Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Elaine Feinstein
Standard Name: Feinstein, Elaine
Birth Name: Elaine Cooklin
Married Name: Elaine Feinstein
By early 2001 EF
had published fifteen novels and thirteen poetry collections, besides translation, biography, and drama, most of it for radio or television. She has given different answers to the question whether her poetry or fiction is primary. In 1985 she said that if pushed she would call herself first and foremost a poet,
qtd. in
Couzyn, Jeni, editor. The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe Books, 1985.
116
but some years later she said that whichever she was working on recently tends to be her favourite genre.
Pacernick, Gary. Meaning and Memory: Interviews with Fourteen Jewish Poets. Ohio State University Press, 2001.
190
In most of her writing she is an interpreter, bringing work from one language or one medium into another, opening (through poems or novels) historical periods and actual events and people to the enquiring gaze of the creative imagination.
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In the same year CAD
's Poet to Prose-Writer, a version from Pushkin
, stood first of the six pieces by her among the translations, versions of and responses by British, Irish, and American...
Fictionalization
Amy Levy
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
in his poem Broken Music characterizes her verse as wierdly incomplete; / Here a proud mind, self-baffled and self-stung, / Lies coiled in dark defeat.
qtd. in
Wagenknecht, Edward. Daughters of the Covenant: Portraits of Six Jewish Women. University of Massachusetts Press, 1983.
58
Poet Elaine Feinstein
responds to her...
Friends, Associates
Ruth Fainlight
Hughes and Plath were about to leave for Devon, but this did not halt the intimacy developing between the two women. Plath stayed with Fainlight and Sillitoe when she visited London, and the London couple...
Because of the extent to which ED
's concentrated and elusive verse, as well as her dissent from religious and social orthodoxies, seem to presage modernism, she has been considered the sole serious writer among...
Intertextuality and Influence
Ruth Padel
The cover features battered old leather suitcases of a kind no longer seen in use. The first two names in enumerated among recipients of RP
's [w]arm thanks for criticism and comment are those of...
Literary responses
Pamela Hansford Johnson
Reviewers, who knew their notices of this book were valedictory, concentrated on PHJ
's remarkable ability to create complex and convincing characters.
Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994.
213
were most of them low-key, though Bernard Levin
greeted it with a broadside against its village setting, which, he said, reinforced his conviction that the best...
Literary responses
Nina Bawden
Auberon Waugh
's review of the book was headed: If only nasty Laura had kept her clothes on . . . .
qtd. in
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
207
Elaine Feinstein
, reviewing it along with Salman Rushdie
's Midnight's Children...
Reception
Storm Jameson
SJ
was offered the award of CBE in 1979, but declined.
“The Refuseniks and the Offers They Turned Down”. Sunday Times, 21 Dec. 2003, p. 5.
5
Her books sold well in their time and were translated into Czech, Danish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, and Swedish. Virago
re-issued...
Reception
Ruth Fainlight
RF
has drawn appreciative comment from fellow poets and writers like Helen Dunmore
, A. S. Byatt
, and Elaine Feinstein
(who has written that in a time when every poet is wooed by the...
Reception
Karen Gershon
Peter Lawson
has considered KB's work in Anglo-Jewish Poetry from Isaac Rosenberg
to Elaine Feinstein, 2006.
Timeline
31 August 1941: Marina Tsvetaeva, poet and playwright, hanged...
Writing climate item
31 August 1941
Marina Tsvetaeva
, poet and playwright, hanged herself in the small town of Elabuga, USSR, either during or just after she was visited by agents of the NKVD
or People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs...
About October 1973: The Women's Theatre Group (still in being...
September-November 2005: An exhibition at the National Theatre in...
Writing climate item
September-November 2005
An exhibition at the National Theatre
in London, Flogging the Jewels, celebrated thirty years of the company now called Sphinx
(formerly the Women's Theatre Group).
de Angelis, April. “Riddle of the Sphinx”. Guardian Unlimited, 10 Sept. 2005.
29 November 2010: Russian poet and translator Bella Akhmadulina...
Writing climate item
29 November 2010
Russian poet and translator Bella Akhmadulina
died at the age of seventy-three.
“Bella Akhmadulina”. Edmonton Journal, 2 Jan. 2011, p. E7.
Texts
Feinstein, Elaine. A Captive Lion. Hutchinson, 1987.
Feinstein, Elaine. Anna of all the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2005.
Feinstein, Elaine. Badlands. Hutchinson, 1986.
Feinstein, Elaine. Cities. Carcanet, 2010.
Feinstein, Elaine. City Music. Hutchinson, 1990.
Feinstein, Elaine. Collected Poems and Translations. Carcanet, 2002.
Feinstein, Elaine. Dark Inheritance. Women’s Press, 2000.
Feinstein, Elaine. Daylight. Carcanet, 1997.
Feinstein, Elaine. Dreamers. Macmillan, 1994.
Feinstein, Elaine. Gold. Carcanet, 2000.
Feinstein, Elaine. In a Green Eye. Goliard, 1966.
Feinstein, Elaine, and Storm Jameson. “Introduction”. None Turn Back, Virago, 1984, p. i - vii.
Feinstein, Elaine. It Goes with the Territory. Alma, 2013.
Feinstein, Elaine. Lady Chatterley’s Confession. Macmillan, 1995.