Calder-Marshall, Arthur. “A Genius at Home”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3056, p. 612.
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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 |
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... |
Textual Production | Matilda Betham-Edwards | |
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... |
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:... |
Textual Production | Anne Carson | AC
's poetry collection Men in the Off Hours, 2000, variously inhabits the minds (and bodies) of Tolstoy
, Lazarus, Freud
, Catullus
, Sappho
and Emily Dickinson
, not to mention the French... |
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... |
Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | While Charlotte Brontë
, MEC
argues, swept the world away in the storm of her passion and George Eliotconquered it with the power of understanding, [Elizabeth] Gaskell
forced it to weep for pity [and]... |
Textual Production | Clemence Dane | CD
collaborated with Salka Viertel
on a screenplay of Tolstoy
's Anna Karenina for Greta Garbo
. Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research. 10: 137 Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press. 98 |
Literary responses | Daphne Du Maurier | Rebecca was DDM
's best known work, earning her massive profits, and it has become one of the most widely read novels of all time. Kelly, Richard. Daphne du Maurier. Twayne. 66 |
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 | 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... |
Textual Production | Constance Garnett | CG
painstakingly translated The Novels of Leo Tolstoy: six volumes which included Anna Karenina, Ivan Ilyitch and Other Stories, and War and Peace (which filled three of the six volumes). 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. Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland. |
Author summary | Constance Garnett | |
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... |