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Travel | Denise Levertov | DL
, on a visit to Russia (particularly Moscow), spent the day at Tolstoy
's house, Yasnaya Polyana. Duncan, Robert, and Denise Levertov. The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov. Editors Bertholf, Robert J. and Albert Gelpi, Stanford University Press. 699 |
Travel | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Her old age included travel: three visits to Elizabeth Bowen
in Ireland and one to Tolstoy
's estate of Yasnaya Polyana in Russia (with two days in Moscow and one in Leningrad) in connection... |
Travel | Kathleen E. Innes | Its success helped secure for future schools such high-profile speakers as Bertrand Russell
, Hermann Hesse
, Emily Greene Balch
, Romain Rolland
, Georges Duhamel
, and Paul Birukoff
(Tolstoy
's secretary and biographer). Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta. 70n21 |
Travel | Constance Garnett | She spent seven weeks in Russia and made valuable contacts (this was when she first met Tolstoy
). She returned to Russiain 1904, accompanied by her son David. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Tomalin, Clare. “Constance Garnett (1861 - 1946)”. Breaking Bounds. Six Newnham Lives, edited by Biddy Passmore, Newnham College, pp. 14-25. 19 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | John Oliver Hobbes | The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius
, John Wesley
, and Tolstoy
. Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray. 31 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marjorie Bowen | MB
credits British women novelists for modifying the methods of the great European novelists, noting in particular Dorothy Richardson
's perfection of the stream-of-consciousness technique. She draws a contrast between Dorothy Richardson
's Miriam and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Bessie Rayner Parkes | A second edition appeared a year later, and a paperback edition in 2008. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Q. D. Leavis | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eva Figes | She considers the drama of ancient Greece and of the Renaissance, setting each in its historical context. After dealing with issues of religious belief, kingship, and the dead, she comes to that of women and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Vernon Lee | VL
's topics in this volume include Emerson
, Tolstoy
, Nietzsche
, William James
, H. G. Wells
, Ruskin
, and many other French and English authors and critics. Lee had dismissed Ruskin... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | E. M. Forster | This is on the whole a conservative work. Forster supports H. G. Wells
against Henry James
in their argument over the question in fiction of pattern versus representation of experience. Although he calls for innovation... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ursula K. Le Guin | This contains her thoughts on Mark Twain
, Tolstoy
, J. R. R. Tolkien
(Rhythmic Pattern in The Lord of the Rings) and Ishi
the tribal native American whom her father studied and... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Maria Tucker | CMT
, under the initials A.L.O.E., published War and Peace. A Tale of the Retreat from Caubul. She was just ahead of Tolstoy
's more famous use of the title. The retreat of... |
Textual Production | Lady Cynthia Asquith | LCA
's next biography, that of Sonya Tolstoy
, appeared six months posthumously under the title of Married to Tolstoy. Calder-Marshall, Arthur. “A Genius at Home”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3056, p. 612. 612 |
Textual Production | Rebecca West | A commission for RW
to write a New Yorker article on Tolstoy
's grandson, who lived in Mexico, spurred her to an important, though unrealised, project for a Mexican travel-book. Quinones, Sam. “A singular view”. Guardian Weekly, p. 34. 34 |