“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.
Anna Comnena
Standard Name: Comnena, Anna
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Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The authorial voice is forthright about the poet's own desire to be a literary trail-blazer for womankind, and she is already defining that task in terms of rejection of the domestic. She also has a... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | EST
wrote a verse dedication of this novel to the poet William Hayley
, with allusions which show her to be well acquainted with his writings. She addresses him as a patron of writing women... |
Textual Features | Julia Kristeva | Again Stéphanie Delacourt and Northrop Rilsky, held tightly under the control of a third-person narrator, address themselves to mystery-solving. JK
quotes Delacourt, who revels in neologisms, taking as her motto Je me voyage (I travel... |
Timeline
By 1148: Anna Comnena finished the fifteen books of...
Writing climate item
By 1148
Anna Comnena
finished the fifteen books of her Alexias, a history of the career and reign of her father, Alexius Comnenus
, Emperor of Constantinople.
Newman, Barbara. “Byzantine Laments”. London Review of Books, Vol.
39
, No. 5, 2 Mar. 2017, p. 21. 1780: In his poem An Essay on History, in three...
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1780
In his poem An Essay on History, in three epistles to Edward Gibbon, William Hayley
praised the ancient historian Anna Comnena
.
Tomlins, Elizabeth Sophia. The Victim of Fancy. Pickering and Chatto, 2009.
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By early October 1930: London publisher Gerald Howe issued a composite...
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By early October 1930
London publisher Gerald Howe issued a composite biography entitled Six Women of the World, which had previously made up six volumes in a Representative Women series, 1927-9.
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1497 (9 October 1930): 802
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