Moore, Edith Mary. The Defeat of Woman. C.W. Daniel Co.
prelims
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Friends, Associates | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
lived with the Stephens
after their marriage, and while there became a friend of such literary figures as George Meredith
, Henry James
(who described her after an early encounter as exquisitely irrational)... |
Fictionalization | Caroline Norton | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Mary Moore | The title-page quotes from Shakespeare
(What's past is Prologue) and Cicero
(That cannot be said too often which is not yet understood). Moore, Edith Mary. The Defeat of Woman. C.W. Daniel Co. prelims |
Literary responses | Edna St Vincent Millay | In The NationRolfe Humphries
responded with comment on the shape of her career, regretting that she had become a legend before becoming a success, that her public now included collectors as well as readers... |
Education | Viola Meynell | After leaving school at sixteen, VM
read widely on her own, especially English authors: George Eliot
, Dickens
, George Meredith
, Arnold Bennett
, John Galsworthy
, and Thomas Hardy
. MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen. 61, 65 |
Literary responses | Viola Meynell | In The Bookman, C. E. Lawrence
welcomed this novel as an individual effort of work which proves that however much she may have studied in the past . . . Miss Meynell has a... |
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. 339-41 |
Author summary | Alice Meynell | AM
was a late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century poet, as well as the author of criticism, journalism, essays, art reviews, introductions, and translations. Her output amounted to ten essay collections and six poetry volumes during... |
Friends, Associates | Alice Meynell | AM
's friendship with George Meredith
did not begin until very late in Patmore's life (it was already arousing bitter jealousy in early 1896), Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. Macmillan. 12 |
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 |
Literary responses | Alice Meynell | The Pall Mall Gazette praised AM
's dramatic criticism in particular as the best of the age. Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House. 132 |
Textual Production | Alice Meynell | The volume includes Prefatory Poems by Coventry Patmore
, Francis Thompson
, George Meredith
, Vita Sackville-West
, and others. Many of them were written long before Meynell's death, Meynell, Alice. Alice Meynell: Prose and Poetry. Editors Page, Frederick and Vita Sackville-West, Jonathon Cape. 27-34 |
Fictionalization | Alice Meynell | To many of her contemporaries (especially male contemporaries), AM
symbolised the perfection of Woman and Mother. Many descriptions of her suggest Woolf
's Mrs Ramsay in To the Lighthouse. Coventry Patmore
and Francis Thompson |
Dedications | Hannah Lynch | HL
's first novel, Through Troubled Waters, (dedicated to George Meredithas a slight token of a very sincere admiration), Lynch, Hannah. Through Troubled Waters. Ward, Lock, and Co., p. viii, 460 pp. Murphy, James H. Irish Novelists and the Victorian Age. Oxford University Press. 233 and n71 Athenæum. J. Lection. 3004 (1885): 660 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Hannah Lynch | During a trip to Athens in the late 1880s HL
met Rosamond Venning
, with whom she explored the city and enjoyed a shared literary interest. In 1891 HL
dedicated her study of George Meredith |
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