Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Alice Meynell | In her introduction AM
faults Gray
's Elegy, which she calls so near to the work of genius as to be most directly, closely, and immediately rebuked by genius. Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House. 138 |
Textual Features | Mary Masters | |
Textual Production | Judith Cowper Madan | This is apparently a revised and expanded version of the text from early 1721 which Ashley Cowper
copied in 1747 into The Family Miscellany. This first printing adds an extra forty lines, and several... |
Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | Though CM
's work later became synonymous with radical history, at its first appearance moderate Whigs likeThomas Gray
and Horace Walpole
thought it the most sensible, unaffected, and best history of England that we... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Jacson | |
Education | Zora Neale Hurston | She also worked at the beginnings of her education. When she happened upon Milton
's Paradise Lost she devoured it, and she learned Gray
's Elegy in a Country Churchyard by heart in the course... |
Textual Features | Jane Harvey | JH
's preface discusses the moral and artistic duties of the writer; she assumes that this person is male until she reaches the diffidence and timidity which in the bosom of a female writer is... |
Textual Production | Thomas Hardy | This time the title comes from Thomas Gray
. Sir Leslie Stephen
was responsible for the acceptance of this novel, which is remarkable for its independent-minded, property-owning heroine. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Gilding | Edward Pitcher
describes these poems, the last identified from her pen, printed and apparently written soon after childbirth, as gloomy in tone. Pitcher, Edward W. Woman’s Wit. Edwin Mellen Press. 311 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Francis | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Fanshawe | The poems by CF
include an Elegy on the Abrogation of the Birthnight Ball (her lament, in the person of an elderly beau, for the passing of the old-fashioned minuet: an orgy of grandiose parody... |
Textual Features | Catherine Fanshawe | One of the poems, a delightful Ode which imitates or parodies several well-known passages in various works by Gray
, was written not by CF
but by her friend Mary Berry
, some time before... |
Textual Features | Harriet Downing | The poem begins by confronting those surly cynics who say women are incapable of true friendship. Downing, Harriet. Mary; or, Female Friendship. James Harper. 1 |
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