Cook, Edward. The Life of Florence Nightingale. Macmillan, 1913, 2 vols.
8n1, 39, 139
Joan of Arc
Standard Name: Joan of Arc
Used Form: Jeanne d'Arc
Used Form: Joan d'Arc
Used Form: Maid of Orleans
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Florence Nightingale | In this year, 1854, Elizabeth Gaskell
visited the Nightingales' Derbyshire home, Lea Hurst, and stayed on there to write when the family left for Embley Park. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | George Bernard Shaw | Saint Joan, a history play by GBS
responding to Joan
's recent canonization, had its London opening at the New Theatre
, starring Sybil Thorndike
. The role was crucial for Thorndike, who was... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Hélène Cixous | HC
underlines her argument by examining myth. The mythical image of Perseus before the Medusa is invoked to describe a male fear of woman, and she calls women the dark region of men's world, saying:... |
| Literary responses | Elinor James | EJ
's Vindication of the Church of England drew a satirical response which shows it had hit its target. An Address of Thanks On Behalf of the Church of England, by an anonymous dissenter... |
| Literary responses | Sylvia Pankhurst | The book was well received, and enhanced SP
's reputation with the general public. George Bernard Shaw
praised it in a speech on the BBC
in which he compared SP
to Joan of Arc
... |
| Literary Setting | Beatrice Harraden | The stories, not arranged chronologically, cover periods from the ancient Greeks and Romans through the middle ages. Named characters include William of Wykeham
(founder of Winchester College
and of New College, Oxford
), the pioneer... |
| Literary Setting | Felicia Hemans | The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth
, Byron
, Coleridge
, Goethe
, Schiller
—and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger |
| Textual Features | Evelyn Sharp | She wrote of their presence at a public procession: Joan of Arc
. . . was not more typical of the spirit that leads to victory . . . than was the paper-seller, dressed in... |
| Textual Features | Cecily Mackworth | CM
notes that Villon was born in the year the English burned Joan of Arc
. That is to say, using the style of a book published in 1838 entitled Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris... |
| Textual Features | Cicely Hamilton | The historical women characters are grouped as the Learned, the Heroic, etc. As well as them, the action involves the abstract characters Prejudice and Justice. It is not Justice but Joan of Arc
, one... |
| Textual Production | Christopher St John | The Catholic Women's Suffrage Society
sponsored a performance of the play, since they saw Macrena as very much akin to their own patron saint, Joan of Arc
. |
| Textual Production | Robert Southey | RS
published his epic poem Joan of Arc. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 2nd ser. 16 (1796): 191 |
| Textual Production | Ethel Smyth | ES
's Female Pipings in Eden, a volume of collected essays, included a memoir of Emmeline Pankhurst
, whom she considered more astounding than Joan of Arc
. Smyth, Ethel. Female Pipings in Eden. Second Edition, Peter Davies, 1934. title-page qtd. in Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1661 (30 November 1933): 851 |
| Textual Production | George Bernard Shaw | GBS
's history play Saint Joan, a provocative treatment of Joan of Arc
, was first produced in New York, three months ahead of the London opening. Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxviii Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ . 28 December 2007 |
| Textual Production | Anna Eliza Bray | AEB
published, as Mrs. Bray, a biography entitled Joan of Arc
and the Times of Charles the Seventh
, King of France. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989. |
Timeline
Early May 1429: Joan of Arc forced the English to raise their...
National or international item
Early May 1429
Joan of Arc
forced the English to raise their siege of Orléans, France.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
7: 342
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
92, 94
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
1: 89, 401
30 May 1431: Following her trial for heresy, Joan of Arc...
National or international item
30 May 1431
Following her trial for heresy, Joan of Arc
was burned at Rouen under English occupying forces.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
204
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
702
11 September 1801: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller's...
Writing climate item
11 September 1801
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
's tragedy Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans) was first produced, in Leipzig, with tremendous success.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
94
1876: By this date, women healers were so popular...
Building item
1876
By this date, women healers were so popular among spiritualists that one consultation often cost as much as a guinea.
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
115-17
17 June 1911: The Women's Coronation Procession was attended...
National or international item
17 June 1911
The Women's Coronation Procession was attended by 40,000 women from at least twenty-eight women's suffrage organisations, including both the Women's Social and Political Union
and the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
.
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
122-32
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
109
16 May 1920: Joan of Arc was canonised as a saint of the...
Building item
16 May 1920
Joan of Arc
was canonised as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church
.
Sackville-West, Vita. Saint Joan of Arc. Cobden-Sanderson, 1936.
title-page
30 May 1941: At the instigation of Charles de Gaulle,...
National or international item
30 May 1941
At the instigation of Charles de Gaulle
, the feast-day of Saint Joan of Arc
was marked in Nazi
-occupied France by informal groups of people walking the streets of our towns and our villages...
1 March 1993: Leslie Feinberg, US writer and transgender...
Writing climate item
1 March 1993
Leslie Feinberg
, US writer and transgender activist, published her probably most famous work, Stone Butch Blues, a novel about growing up, as she had done herself, as a butch lesbian who rejected conventional sexual roles.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
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