O’Conor Eccles, Charlotte. Modern Men. Leadenhall Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | COCE
headed her book with two lines from Thomas Campion
: Alas, poor book . . . go spread thy papery wings. / Thy lightness cannot help or hurt my fame. O’Conor Eccles, Charlotte. Modern Men. Leadenhall Press. prelims |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maggie Gee | Like her first novel to see print, Gee says, this one took seven years to find a publisher. Speaking about it at a date fairly early in its long quest for print, she mentioned that... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Sarah Hoey | Miriam finds local gossip that Florence is attempting to entrap her father ludicrous, and describes it as a comic parallel to Vanity Fair, with Florence not as Becky Sharp but as Amelia having to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The paired heroines of The Lady's Mile each tread close to being seduced across that camouflaged barrier after each has, for quite different reasons, entered a loveless marriage. The beautiful, aristocratic, and noble but impoverished... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Evelyn Sharp | The protagonist is called Becky Sharp, a name which interestingly combines a clue as to self-portraiture with homage to Thackeray
's equally intelligent though less sensitive and feeling heroine. This Becky is a child who... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | William Makepeace Thackeray
is undoubtedly the single largest influence on ATR
's writing. Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, p. various pages. passim Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, p. various pages. 65 |
Intertextuality and Influence | J. K. Rowling | Robert Galbraith has his own website, which details his military background and his work first for the military police and then in private security. He says his flamboyant, unusual mother came from Cornwall and went... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Porter | Felix Charlemont fights in the Napoleonic wars, and one battle scene verbally prefigures Thackeray
's account of Waterloo in Vanity Fair: The roar of artillery and musketry continued long after Charlemont fell; at length... |
Health | Adelaide Procter | AP
's health was poor from an early age. A letter from William Thackeray
describes her at the age of fourteen as vomiting basins of blood. She went to Italy for a year in 1853-54... |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
's later social circle included many writers: Sydney, Lady Morgan
, who became a close friend and for whom GJ
acted as amanuensis; author Lady Llanover
; author and publisher Douglas Jerrold
; and... |
Friends, Associates | Adelaide Procter | AP
's parents entertained a circle of well-known literary personages, including Leigh Hunt
, William Hazlitt
, Thomas Moore
, Wordsworth
, Tennyson
, Longfellow
, and Henry James
. Intimates of the household included... |
Friends, Associates | Adelaide Kemble | The friends of her married life included the artist Leighton
, sculptor Hattie Hosmer
, authors Charles Hamilton Aïdé
, Henry Greville
, William Makepeace Thackeray
, and Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
. She... |
Friends, Associates | Adelaide Procter | Kemble describes AP
in this setting as looking already like a poet, with a preternaturally thoughtful, mournful expression for a little child. Kemble, Fanny. Records of a Girlhood. Henry Holt. 499 |
Friends, Associates | Fanny Kemble | When she returned to London, she associated with a group of friends who regularly assembled at her home, including William Makepeace Thackeray
and Alfred Tennyson
. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster. 34 |
Friends, Associates | Anthony Trollope | Trollope was a friend of William Thackeray
, G. H. Lewes
, Richard Monckton Milnes
, George Eliot
, William Russell
, and John Everett Millais
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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