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...
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, 2005.
197
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
First of all, she answers, the movement signifies the awakening of...
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Marina Warner
The book presents Joan
as a unique historical figure, for she was not a queen, a courtesan, a beauty, a mother, an artist, or (until very long after her death) a saint. Warner argues that...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Katharine Tynan
In this first volume KT
establishes three themes that recur throughout her later poetry collections: religion, Ireland, and nature. The four monologues here are spoken by historical or legendary heroines: Louise de la Vallière...
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
Travel
Emma Roberts
She wished to see the remarkable changes that had taken place in India over the past decade. In fact only parts of her journey were overland, but it was still unusual not to make the...