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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | MEC
had a complicated relationship with her poor and working-class students. Although reading Tolstoy
inspired her charitable acts, the idea of freely mixing with the lower classes repelled her. She eventually settled on the controlled... |
Education | Patricia Highsmith | PH
went to various schools. She was removed from her first NewYork public school because her grandmother objected to her making friends with black children. Then came a small and select private school which she... |
Education | F. Tennyson Jesse | Though FTJ
did not receive much formal education, she read voraciously. Important discoveries were theBrontësisters
, Jane Austen
, and Constance Garnett
's translations of Tolstoy
. Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch, 1984. 33 |
Education | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | She read voraciously, preferring writers with the geographical rootedness which she herself lacked: George Eliot
, Thomas Hardy
, Charles Dickens
, and from beyond the English tradition Marcel Proust
, James Joyce
, Henry James |
Education | Mary Lavin | It was, she said later, through reading that I passed from childhood to adulthood, first through a chance encounter with Eliot
's Adam Bede (and that was the end of the school stories)... |
Education | Zadie Smith | ZS
went to Malorees Junior School and then to Hampstead Comprehensive
. Tew, Philip. Zadie Smith. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 27 |
Education | Doris Lessing | |
Friends, Associates | Constance Garnett | In 1891 Edward Garnett brought home with him a Russian political exile, Felix Volkhovsky
, who encouraged CG
, then pregnant, to learn Russian. As a result of this friendship, she and Edward became acquainted... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Doris Lessing | Lessing spoke here of visiting a four-room school in Zimbabwe, looking out on miles of charred stumps which she remembered as having been long ago the most wonderful forest I have ever seen. It... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christine Brooke-Rose | This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen
of a great German contemporary of Austen:... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rose Tremain | Most of the stories concern love, and some make creative use of the lives or works of other authors, like Tolstoy
and Daphne Du Maurier
. In The Closing DoorRT
created a character who... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Lavin | It was later, when she began on a story about one of her Athenry aunts, when all of a sudden I knew that I had a facile gift. She then discovered for the first time... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Templeton | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Olive Schreiner | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Doris Lessing | Martha comes to see her marriage as repeating a terrible mistake already made by her mother: she is horribly metamorphosed, entirely dependent on her children for any interest in life, resented by them, and resenting... |