Charles Baudelaire

Pursuing her established interest in the Black presence in Europe, MS here relates the story of Duval , mistress of the French poet Charles Baudelaire , the Black Venus of his poetry, who was fictionalised...

These essays thus represent a radical shift in thinking. They are much concerned with reputation. That on Machiavelli observes that he is a man uniquely misunderstood, whose reputation is uniquely skewed. Eliot argues that Baudelaire

Wolff sees this novel as working out the Zola theory of hereditary destiny. However, although Ishmael vows to avenge his wrongs, when he discovers Pâquerette and Valnois separately years after their elopement he forgoes...

Black Venus re-interprets actual women of history whose public image has been demonized, like Lizzie Borden the alleged of murderess and Jeanne Duval (a mixed-race woman who suffered from syphilis, mistress and muse of Charles Baudelaire

In summer 1934 ESVM 's former lover George Dillon began translating Charles Baudelaire . The work went well at first but a year later he was bogged down. Millay offered comment and an introduction; she...

ET published The Island of Desire, her third novel, with a challenging epigraph from Baudelaire 's Un voyage à Cythère in which the speaker confronts himself hanging from a gibbet.

Ouida published a novel entitled Folle-Farine: the edition of 1883 used for the Victorian Women Writers Project quotes Baudelaire on its title-page.

HW provided an introduction for William Forbes Marshall 's Ballads and Verses from Tyrone, published by the Talbot Press of Dublin in 1929, and an Appreciation for George Saintsbury 's Shakespeare, 1934. Her...

She later mentioned two youthful pieces on social issues involving literature: one on the potential damage done by a cheap popular press, Baudelaire 's view of l'infâmie de l'imprimerie, and the other on the...

MR had another play, Child Lover, premiered at the Tramway Theatre in Glasgow in 1993. The television adaptation of her story Ma Semblable Ma Soeur (titled from Baudelaire , with her script), aired on...

AB published an ambitious art-critical work: The Genius of the Future: Studies in French Art Criticism: Diderot , Stendhal , Baudelaire , Zola , The BrothersGoncourt , Huysmans.

A reprint in the Virago Modern Classics series, 1990, carries BB 's new afterword. The title-page quotes Rosalind in Shakespeare 's As You Like It: men have died from time to time and worms...

The title is a phrase from a poem by Baudelaire ; it says that one ought to take a few flowers to the dead, who are desolate. The play was published in Bagpipe Muzak.

Stories she designed for particular sets of readers around this time, especially those for the Fabian New Age, show the edge of professionalism. She had already written bowdlerised versions of Baudelaire and Wilde ...

She had completed the narrative title poem (whose title comes from Baudelaire ) the previous year. The Fanfarlo is an exotic lover or muse or alter ego to Baudelaire's character Samuel Cramer. The conception fed...