrautmannEditors , Hogarth Press, 1980. 2: 385 |
Literary responses | Hope Mirrlees | Growing interest in HM
was reflected in Julia Briggs
's discussion about her contributions to modernist literary culture in her Reading Virginia Woolf, 2006. Recognition of the significance of the author's work has grown... |
Literary responses | E. Nesbit | Briggs
calls this a most readable book, a pure romance full of happy improbabilities pegged down by telling concrete details, rich with her own passionate enthusiasms and prejudices. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987. 386 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Bowen | Julia Briggs
considered that another story in this collection never really closes the gap between its fearful vision and its humdrum setting. Briggs, Julia. Night Visitors. Faber, 1977. 180 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Bowen | For Julia Briggs
this story was the masterpiece of the volume into which it was later collected. Briggs, Julia. Night Visitors. Faber, 1977. 181 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Bowen | Bowen described these stories as flying particles of something enormous and inchoate. Kenney, Edwin J. Elizabeth Bowen. Bucknell University Press, 1975. 67 |
Occupation | E. Nesbit | A few years later she believed, as if she had entered into one of her own fantasies for children, that she had found out the Shakespeare cipher, which comes out as definitely as the result... |
Publishing | E. Nesbit | A poem by EN
entitled A Year Ago appeared in Good Words; it is her earliest work in print that biographer Julia Briggs
has been able to track down. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987. 35-6 |
Publishing | E. Nesbit | From early in her marriage EN
began writing seriously for periodicals, for the sake of the income she could bring in. She submitted work in prose and poetry to the radical Weekly Dispatch, The... |