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Education | Christina Rossetti | Christina and her siblings were educated by their mother
, in reading, writing, the Bible and rudimentary French. The boys were sent to school when they were seven, while the girls continued at home. Their... |
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... |
Publishing | Percy Bysshe Shelley | PBS
had Adonais, his elegy on the death of Keats
, printed at Pisa. He sent a copy of this edition to John Gisborne
on this date. The poem was printed at London... |
death | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The facts about Shelley's death were at first confused, and it was the kind of event that lends itself to mythologizing. The boat, the Don Juan, was badly designed for strong winds and was being... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Nan Shepherd | NS
's foreword mentions a great deal that has happened in the thirty years since this book was written, although those years are the flicker of an eyelid in the life of a mountain: the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ali Smith | Autumn centres around the intergenerational friendship of 32-year-old art-history lecturer Elisabeth Demand and her childhood neighbour, the clever and lively Daniel Gluck, now 101 years old and quietly existing in a care home. Through silent... |
Education | Freya Stark | Family friends sympathetic to Freya's feelings of entrapment at Dronero sent her gifts of books: she was especially passionate about Shakespeare
, Sir Walter Scott
, Byron
, Keats
, Kipling
, Shelley
, Wordsworth |
Textual Production | Freya Stark | The title echoes a phrase from Keats
's sonnet On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer. |
Textual Features | Mary Stewart | These are highly literary poems. In her preface MS
invokes Keats
. She writes on mythological topics, both Biblical (Eve, Cain, Mary) and classical (Icarus, Persephone). She titles poems with an eye to her predecessors... |
Literary responses | Mary Tighe | When Thomas Moore
read Psyche he expressed his pleasure to MT
in a short lyric which calls her by the name of her protagonist, Psyche; at her death he eulogised her by the same... |
Literary responses | Mary Tighe | As soon as it was brought to public attention (as the work of a woman who had died tragically young), Psyche attracted a rush of attention. The Quarterly Review accorded Tighe high praise as being... |
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... |
Textual Production | Helen Waddell | HW
provided an introduction for William Forbes Marshall
's Ballads and Verses from Tyrone, published by the Talbot Press
of Dublin in 1929, and an Appreciation for George Saintsbury
's Shakespeare, 1934. |
Publishing | Doreen Wallace | DW
's next novel, Creatures of an Hour, which also appeared in 1933 (title adapted from a love-poem by Keats
), was her last before she switched, in 1934, her publisher from Ernest Benn |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Augusta Ward | Perhaps the most interesting is her review (March 1884) of Harry Buxton Forman
's recent edition of Keats
. Ward argues that the letters to Fanny Brawne
ought not to have been made public. (She... |
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