Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
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Literary responses | Jean Ingelow | U. C. Knoepflmacher
notes the extent to which Mopsa has been misread . . . as a slavish dependence on Carroll
'sAlice in Wonderland, and seeks to counter this by offering a sustained... |
Literary responses | Louisa May Alcott | Among a chorus of praise from those who read LMA
when they were young, Edith Wharton
stands out as harder to please. In her memoir A Backward Glance, 1934, she recalls how her mother... |
Literary responses | Augusta Webster | The book could hardly have been written, said the Athenæum, unless Kingsley
's Water Babies and Lewis Carroll
's Alice in Wonderland had preceded it. It pronounced the book's much ado without nothing is... |
Literary responses | E. Nesbit | In 1915 EN
was granted a Civil List
pension of sixty pounds a year. She was pleased but not overwhelmed at this honour, and thought it ought not to have been taxed. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 365-6 |
politics | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
was a fervent anti-vivisectionist. She followed the issue of experiments on animals closely from early in her career. By 1874 she was petitioning the RSPCA
to pursue legislation restricting vivisection: Robert Browning
, Thomas Carlyle |
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... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | These delightful tales feature several fairies. The first is tiny: The tip of her chin / Seem'd the point of a pin, / And her eye-lashes nothing at all. Wolferstan, Elizabeth Pipe. Fairy Tales in Verse. Baldwin and Cradock; T. G. Lomax. 5 |
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... |
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