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Friends, Associates | Margaret Fuller | Her travels in England introduced her to Mary Howitt
and Thomas Carlyle
, and she visited her old acquaintance Harriet Martineau
. In Paris she had significant meetings with George Sand
and the Polish poet... |
Friends, Associates | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
knew personally and corresponded with many of the Victorian intelligentsia. In addition to her Langham Place associates already mentioned, her literary friends and acquaintances included Matilda Hays
, Harriet Martineau
, Anthony Trollope
,... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | This friendship was for EBB
the major event of this winter; she found the fact that Fuller had known George Sand
a strong inducement to visit Paris. Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton. 239-40 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michèle Roberts | The title story uses mud or muddy almost thirty times. MR
writes, as always, as a feminist; these stories occupy a borderline between the self-making of women and their appropriation into patriarchal stories. She enjoys... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michèle Roberts | The French side of MR
's heritage includes influence from George Sand
and Colette
. Newman, Jenny. “Michèle Roberts”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Arnold, pp. 119-34. 119 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Adelaide Kemble | Bessie and her more assertive friend Ursula Hamilton are challenged by men in their social circle about the alleged inferiority of women, as proved by their failure to produce serious artistic work. Bessie thinks of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isa Blagden | To George Sand
: On Her Interview with Elizabeth Barrett Browning contrasts the two poets and their work. IB
represents Barrett Browning as a paragon of stainless femininity, Sand as a fettered maniac with a... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Deborah Levy | This book has four sections, each titled from a reason for writing, Political Purpose, Historical Impulse, Sheer Egoism, and Aesthetic Enthusiasm. The first and last describe a period of near-breakdown that... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isak Dinesen | Many of ID
's favourite motifs appear here fully formed: cross-dressing, siblings of opposite sexes who seem like aspects of each other, royal personages (Danish) corrupted by patriarchy, young women threatened by misogynistic patriarchy, other... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Matilda Hays | She dedicated it to an unnamed woman: Her, whose love has for years endeared life and filled it with Belief in the true and the beautiful. Merrill, Lisa. When Romeo Was a Woman. University of Michigan Press. 157 |
Intertextuality and Influence | George Douglas | People in Cherry Garth think Denis strange and unladylike; Celia dissembles her jealousy, but does not forgive; Denis's only sympathiser is the Jewish farmer Octave Von Donop, a close friend of Tom's and another avowed... |
Intertextuality and Influence | John Oliver Hobbes | Pearl Richards (later JOH
) read widely as a child and adolescent, and her parents' liberal views (and considerable fortune) meant that she could pursue her tastes in both the lending libraries and the less... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Waters argues that MEB
ought not to be condemned for clichés that she herself helped to establish. Rather we should examine them and the genre of the detective or sensation novel as an index of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | John Oliver Hobbes | JOH
's speeches and interviews regularly deal with literature. In an interview with William Archer
, she admits to admiring Arthur Wing Pinero
's characterisation of women, while noting how little individualised are some of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Ishmael is set in Brittany and Paris, mainly between 1850 and 1867, during the reign of Louis Napoleon
. The title character is the son of a Breton aristocrat, despised by his father on... |
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