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Cultural formation | Mary Butts | |
Education | Evelyn Underhill | She did not take advantage of her opportunity to study theology while at the Anglican foundation of King's, but became interested in religion through reading philsophy and poetry from her father's library. Plotinus
, St Augustine |
Education | Adrienne Rich | The girls' father also had a strong influence on their education, as he was determined that Adrienne would be a poet and Cynthia would be a novelist. The girls had the run of the family... |
Education | Storm Jameson | While at Leeds University, SJ
served as Secretary of the Women's Representative Council
of the Student Union, met her future husband Charles Douglas Clarke
(also a student), and wrote an undergraduate thesis on Blake
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Butts | His forebears had strong links with the artistic world. While he himself was a friend of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, Mary's great-grandfather, Captain Thomas Butts
, had been a patron of William Blake |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Horovitz | They had met in 1960 when Frances joined a group of Blake
admirers involved with Michael's radical magazine, New Departures, which he had founded in 1959 and which he published and edited. New Departures |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Ridler | Anne Bradby (later AR
) was still at school when she first met Charles Williams
, the poet, Christian apologist, novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a friend of her headmistress, and came to lecture... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Smith | William Hayley
helped CS
publish her first book. Her biographer Loraine Fletcher thinks she faked a sudden attack of illness, in the wake of her husband's imprisonment and release, in order to drop in at... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Caroline Lamb | LCL
was for most of her adult life a good friend of Sydney Morgan
, to whom she confided many stories of her childhood and youth, which Morgan preserved in her diaries. She later helped... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | Her narratives of these emotional involvements lead her into analysis of the different effects of love on the two sexes. This analysis is founded on two women writers (identifiable although she does not name them)... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Literary admirers of the hymns included Hannah More
, Anna Seward
, and Elizabeth Carter
, who found some passages amazingly sublime. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 193 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sophia King | The contents are part new, part reprinted. SK
notes this in Remarks of the Author, which admits the claims of good taste but declares that fantastic imagination too has its place. She writes in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Kathleen Raine | For KR
, poetic tradition was that of the major romantic poets, headed by Blake
and followed by Coleridge
, Yeats
, and Edwin Muir
. She was at Girton
when a generation of Cambridge... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Tynan | KT
stays with Irish mythology in The Fairy Babe, about a mother whose baby has been replaced by fairies with a changeling child. She figures Ireland in the body of the generous Kathleen who... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Florence Farr | A series of reviews by others precedes Farr's own account of her musical recitations. These experiments in verse performance began as illustrations of Yeats's theories of the music and rhythm of spoken verse, but Farr... |