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Residence | Ouida | Ouida
, with her mother
, moved from her previous London home to a main-floor suite at the city's fashionable Langham Hotel
, where she entertained in a salon style which was probably inspired by George Sand
. Jordan, Jane. “Ouida: The Enigma of a Literary Identity”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 57 , No. 1, pp. 75-105. 78-9 |
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
,... |
Textual Production | Winsome Pinnock | For radio WP
wrote a play called Her Father's Daughter, 1998, and adapted the short story Let Them Call It Jazz by Jean Rhys
(dramatization 1997), the novel Indiana by George Sand
(1832; BBC Radio Four |
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. 197 |
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 |
Textual Features | Mary Seacole | Her passing remarks on gender are also of interest. Her descriptions of notables who came through Cruces in Panama include an account of opera singer Catherine Hayes
, and a vivid portrait of dancer and... |
Education | Edith J. Simcox | Soundly educated, EJS
acquired a good knowledge of French and German at school, where she considered herself outrageously defiant and disobedient. McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press. 6 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Harriet Beecher Stowe | HBS
used her earlier travels in Europe as material for a travel guide for Americans. She had met Germaine de Staël
and Elizabeth Gaskell
while in Europe, and had voraciously read everything by George Sand |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Taylor | MT
's father, Joshua Taylor
, came from a wool-trading family based in the West Riding of Yorkshire; he often travelled to the Continent on business and was fluent in French and Italian. He... |
Violence | Flora Tristan | Chazal shot her from behind in the left side at point-blank range. After shooting her, he gave the pistol to a witness and surrendered. FT
was carried back to her apartment and surgeons called. Although... |
Reception | Flora Tristan | Some personal comments in the book had lasting repercussions. In her opening chapter, FT
criticizes French writer George Sand
for writing under a male pseudonym and for softening her social critique of women's position by... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Trollope | FT
's political conservatism affected her judgements of literature as well as politics. She forcefully expresses her dislike for republicanism, denounces freedom of the press as the most awful engine that Providence has permitted the... |
Friends, Associates | Susan Tweedsmuir | When ST
's parents and Leslie Stephen
tried to nurture a childhood friendship between Susan, Vanessa
(later Bell), and Virginia
(later Woolf), the relationship never took root. As an adult, however (having admired Woolf's early... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Tweedsmuir | The opening proper of this volume invokes with some trepidation George Sand
's statement that there is nothing more tedious than the dregs of an old régime. Tweedsmuir, Susan. A Winter Bouquet. G. Duckworth. 20 |
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