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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Ann Quin | Yet at this time books discovered in the public library taught her the possibilities in writing: Greek and Elizabethan dramatists. |
Education | Rumer Godden | RG
's determination to become a writer fuelled a continued self-education. Books were hard to come by in India, yet she managed to find and devour recent publications: Edith Sitwell
's Troy Park and Façade... |
Education | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | She read voraciously, preferring writers with the geographical rootedness which she herself lacked: George Eliot
, Thomas Hardy
, Charles Dickens
, and from beyond the English tradition Marcel Proust
, James Joyce
, Henry James |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Quin | In her short autobiographical article Leaving School—XI, AQ
mentions having been writing stories since the age of seven to entertain myself. Quin, Ann. “Leaving School—XI”. London Magazine, Vol. new series 6 , July 1966, pp. 63-8. 64 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Pam Gems | The play's development was influenced by another project PG
was working on at the time, a translation of Uncle Vanya. Her own play, she explains, was much influenced by Chekhov
, I had tried... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Romer Wilson | The play traces a bourgeois family's fall from riches to rags as a result of the levelling down of classes in the Russian Revolution. The action begins in 1912 and runs until 1921, the year... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edna O'Brien | EOB
's imaginative development was nourished by her wide reading, and consideration of a number of writers helped to shape her own style and vision. She has said in (April 2002) that one learns the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Taylor | As a child Betty Coles (later ET
) wrote plays (with very short scenes each demanding a new and elaborate setting) and stories. She said she always wanted to be a novelist. qtd. in Leclercq, Florence. Elizabeth Taylor. Twayne, 1985. 2 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Teresa Deevy | TD
began writing as a child, producing stories about family doings for her mother and sisters. During her last years at school, from 1911, the school magazine, St Ursula's Annual, featured her stories. Living... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Desai | AD
's work weaves together a wide range of cultural and literary references: the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgîtâ, as well as such European authors as E. M. Forster
, T. S. Eliot
, Dickinson |
Intertextuality and Influence | Katherine Mansfield | This particular story, however, was adapted without acknowledgment from one by Chekhov
. It appears that KM
's conscience was not clear about this unmentioned debt. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Antonia Fraser | The setting of this novel is a theatre festival at the grand country home of a former stage star, Christabel Cartwright; Chekhov
's The Seagull, which is to be performed, provides a hidden parallel... |
Intertextuality and Influence | George Bernard Shaw | GBS
published Heartbreak House (with two other plays), a Chekhov
ian drama about the corruption of British society on the eve of the First World War. Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols. Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982. |
Leisure and Society | Kate Parry Frye | When in London KPF
enjoyed going to the theatre, often with John Robert Collins
. She loved Votes for Women! by Elizabeth Robins
in April 1907, thought Ibsen
's A Doll's House splendid in March... |
Leisure and Society | Jennifer Johnston | Although JJ
says she is always reading contemporary young men and women writers coming out of Ireland today, Moloney, Caitriona et al. Irish Women Writers Speak Out: Voices From the Field. Syracuse University Press, 2003. 67 |