Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Michèle Roberts | The contents of this volume span a range of genres and moods. poems about places or natural objects observe with precision; love poems are often ambivalent: won't you make my blood / jump? won't you... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Laura Riding | The original typescript of 200,000 words covered such topics as Joan of Arc
, French poets, suicide . . . English romantic poetry, bulls, George Sand
, and so on. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books. 197 |
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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | She opens her discussion here with a question: What does the Woman's Movement mean and what is its significance in our modern life? Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. The Meaning of the Woman’s Movement. Woman’s Press. 3 |
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
... |
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. 159: 253 |
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. 8n1, 39, 139 |
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. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sara Maitland | This genre seems almost impossible in the late twentieth century, but the authors believe that saints today are potentially spiritual resources whose presences through the traces they have left behind in the minds of the... |
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... |
names | Constance Lytton | Her notorious nom de guerre was chosen with no thought of Jane Warton
the eighteenth-century writer, but from a sympathetic relative named Warburton (which she altered because of distinguished bearers of that name) and from... |
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 |
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 | 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 | 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 |
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