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Literary responses | Anne Bacon | In recent times but well before the renaissance of interest in women writers as such, in his volume on the sixteenth century in the august Oxford History of English Literature, C. S. Lewis
pronounced... |
Education | Malorie Blackman | MB
was shaped by her reading outside school. She never entered a bookshop until she was fourteen, but relied on libraries. Early favourites were C. S. Lewis
's Narnia books, Johanna Spyri
's Heidi books... |
Instructor | Elaine Feinstein | She later felt she was lucky to be a postwar student; before then, she would have been as out of place at Newnham as Amy Levy
. Christianity was everywhere Feinstein, Elaine. It Goes with the Territory. Alma. 37 |
Literary responses | Marie de France | Having been influential for a couple of centuries after her period of activity, MF re-entered modern literary consciousness with a late-eighteenth-century critical work by Gervais de La Rue
, translated into English under the auspices... |
Textual Features | Charlotte McCarthy | Her Letters Moral and Entertaining seem written on the model of Elizabeth Singer Rowe
's Friendship in Death. One is from a departed Spirit, to his Friend in this World. McCarthy, Charlotte. Justice and Reason. printed for the author. 202 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | The poem The Witch in the Wardrobe, as ENC
explained to Colette Bryce
, comes in part from the The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
, in which a... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Kathleen Nott | Here KN
writes a lively style, with ingenious images and examples, paradoxes like giving a name a bad dog (by which she means taking a concept like Liberalism or Science and using it pejoratively), Nott, Kathleen. The Emperor’s Clothes. Heinemann. 43 |
Literary responses | Kathleen Nott | This book was controversial. Philip Toynbee
called it a rare example of vigorous polemic, witty, hard-hitting and deeply serious. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2705 (4 December 1953): 773 |
Cultural formation | Ruth Pitter | RP
was baptised an Anglican as a baby by parents who had trained at Church of England colleges but were not churchgoers. Russell, Arthur et al. “Faithful to Delight: A Portrait Sketch”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, pp. 19-40. 29 |
Cultural formation | Ruth Pitter | RP
became a Christian and was confirmed as an Anglican during the second world war. She wrote, There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking—well—I must find... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ruth Pitter | RP
had a lifelong companion in Kathleen, or K, O'Hara
, with whom she both worked and, from soon after the start of their business partnership, lived. It does not appear that this was an... |
Friends, Associates | Ruth Pitter | Despite her singularly unleisured lifestyle, RP
had a remarkable talent for friendship, which extended to people with whom she might be expected to have little in common. Her friendship with Lord David Cecil
brought her... |
politics | Ruth Pitter | In December 1949 RP
participated in a two-day debate held in C. S. Lewis
's rooms at Magdalen College, Oxford
, on whether women ought to be parsons. King, Don W. “The Anatomy of a Friendship: the correspondence of Ruth Pitter and C. S. Lewis, 1946-1962: Mythlore, Summer 2003”. Findarticles. 2 |
Literary responses | Ruth Pitter | RP
hunted out a copy of this book to present to C. S. Lewis when they first met in July 1946, writing that she thought it, though only grotesque & satirical . . . my... |
Literary responses | Ruth Pitter | RP
said of the Hawthornden Prize, That brought me out into the daylight. Russell, Arthur et al. “Faithful to Delight: A Portrait Sketch”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, pp. 19-40. 35 King, Don W. “The Anatomy of a Friendship: the correspondence of Ruth Pitter and C. S. Lewis, 1946-1962: Mythlore, Summer 2003”. Findarticles. 2 |