Beauvoir, Simone de. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translator Kirkup, James, Penguin, 2001.
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Anthologization | Christina Stead | A fairy tale by CS
, O, If I Could But Shiver (recast from the brothersGrimm
), appeared in a volume edited by publisher Peter Davies
of retellings of canonical tales, entitled The Fairies... |
Education | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
knew her alphabet at three, and learned to read quickly once she suddenly perceived that the letters were symbols. Beauvoir, Simone de. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translator Kirkup, James, Penguin, 2001. 20 |
Education | Naomi Jacob | One of NJ
's favourite home occupations even as a small child was improvised acting, with her sister in spear-carrying roles. She also learned cricket and football, and her grandfather Collinson taught her whist. She... |
Education | Vernon Lee | Violet also had several German and Swiss governesses. Marie Krebs Schülpbach
, who taught her at Thun in Switzerland when Violet stayed there in 1866-9, was especially influential: they read theGrimms
, Goethe
... |
Education | Carol Ann Duffy | Formative books for the child CAD
were Lewis Carroll
's Alice in Wonderland (a gift from her grandfather when she was seven), Richmal Crompton
's William books (I was William the anarchist and rebel... |
Education | P. L. Travers | PLT
's mother employed a series of Irish nannies to look after and educate her children. Demers, Patricia. P.L. Travers. Twayne, 1991. 2, 5 Haggarty, Ben. “Refining Nectar”. A Lively Oracle: A Centennial Celebration of P.L. Travers, Creator of Mary Poppins, edited by Ellen Dooling Draper and Jenny Koralek, Published for the Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation by Larson Publications, 1999, pp. 19-24. 20 |
Education | Christina Stead | CS
's father
would have liked to have her education entirely in his own hands. The first books to be her favourites were the works of W. T. Stead
, and fairy stories by the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth von Arnim | In Berlin, May von Arnim-Schlagenthin first encountered the works of Goethe
and also of Bettina von Arnim
. The latter was a literary and family forebear of her husband, a poet and an associate... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Ridler | The title poem reflects the influence of the brothersGrimm
's Household Tales and Joseph Jacobs
's More Celtic Fairy Tales. In a footnote AR
relates her golden bird to theirs. Ridler, Anne. The Golden Bird. Faber and Faber, 1951. 49 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Beatrix Potter | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Farjeon | As a play, The Silver Curlew shifts the story of the brothersGrimm
's Rumpelstiltskin to East Anglia, and features King Nollekens of Norfolk. Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae, 1986. 263 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eudora Welty | EW
published her short historical novel The Robber Bridegroom; its title and a haunting (if humorously juxtaposed) fairy-tale element come from stories by the BrothersGrimm
. New York Times. New York Times Company. 19 New York Times. New York Times Company. 6 TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 41 |
Literary responses | Frances Browne | Geraldine Jewsbury
in the Athenæum called Browne's stories extremely graceful and predicted that they would rejoice the hearts of little folks who are not too proud to read about fairies. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1519 (1856): 1497 |
Performance of text | Carol Ann Duffy | CAD
's translations from the brothers GrimmWilhelm Carl Grimm
, Grimm Tales, opened at the Young Vic Theatre
in stage adaptations by Artistic Director, Tim Supple
. Duffy, Carol Ann et al. Grimm Tales. Faber and Faber, 1996. vi |
Publishing | Liz Lochhead |