Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | E. Nesbit | EN
's and Barron's collaborative stories reflect his antiquarian interests in what biographer Julia Briggs
calls general gadzookery. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 182 |
Textual Production | E. Nesbit | Biographer Julia Briggs
believes that the original story was stimulated by EN
's writing about her own schooldays for the Girls' Own Paper. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Features | E. Nesbit | In a family living without its father (who is in fact in prison, accused of selling state secrets to Russia), Bobby, the eldest girl, is forced to act as second parent to the other children... |
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... |
Publishing | E. Nesbit | When EN
's commissions for children's stories dried up, she was left in financial difficulty. She was used to making perhaps fifty pounds for an episode issued in England and the USA, which worked out... |
Textual Features | E. Nesbit | The guardian of two young cousins blows their inheritance and absconds leaving them nothing but a house and five hundred pounds. Fresh from school, the two girls respond differently: Lucilla is anxious but Jane Quested... |
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. 386 |
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. 107 Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 106-7 |
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. 35-6 |
Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | The idea for VW
's fourth novel, Julia Briggs
observes, goes back to a plan she had thought of twenty years earlier, for a play about a man and a woman—show them growing up—never meeting—not... |
Reception | Virginia Woolf | The first reviews of Mrs. Dalloway came out in the same month as those of The Common Reader (first series). Both the Western Mail and the Scotsman dismissed the novel as beyond the general reader... |
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... |
Reception | Virginia Woolf | Critic Louise DeSalvo
calls A Sketch of the Pastthe bravest writing task that she had ever set out to accomplish. DeSalvo, Louise. Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work. Beacon Press. 99 |
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