Chesterton, G. K. “Louisa Alcott”. Critical Essays on Louisa May Alcott, edited by Madeleine B. Stern, G. K. Hall, pp. 212-14.
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Literary responses | Louisa May Alcott | Following her death, G. K. Chesterton
in a laudatory (if sexist) review classed LMA
with Austen
as an early realist, and praised her apt depictions of human truths. Chesterton, G. K. “Louisa Alcott”. Critical Essays on Louisa May Alcott, edited by Madeleine B. Stern, G. K. Hall, pp. 212-14. 213-14 |
politics | Constance, Countess Markievicz | Having publicly advocated a police boycott in May 1919, CCM
was again arrested and sentenced to four months at Cork Jail
. She kept in close contact with her sister Eva Gore-Booth
, friend and... |
Textual Features | Frances Cornford | Poems also includes Cornford's much anthologized and perhaps best known poem (later something of an embarrassment to her), the triolet To a Fat Lady seen from the Train, which sets a lyric repetition into... |
Textual Production | Clemence Dane | CD
, with eleven more members of the Detection Club
(including Dorothy L. Sayers
, Agatha Christie
, G. K. Chesterton
, Anthony Berkeley
, Freeman Wills Crofts
, G. D. H.
and M. I. Cole |
Friends, Associates | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
equally admired A. R. Orage
and Holbrook Jackson
, founders of the Leeds Arts Club
. At the Club she also met Edward Carpenter
, W. B. Yeats
, G. K. Chesterton
, George Bernard Shaw |
Birth | Germaine Greer | It was a long and difficult labour, with a delivery that bruised the baby's head, and a retained placenta which lost her mother a lot of blood. Wallace, Christine. Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew. Richard Cohen Books. 3 |
Textual Production | Elspeth Huxley | She dedicated it to Lily Clague
, Cleggy, her housekeeper/nanny. The title comes from a poem by G. K. Chesterton
. The book sold 16,000 copies. Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins. 255 and n, 258 |
Education | Elizabeth Jennings | EJ
attended Oxford High School
. It was while a thirteen-year-old pupil there, she later said, that she discovered the excitement of poetry: first The Battle of Lepanto by G. K. Chesterton
, then The... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sheila Kaye-Smith | The title-page bears a quotation from G. K. Chesterton
about a new people who take over the land as the sad squires of the past withdraw. Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne. 98 |
Reception | Margery Lawrence | In his Foreword to the volume, Sir Shane Leslie
finds the influences of Shelley
, Yeats
, Tennyson
, Kipling
, Housman
, Chesterton
, and Fiona MacLeod
(pen-name of William Sharp). Yet according to... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Other friends included Sir Charles Peake
, Richard Law
(later Lord Coleraine), Herbert Morrison
, G. K. Chesterton
, and George Bernard Shaw
. Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 107 |
Textual Production | Alice Meynell | As a reviewer, AM
dealt with writing by Samuel Johnson
, Christina Rossetti
, George Eliot
, Emily Brontë
, Dickens
, Robert Browning
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, Jean Ingelow
, Charles Williams
,... |
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 |
Textual Production | E. Nesbit | Contributors included EN
herself, Gerald Gould
, G. K. Chesterton
, Andrew Lang
, and Oswald Barron
. Nesbit's idealistic promise that she would print the plain naked unashamed truth, in contrast to the lies... |
Textual Production | Ruth Rendell | It is dedicated To the men and women who work for London Transport
Underground; and to those who make music in its tunnels, and uses as epigraph a passage from G. K. Chesterton
on... |