Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Standard Name: Tolstoy, Lev Nikolaevich
Used Form: Leo Tolstoy

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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, 23 Sept. 1960, p. 612.
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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, 12–18 June 2003, p. 34.
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Textual Production Matilda Betham-Edwards
Helen Black questioned her closely about her preferences in literature, and learned that Betham-Edwards endeavour[ed] to appreciate all the living novelists, but found the school of Tolstoy , Ibsen , and Zolarepulsive in the...
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 Rose Tremain
RT published a novel entitled Music and Silence, which she dedicated to her daughter, Eleanor.
Scholar John Mullan has related the title to others employing two abstract nouns, like Elizabeth Inchbald 's Nature and...
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...
Textual Production Marie Stopes
The Authorized Life of Marie C. Stopes, a biography of MS bearing the name of Aylmer Maude , her longtime friend and biographer of Tolstoy and many others, was paid for (and mostly written)...
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
In this work the Leavises argue (radically modifying the view stated in The Great Tradition) that Dickens was an inheritor of Shakespeare and Blake , and a major influence on the formation of the...
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, 1982.
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Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press, 1996.
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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 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.
This collection contains Parkes's reminiscences of George Eliot , Anna Jameson , Mary Howitt , Georgiana Fullerton , and Catherine Booth ...
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, 1911.
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In Dante and Botticelli she argues from her two Italian examples that the best possible training for...
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 Q. D. Leavis
Responding to recent charges that Brontë 's novel is stylistically flawed, incoherent in intention, and excessively melodramatic and violent, QDL argues that the text, although not a seamless work of art, belongs, along with Tolstoy
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...

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