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,
Couzyn, Jeni, editor. The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe Books.
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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.
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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.
Black and white photograph of Elaine Feinstein by Kaido Vainomaa, reading at Shaar International Poetry Festival in Tel_Aviv, 2010. She is seen from the waist up, standing at a microphone, reading from a slim volume that she holds and bends back. She is wearing a shirt with a V-neck and a metal flower necklace. She has wire-framed glasses and short curly hair.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Anna Akhmatova
AA , at Tsarskoe Selo, composed a poem which became one of her best-known: The Grey-Eyed King, on the accidental death out hunting of a young king, which Elaine Feinstein likens to one...
Textual Production Patricia Beer
For the London Review of Books, PB dealt with books by women both in her first review (on 8 November 1979, one month before the magazine first carried one of her poems), where she...
Textual Production Ruth Padel
The thesis (which bears her whole name, Ruth Sofia Padel) is held by the Bodleian Library . She began rewriting it in the form of a book the same year, staying on the island of...
Textual Production Jeni Couzyn
The other poets included are Kathleen Raine , Denise Levertov , Elizabeth Jennings , Elaine Feinstein , Ruth Fainlight , Sylvia Plath , Jenny Joseph , Anne Stevenson , and Fleur Adcock .
Textual Production Emma Tennant
During the 1960s ET wrote for magazines like Queen and Vogue. She was founder-editor of Bananas, a journal of new writing that ran from 1975 to 1981 and attracted contributors like Angela Carter
Textual Production Fay Weldon
FW , with Elaine Feinstein , edited and published the collection New Stories 4.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
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Textual Production Ruth Fainlight
Asked about contemporary poets who interest her, RF named two Americans (Gjertrud Schnackenberg and Anne Carson ), and in England (which she was defining rather loosely) Penelope Shuttle and Sarah Maguire , followed by...
Textual Production Susan Hill
SH 's volume of autobiographical sketches, The Magic Apple Tree: A Country Year, was published with engravings by John Lawrence . In May the BBC ran a 20-minute film about it on their Omnibus...
Textual Features Carol Ann Duffy
Many poems here feature women answering back to canonical male voices: Liz Lochhead to Donne , Jenny Joseph to W. S. Gilbert , U. A. Fanthorpe to Walt Whitman , Wendy Cope to A. E. Housman
Residence Anne Stevenson
They lived at first at 27 Park Parade, opposite Jesus Green in Cambridge, England (a house which was later home to writer Elaine Feinstein and her family).
Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research.
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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.
Reception Storm Jameson
SJ was offered the award of CBE in 1979, but declined.
“The Refuseniks and the Offers They Turned Down”. Sunday Times, p. 5.
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Her books sold well in their time and were translated into Czech, Danish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, and Swedish. Virago re-issued...
Literary responses Nina Bawden
Auberon Waugh 's review of the book was headed: If only nasty Laura had kept her clothes on . . . .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Elaine Feinstein , reviewing it along with Salman Rushdie 's Midnight's Children...
Literary responses Barbara Pym
Reviewers, including Elaine Feinstein and Penelope Fitzgerald ,
Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press.
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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...

Timeline

31 August 1941: Marina Tsvetaeva, poet and playwright, hanged...

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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...

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About October 1973

The Women's Theatre Group (still in being as the Sphinx Theatre Company ) was founded in London as a feminist and socialist theatre group; its twin organization the Women's Theatre Company proved short-lived.

By mid-October 1983: Ursula Owen, editor of Virago Press, published...

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By mid-October 1983

Ursula Owen , editor of Virago Press , published with them an anthology of essays: Fathers: Reflections by Daughters.

September-November 2005: An exhibition at the National Theatre in...

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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).

29 November 2010: Russian poet and translator Bella Akhmadulina...

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29 November 2010

Russian poet and translator Bella Akhmadulina died at the age of seventy-three.
“Bella Akhmadulina”. Edmonton Journal, 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.
Feinstein, Elaine. Lawrence’s Women. HarperCollins, 1993.
Feinstein, Elaine. Loving Brecht. Hutchinson, 1992.
Weldon, Fay, and Elaine Feinstein, editors. New Stories 4. Hutchinson, 1979.
Feinstein, Elaine. Portraits. Carcanet, 2015.
Feinstein, Elaine. Pushkin. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998.
Feinstein, Elaine. Selected Poems. Carcanet, 1994.
Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna, and Max Hayward. Selected Poems [of] Marina Tsvetayeva. Translator Feinstein, Elaine, Oxford University Press, 1971.
Feinstein, Elaine. Some Unease and Angels. Hutchinson, 1977.
Feinstein, Elaine. Talking to the Dead. Carcanet, 2007.
Feinstein, Elaine. Ted Hughes. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Amberstone Exit. Hutchinson, 1972.