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Intertextuality and Influence | Joanna Cannan | Not only class, but class and national ideology is under the microscope here. The idea of Englishness is much appealed to. Price admonishes Lisa (who prattles freely of art and Aristotle
and Baudelaire
, though... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Muriel Spark | The protagonist is of this light-heartedly surrealist and paradoxically serious tale is Samuel Cramer, the main character of a Charles Baudelaire
story,, now unnaturalistically aged and running a rooming-house in Africa. He has written a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edna St Vincent Millay | From April to June 1932 Millay and Dillon were in Paris together. Dillon had just, in his turn, won the Pulitzer Prize, and had a Guggenheim fellowship to support him, modestly, for the sake of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | Following this initial encounter, the two formerly isolated girls bonded over shared interests in Scott
, Baudelaire
, Dumas
, Rostand
's Cyrano de Bergerac, and their own pedigrees. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 23 Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo. 72-3 Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton. 27 |
Education | Anna Akhmatova | At the age of ten Anna started attending school in Tsarskoe Selo, but fell ill a few months later and had to withdraw. She learnt French at home and by the age of thirteen... |
Education | Nina Bawden | NB
wanted to leave school to be a war correspondent, but a strong-minded aunt persuaded her to try for Somerville College, Oxford. In the general paper of the entrance exam, she wrote on the future... |
Education | Nina Hamnett | She already felt the terrible misery of being so young and ignorant. Hamnett, Nina. Laughing Torso. Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc. 3 |
Education | Michèle Roberts | As a child, says MR
, she lived much of the time in my imagination and in books. The bookcase her mother had had as a student, the local public library, and the local church... |
Cultural formation | Edith Sitwell | She had been interested in Catholicism for many years, and had allied her thinking with neo-Thomism, a reaching back to medieval thought which saw material world as a reflection of the immaterial reality of God... |
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