Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research.
10: 133
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Textual Production | Clemence Dane | CD
collaborated with Richard Addinsell
, who wrote the music, on an adaptation of Lewis Carroll
's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research. 10: 133 |
Textual Production | Carol Ann Duffy | At about seven CAD
enjoyed Carroll
's Alice in Wonderland so much that she began writing a continuation as soon as she finished the book. When she was eleven or twelve an inspirational English teacher... |
Textual Production | Penelope Shuttle | On her seventieth birthday PS
published a volume of poetry titled from a surreal line by Lewis Carroll
about joining in a quadrille: Will you Walk a little Faster?, dedicated to my family and... |
Textual Production | Frances Horovitz | Greg Gatanby
included FH
's poem Invocation in his Whales: A Celebration, 1983. This anthology comprises excerpts from literature, legends, myths, religions, and poetry from around the world. Among others included are Jonathan Swift |
Textual Production | Githa Sowerby | Before she turned her talents to drama, GS
published eleven children's books, most of them in verse. All were illustrated by her sister, Millicent Sowerby
, who also illustrated editions of Lewis Carroll
's Alice's... |
Textual Production | Elspeth Huxley | |
Textual Production | Noel Streatfeild | In 1961 NS
had the honour of appearing in Bodley Head
's series of monographs on children's writers, where she joined such household names as Mary Louisa Molesworth
, Juliana Horatia Ewing
, Lewis Carroll |
Textual Production | Ngaio Marsh | She pursued other interests in other mysteries, like Spinsters in Jeopardy (US publication late 1953; British publication early 1954, which drags Alleyn from an innocent family holiday to investigate events involving an esoteric religious... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Yonge | Its full title was The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Younger Members of the English Church. Its circulation ran at about 1,500. It had no staff, no office, no fixed day of publication... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Bowen | She had intended the title-piece to be an unconventional autobiography, focused on the relationship between art and life, Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf. 288 |
Textual Production | Flannery O'Connor | At about nine Mary Flannery O'Connor
gathered a small group of friends to whom, in a wooden play-house among the chickens, she would read from her pages and pages of handwritten stories about a family... |
Textual Features | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | Literary biographer Kathleen Hickok
notes that the tale is full of oblique eroticism, fairy episodes, and Romantic imagery, with a realistic frame tale of female innocence, modern marriage, and disillusionment with eros, pleasure, and idleness... |
Textual Features | Naomi Royde-Smith | NRS
begins with Sherwood's work as a children's writer, and the sway held by her Evangelical texts from about 1812 to 1850. She credits Lewis Carroll
in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with outdating the didactic... |
Textual Features | Jean Ingelow | In the fantastic style rather like that of Lewis Carroll
(whose first Alice book appeared in 1865), JI
abandons her formerly didactic tone and presents a whimsical world of imagination inhabited by fairies, gypsies, and... |
Textual Features | Marina Warner | She begins with the Enlightenment thinking which displaced the ideas of Aristotle
. Her first chapter is entitled, surprisingly, Wax; the others are Air, Clouds, Light, Shadow, Mirror, Ghost... |