Barker, Pat. Regeneration. Viking-Penguin.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Pat Barker | Barker opens with the text of Finished with the War, A Soldier's Declaration, issued in July 1917 by the writer Siegfried Sassoon
, one of her real-life characters. Barker, Pat. Regeneration. Viking-Penguin. 3, 71 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Vera Brittain | She originally planned to write a novel based on her wartime experiences, but in November 1929, after having read the war memoirs of Edmund Blunden
, Siegfried Sassoon
, and Robert Graves
, she began... |
Reception | May Cannan | Bevil Quiller-Couch
wrote that of the books he had read at the Front (more books than during the rest of my life, Cannan, May, and Bevil Quiller-Couch. The Tears of War. Editor Fyfe, Charlotte, Cavalier Books. 67 |
Friends, Associates | Frances Cornford | FC
also developed friendships, although not close ones, with Walter de la Mare
, Eric Gill
, Bertrand Russell
, Siegfried Sassoon
, Ralph
and Ursula Vaughan Williams,
and Virginia Woolf
. Cornford, Hugh et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, p. xxvii - xxxvii. xxxv |
Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Among the many poets gathered here, inescapable choices like Wilfred Owen
, Siegfried Sassoon
, Isaac Rosenberg
, and Robert Graves
rub shoulders with the unexpected, like Cynthia Asquith
, Sarojini Naidu
, and Gertrude Stein
. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elaine Feinstein | Subjects of poems here include Dickens
, Thomas
and |
Publishing | E. M. Forster | The genesis of this novel probably dates from a visit which EMF
made in September 1913 to the socialist and homosexual activist Edward Carpenter
, whose lifelong campaign against prejudice and inequity were an inspiration... |
Friends, Associates | Rumer Godden | RG
preserved her friendship with the director Jean Renoir
from the time that he filmed her novel The River. After moving to Highgate she became friendly with the writer Stevie Smith
(whom she calls... |
Textual Production | Rumer Godden | RG
wrote part of this novel in a caravan after her house burned down. She worked on it for five years, and her new part-time secretary retyped it many times. Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan. 253-4 |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Grand | During the war SG
met William
and Rachel Mary Tindall
, Quakers who became close friends of hers. She also met and lunched with Thomas Hardy
and Siegfried Sassoon
. Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press. 118-19 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Agnes Hamilton | One of Lee's beliefs, pronounced that evening, was: Patriotism . . . is the power to be ashamed of your country. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 74 |
Occupation | Kathleen E. Innes | Among those drafted to form the Mandate's Honorary Council in Britain were prominent politicians, clergy, feminists, and writers such as Margaret Ashton
, Margaret Bondfield
, Vera Brittain
, Arthur Henderson
, Laurence Housman
,... |
Textual Production | Storm Jameson | SJ
published a novel entitled Farewell to Youth, about the First World War. This was the year of Edmund Blunden
's war memoir and of the first, pre-war volume of Siegfried Sassoon
's... |
Textual Production | Jackie Kay | JK
's first volume of poetry published as Makar of Scotland included Threshold (written for the opening of the Scottish parliament in 2016) and was titled from a poem about her grandfather (by adoption, not... |
Friends, Associates | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
was also a great success with the art-historian Bernard Berenson
. Among a younger generation of artists and writers whom she often welcomed as guests were Siegfried Sassoon
, W. H. Auden
, Christopher Isherwood |
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