Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Thomas Hardy
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Standard Name: Hardy, Thomas
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was a poet by vocation and became a novelist by profession. The Wessex of his novels has made him arguably a regional novelist. As well as a prolific output in both these forms, he published a unique verse epic bringing together human and supernatural characters, short fiction, a volume for children, and two volumes of actual autobiography masquerading as a biography by his second wife. Since his career as a publishing novelist ran from the 1870s to the 1890s, and his first volume of poetry post-dated his final novel, he has been seen as a Victorian novelist but a mostly twentieth-century poet. This description, however, is not true to the facts of composition. He wrote poetry from early in his life, but did not publish it in volume form until his final novel.
Others with whom she shared this or that memorable experience were the Meynells (Wilfrid
, Alice
, and Viola
), Clarence Rook
and his wife, and Henry W. Nevinson
, whom she eventually married...
Friends, Associates
Rosamund Marriott Watson
She was introduced to writer Thomas Hardy
some time in 1889. They had a flirtation (both in person and by letter) which left Hardy the disappointed partner,
Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell.
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possibly after she rejected his advances in...
Friends, Associates
Dora Sigerson
After her marriage, DS
became acquainted with a number of notable literary figures, including George Meredith
(who wrote the introduction to The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter, 1907), Thomas Hardy
(who wrote the...
Health
May Sinclair
As early as October 1908 MS
was told that she had strained her heart by exercise (her bicycling trip with Thomas Hardy
) and ought to be careful.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
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In view of her family's history...
Intertextuality and Influence
Violet Hunt
VH
was fascinated by the mysterious throughout her life. As a small girl, she loved to listen to her mother talk about the White Lady, a spirit haunting the kitchen of Margaret Hunt
's...
Intertextuality and Influence
Alice Munro
Carried Away begins with two lonely young people building an unlikely relationship by letter. Louisa, town librarian of Carstairs, Ontario, in 1917, lives in a hotel and eats her solitary meal each day with...
Intertextuality and Influence
P. D. James
As the work opens, Cordelia, slight of body, determined of will, savvy of mind
Gidez, Richard. P. D. James. Twayne.
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(who is to reappear later in another book, The Skull Beneath the Skin), is running a seedy detective agency...
Intertextuality and Influence
Lesley Storm
At last Peter confronts and questions Delia directly, and finds that he was indeed the Delia's rapist, though he remembers the encounter between them not as forced, but as mutual: a first bumbling, confused, frightened...
Intertextuality and Influence
Kathleen Jamie
In the third section the transcendental is a frequent presence. (Even in the first, Lepidoptery was about collecting, and pinning by the wings, not butterflies but angels.) Now in a number of markedly topical poems...
Intertextuality and Influence
W. H. Auden
While an undergraduate at Oxford (from October 1925) he discovered T. S. Eliot
, and was for a while obsessively modernist, as he had previously been traditional in the style of Thomas Hardy
. He...
Intertextuality and Influence
Phyllis Bentley
The title, from Hardy
, carries connotations of blind, indifferent fate directing the course of human existence.
Intertextuality and Influence
Ann Quin
In her short autobiographical article Leaving School—XI, AQ
mentions having been writing stories since the age of seven to entertain myself.
Quin, Ann. “Leaving School—XI”. London Magazine, Vol.
new series 6
, pp. 63-8.
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Her urge to write was fostered by her discovery of Dostoyevsky
's...