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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Nadine Gordimer | She aligned her stories with the difficult truth-telling of Chekhov
. |
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... |
Performance of text | Pam Gems | PG
's adaptation of Chekhov
's Uncle Vanya was first performed by the Hampstead Theatre Club
. Wandor, Michelene, editor. Plays by Women: Volume Three. Methuen. 49 Aston, Elaine. “Pam Gems: Body Politics and Biography”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, pp. 157-73. 171 “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 60473 (13 November 1979): 14 |
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... |
Textual Production | Constance Garnett | CG
translated the major works of Chekhov
, producing in many cases the earliest English versions of them. Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland. |
Author summary | Constance Garnett | |
Literary responses | Mavis Gallant | On the subject of Gallant's first The New Yorker story, Madeline's Birthday, Mordecai Richler
—signing his name as Mordy—wrote to Douglas M. Gibson
to say i saw mavis's story in the new yorker. i'm... |
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... |
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... |
Textual Production | Maureen Duffy | Her title, and her epigraph, come from Chekhov
's The Cherry Orchard, and Moscow functions for the English characters in the novel as an impossible utopia. In the USA the novel was titled All... |
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 | 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... |
Literary responses | Lettice Cooper | The Persephone reprint of 2004 provided a recuperation opportunity for reviewers. The Guardian reviewer saw the book as a forerunner of Anita Brookner
, and wrote that although it is clear where Cooper's sympathies lie... |
Textual Production | Anita Brookner | AB
published a new novel, The Bay of Angels, whose dust-jacket features A. N. Wilson
likening Brookner to Chekhov
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Textual Features | Enid Bagnold | Eccentric Mrs St Maugham (owner of the garden on cold and grudging chalk soil, whose poor growing qualities are the play's central symbol) takes on Miss Madrigal as governess to her grand-daughter, Laurel, precisely because... |
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