Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Buchi Emecheta | During her schooldays literature was her greatest escape. Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann. 19 |
Friends, Associates | Charles Cowden Clarke | CCC
was an important early friend of John Keats
. He also formed friendships with Leigh Hunt
, Douglas Jerrold
, Charles
and Mary Lamb
, and Charles Dickens
. Most of these friendships were... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Cowden Clarke | MCC
's parents frequently entertained eminent literary figures in a drawing-room where the paintings were all executed by distinguished friends. At an early age she became acquainted with Charles
and Mary Lamb
, Leigh Hunt |
Friends, Associates | Edna St Vincent Millay | One of ESVM
's close friends was the poet and novelist Elinor Wylie
. Wylie visited Steepletop with her husband in 1927 and the two poets discussed and sometimes disagreed about Shelley
and Keats
and... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Wheeler | His fuller description (in a letter to his sister) was not so pleasant, something between Jeremy Bentham
and Meg Merrilies, very clever, but awfully revolutionary. Disraeli, Benjamin. Lord Beaconsfield’s Correspondence With His Sister 1832-1852. John Murray. 15 Meg Merrilies was a fictitious gipsy in a poem... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Porter | While living in Esher, the Porter family were neighbours of Prince Leopold
, resident of Claremont and widower of Princess Charlotte (who died in 1817); their mother used to receive gifts of game and fruit... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Sexton | Anne was not able to care consistently for Linda during her early years, and had her looked after for long periods by her mother and her mother-in-law. However, mother and daughter developed an extremely close... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Kemble | FK
met her future husband and tormentor during the American tour, in Philadelphia, on 13 October 1832. He saw her perform, and courted her. She professed herself initially uninterested in his suit. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster. 56 Foner, Eric. “I just get my pistol and shoot him right down”. London Review of Books, Vol. 40 , No. 6, pp. 25-6. 25 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Q. D. Leavis | The Roths were devastated by their daughter's decision to marry a gentile. They disowned her and ceased to give her any financial support. However, this period had its happy moments as well. Q. D. introduced... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Adelaide Procter | AP
's father, Bryan Waller Procter
, was a successful London barrister. As Metropolitan Commissioner of Lunacy (from 1832 to 1861) Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Bryan Waller Procter |
Education | Jean Rhys | At a very young age, JR
imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words... |
Education | Rose Tremain | At this stage of her life, Rosie's great interest and talent was not writing but painting, like her sister. She set out to make a huge, hanging, illustrated copy of Keats
's Ode to Autumn... |
Education | Adrienne Rich | The girls' father also had a strong influence on their education, as he was determined that Adrienne would be a poet and Cynthia would be a novelist. The girls had the run of the family... |
Education | Marie Corelli | Looking back on her early education, MC
wrote I managed to develop into a curiously determined independent little personality, with ideas and opinions more suited to some clever young man. . . . I instinctively... |
Education | Maggie Gee | MG
gives a very funny account of being interviewed for a place at Cambridge
by Queenie Leavis
, whose name she did not recognise, and talking confidently about Keats
in ignorance of the way F. R. Leavis |
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