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,
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.
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...
Literary responses
Carol Rumens
Baby Baby Baby won first prize in the Peterloo Poetry Competition in 2003.
Rumens, Carol. Poems 1968-2004. Bloodaxe Books.
prelims
The volume appeared with praise from distinguished quarters. Anne Stevenson
called CRone of the few women poets writing today whose...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Emily Dickinson
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...
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...
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.
Wagenknecht, Edward. Daughters of the Covenant: Portraits of Six Jewish Women. University of Massachusetts Press.
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Poet Elaine Feinstein
responds to her...
Anthologization
Carol Ann Duffy
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...
Timeline
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Texts
Feinstein, Elaine. The Border. Hutchinson, 1984.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Celebrants. Hutchinson, 1973.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Circle. New Authors, 1970.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Clinic, Memory. Carcanet, 2017.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Ecstasy of Dr. Miriam Garner. Hutchinson, 1976.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Elaine Feinstein Page. http://www.elainefeinstein.com/.
Feinstein, Elaine, and Josef Herman. The Feast of Eurydice. Next Editions in association with Faber and Faber, 1980.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Glass Alembic. Hutchinson, 1973.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Russian Jerusalem. A Novel. Carcanet, 2008.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Survivors. Hutchinson, 1982.