Cook, Edward. The Life of Florence Nightingale. Macmillan, 1913, 2 vols.
8n1, 39, 139
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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. Cook, Edward. The Life of Florence Nightingale. Macmillan, 1913, 2 vols. 8n1, 39, 139 |
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:... |
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... |
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 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 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 | 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 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 Production | Emma Robinson | ER
, as the author of Whitefriars, etc. but posing as an editor, published The Maid of Orleans, a historical novel about Joan of Arc
. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1152(1849): 1177 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Anne Manning | AM
, as the author of Mary Powell, published A Noble Purpose Nobly Won, An Old, Old Story, a historical novel about Joan of Arc
. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
Textual Production | Margaret Oliphant | MO
published Jeanne d'Arc
; Her Life and Death. “Palmer’s Index to the Times”. Historical Newspapers Online. Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 159. Gale Research, 1996. 159: 253 |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | JP
set Epitaph for Three Women, twelfth of her thirteen Plantagenet novels and one of three this year, after Henry V
's death; its three women are his queen Katherine or Catherine of Valois |
Textual Production | Marina Warner | MW
published Joan of Arc
: The Image of Female Heroism, her study of the legendary Maid of Orleans who became a fearless soldier, a martyr, and eventually a saint. Warner's biography of Joan... |
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