Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 |
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... |
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... |
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 |
Fictionalization | Caroline Norton | |
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)... |
Education | Dora Russell | |
Friends, Associates | Flora Shaw | Here she became a friend of novelist and neighbour George Meredith
, who introduced her to a wider social circle, including W.T. Stead
, the scandalous journalist and editor of the Pall Mall Gazette... |
Publishing | Arabella Shore | In addition to her poetry, AS
published at least three significant pieces of literary criticism: essays on the contemporary, active George Meredith
and on Marie de Sévigné
for the British Quarterly Review in 1879 and... |
Literary responses | Louisa Catherine Shore | Elegies was praised by Robert Browning
, George Meredith
, and William Gladstone
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Shore, Arabella. First and Last Poems. Grant Richards. v |
Textual Production | Dora Sigerson | The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter appeared with an introduction by George Meredith
. Sigerson, Dora, and George Meredith. The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter. Hodder and Stoughton. title-page Bailey, John Cann. “Mrs. Shorter’s Poems”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 304, p. 340. 340 |
Friends, Associates | Dora Sigerson | After her marriage, DS
became acquainted with a number of notable literary figures, including George Meredith
(who wrote the introduction to The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter, 1907), Thomas Hardy
(who wrote the... |
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