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John Steinbeck
Standard Name: Steinbeck, John
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Sue Townsend | ST
was eight before she learned to read but from then on, although she did poorly at school, she read with enthusiasm. After Richmal Crompton
(Just William) came Charlotte Brontë
: Jane Eyre... |
| Friends, Associates | Isak Dinesen | Dinesen was fascinated by Monroe's prettiness, vitality, and innocence: they reminded her, she said, of a lion cub. The old and the young woman danced together (though not, as legend relates, on the table). |
| politics | Alice Munro | After her return to Huron County in 1975, AM
became embroiled in cultural politics. Her Lives of Girls and Women was banned from a high school in Peterborough, Ontario, as immoral in early 1976... |
| Reception | Angela Thirkell | This, like all its immediate predecessors, met with excellent reviews, even though Hugh Walpole
regretted its lack of plot. Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth, 1977. 120 |
| Textual Production | Madeleine Lucette Ryley | The play's title comes from well-known lines in Robert Burns
's poem To a Mouse about plans going haywire (as does John Steinbeck
's better-known novella Of Mice and Men, 1937). Engle, Sherry D. New Women Dramatists in America, 1890-1920. Palgrave MacMilan, 2007. 79 |
| 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 |
Timeline
14 March 1939: John Steinbeck caused a sensation with his...
Writing climate item
14 March 1939
John Steinbeck
caused a sensation with his novel The Grapes of Wrath, about the hardships and exploitation visited on a family displaced from their Oklahoma farm to California by dust-bowl conditions.
“Victims of Mammon”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1962, 9 Sept. 1939, p. 525.
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Texts
Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men. Covici Friede, 1937.