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
Literary responses D. H. Lawrence
Katherine Anne Porter 's opinion that the novel was the fevered day-dream of a dying man . . . indulging his sexual fantasies
Parkes, Adam. Modernism and the Theatre of Censorship. Oxford University Press.
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was cited by the prosecution. Elaine Feinstein considers that the jury...
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...
Friends, Associates Ruth Padel
RP is a friend of Elaine Feinstein .
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...
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 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...
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...
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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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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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.