Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
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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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | |
| 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 | 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 | Anna Brownell Jameson | |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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: |
| 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... |
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