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 Excerpt
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, 1999.
199: 302-3
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.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
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, 1993, 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.
qtd. in
Mermin, Dorothy. Godiva’s Ride: Women of Letters in England 1830-1880. Indiana University Press, 1993.
xiv
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Brownell Jameson
The fragments consider the art criticism of Ruskin and the philosophies of Carlyle on the question of happiness. Others concern her Anglican faith, sexism in the profession of writing, Joan of Arc , and her...
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, 2018.
203
Education is...

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.
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...

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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...

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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...

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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.
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...

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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 .
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...

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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.
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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.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

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