Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. In Your Blossoming Flower-Garden. Sahitya Akademi, p. xxiv; 477 pp.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Ella Hepworth Dixon | Initial members of the Club included Sidney Low
, Mrs H. G. Wells
, Lady Mond (later Lady Melchett)
, William Heinemann, May Sinclair
, W. B. Yeats
, Robert Ross
, Gertrude Kinnell
,... |
Textual Production | Ella Hepworth Dixon | It was titled after Alexander Pope
(the moving toyshop of the heart, when a toyshop stocked fashionable stuff for adults) in a line later near-echoed by W. B. Yeats
. This performance, at a... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ella Hepworth Dixon | In a chapter devoted to Some Women Writers she praises, among others, Sheila Kaye-Smith
, Margaret Kennedy
(particularly for The Constant Nymph), Elizabeth von Arnim
, and Violet Hunt
. Authors who receive whole... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maureen Duffy | The book has three sections. The poems in Missa Humana correspond to different items in the Mass: from Kyrie (Lord, have mercy, a three-stanza poem which invokes the manmade suffering of children around the... |
Textual Features | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | |
Friends, Associates | George Egerton | After the success of her Keynotes, GE
became acquainted with the literary and intellectual world. Among her new acquaintances she expressed admiration for Havelock Ellis
but called W. B. Yeats
a poseur. Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press. 34 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Farr | W. B. Yeats
became interested in FF
when he saw her play the role of a shepherdess in John Todhunter
's play A Sicilian Idyll, and was transfixed by her voice. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe. 39-40 |
Cultural formation | Florence Farr | W. B. Yeats
introduced FF
to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
, a secret occult society based on Rosicrucian beliefs and practices. Gilbert, R. A., and Florence Farr. “Preface to the Collectanea Hermetica Series”. Egyptian Magic, Aquarian Press, p. vi. vi Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe. 71 |
Occupation | Florence Farr | W. B. Yeats
invited FF
to act as stage manager for the Irish Literary Theatre
in Dublin for its production of The Countess Cathleen the following year. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe. 102 |
Occupation | Florence Farr | W. B. Yeats
and FF
gave a lecture on Poetry and the Living Voice at Clifford's Inn in Fleet Street: Yeats presented his theory of musical recitation, and then Farr illustrated by chanting a... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Florence Farr | Late in her career FF
published a second novel, The Solemnization of Jacklin: Some Adventures on the Search for Reality, whose heroine gives birth to a mystical child derived from the writing of Yeats
. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe. 177 D’Arch Smith, Timothy, and Florence Farr. “Introduction”. Egyptian Magic, Aquarian Press, p. ix - xvii. xvi Litz, A. Walton. “Florence Farr: A ’Transitional’ Woman”. High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture, 1889-1939, edited by Maria DiBattista and Lucy McDiarmid, Oxford University Press, pp. 85-106. 86 |
Textual Production | Florence Farr | FF
published The Music of Speech, a detailed account of the technique she developed in collaboration with W. B. Yeats
for reading poetry set to music. Farr, Florence. The Music of Speech. Elkin Mathews. title-page TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 376 (25 March 1909): 119 |
Author summary | Florence Farr | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Farr | They separated after four years, when Emery left for America. He became a successful actor there, and eventually remarried. Their reasons for separating are not clear, and FF
rarely mentioned him after he left. Years... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Farr | FF
is now probably best remembered for her personal and professional relationships with two literary men, Bernard Shaw
and W. B. Yeats
. It seems that she met Shaw at William Morris
's house in... |
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