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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Material Conditions of Writing | Dorothy Richardson | She was encouraged to write this book by J. D. Beresford
and his wife Beatrice
, by H. G. Wells
, and by the editors of the Saturday Review. The Beresfords introduced her to... |
Literary responses | Dorothy Richardson | H. G. Wells
, reviewing this work, wrote that DR
had probably carried impressionism in fiction to its furthest limit. He considered that her percepts never become concepts, and that her heroine is not a... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy Richardson | In The Tunnel Miriam is a young woman of twenty-one beginning her new life in London. Here and in DR
's succeeding novels, the city itself almost becomes a character. Just as Richardson did... |
Textual Features | Dorothy Richardson | This companion novel to The Tunnel presents the relations of Miriam, a young woman in her early twenties, with the other occupants of her Bloomsbury boarding-house. Her friendship with Hypo G. Wilson, the character based... |
Literary Setting | Dorothy Richardson | Hypo Wilson's seaside home, modelled after a house that H. G. Wells
had in Kent, is another of the novel's settings. Here, Miriam's writer friend Hypo is portrayed in the present as she views... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Dorothy Richardson | DR
's writing of this text was impeded by several factors: her periodical publications, which were an economic necessity; her commitment to proofread H. G. Wells
's collected works (for a fee of £20 for... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy Richardson | This segment of Pilgrimage has Miriam, now twenty-eight, sharing a Bloomsbury flat with Selina Holland, a demanding spinster who disapproves of the younger woman's attachments to men. At this point, Miriam's relationship with writer Hypo... |
Publishing | Dorothy Richardson | H. G. Wells
offered to find her another publisher than Duckworth
, as he felt she could do better in terms of remuneration and publicity with someone else. Finally, after the manuscript was refused by... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Dorothy Richardson | She found it difficult to write this novel because of the publishing difficulties over Oberland and the death of H. G. Wells
's wife Amy Catherine, Jane
(a longtime friend and the model for one... |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Richardson | Shortly moving back to London, DR
contacted an old school friend, Amy Catherine Robbins
(called Jane by her husband, H. G. Wells
), and began socialising with the couple at their home in Worcester... |
Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | The volume contains a selection of Richardson's approximately 1,800 surviving letters, dated from 1901. It includes her personal and professional letters to such correspondents as Bryher
, H. D.
, Sylvia Beach
, Amy Catherine (Jane) |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Robins | ER
's publisher, Hutchinson
, blamed this book's poor sales (only 300 copies) on the author's insistence on maintaining her anonymity. John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge. 214 |
Friends, Associates | Berta Ruck | BR
developed a close personal friendship with the writer E. Nesbit
(mother of her art-student friend Iris Bland
). They vacationed together at Grez-sur-Marne in France, and Nesbit stayed for a week with Ruck's... |
Education | Dora Russell | |
politics | Dora Russell | By 1915-1916 she identified as a pacifist sympathizer, Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 1: 51 |
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