Joan of Arc

Standard Name: Joan of Arc
Used Form: Jeanne d'Arc
Used Form: Joan d'Arc
Used Form: Maid of Orleans

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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 wrote her first screenplay, for the film Joan of Arc.
Moseley, Merritt, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 194. Gale Research, 1998.
194: 279
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.
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 Vita Sackville-West
VSW published a biography, Saint Joan of Arc, with the publishers Cobden-Sanderson ; the full title was Saint Joan of Arc: Born, January 6, 1412, Burned as a Heretic, May 20, 1431, Canonized as...
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...
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...
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 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 Augusta Webster
The women speakers of Dramatic Studies include the imprisoned Jeanne d'Arc. By the Looking-Glass gives voice to a plain girl seated beside her bedroom mirror after she has arrived home from a ball. Skilled...

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