Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge.
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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Isabella Banks | IB
's Labour's Progress and Triumph traces the rise of industry from its quasi-mythological beginnings, when the Romans landed in Britain, to the present, when oppression's star has set, and men are free / To... |
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. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Charles | EC
published the short work Joan the Maid, which precedes Margaret Oliphant
's biography of Joan of Arc by seventeen years. 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 | Christine de Pisan | Christine de Pisan
finished her Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc, a poem commemorating Joan of Arc
's victory at Orléans that year, and the subsequent coronation of Charles VII
. McLeod, Glenda P., and Christine de Pisan. “Introduction”. Christine de Pizan: Christine’s Vision, Garland, p. xi - lv. xxi |
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:... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | All the five subjects are royal or noble (like the subjects of Agnes Strickland
), except one: Joan of Arc
, whom MGF
ardently admired. The others include the writer Marguerite de Navarre
and her... |
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... |
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 |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Brownell Jameson | One of the book's discussions centres on Joan of Arc
, and sees in her life a dilemma particular to women: the price which all must pay for celebrity in some shape or other. Mermin, Dorothy. Godiva’s Ride: Women of Letters in England 1830-1880. Indiana University Press. xiv |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Brownell Jameson | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Her blank verse celebrates female historical figures ranging from Joan of Arc
to Queen Victoria
. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research. 199: 302-3 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria Jane Jewsbury | The more than thirty poems in the volume include ballads and lyrics, as well as Historical Sketches that recount the lives of Joan of Arc
and Mary, Queen of Scots
. The poem To Death... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Lennox | The Lady's Museum is rich in illustrations (and boasts one musical score). Its frontispiece (copied by The Lady's Magazine of 1789) shows a studious woman from whom Cupid's dart is being deflected. Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press. 203 |
Timeline
Early May 1429: Joan of Arc forced the English to raise their...
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Early May 1429
Joan of Arc
forced the English to raise their siege of Orléans, France.
30 May 1431: Following her trial for heresy, Joan of Arc...
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30 May 1431
Following her trial for heresy, Joan of Arc
was burned at Rouen under English occupying forces.
11 September 1801: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller's...
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11 September 1801
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
's tragedyDie Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans) was first produced, in Leipzig, with tremendous success.
1876: By this date, women healers were so popular...
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1876
By this date, women healers were so popular among spiritualists that one consultation often cost as much as a guinea.
17 June 1911: The Women's Coronation Procession was attended...
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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
.
16 May 1920: Joan of Arc was canonised as a saint of the...
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16 May 1920
Joan of Arc
was canonised as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church
.
30 May 1941: At the instigation of Charles de Gaulle,...
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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...
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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.
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