Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Heinemann New Windmill Series, 1995.
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Education | Maya Angelou | Marguerite Johnson had already become a voracious reader, both of Black writers and of canonical dead white males. Shakespeare
, she wrote later, was my first white love. Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Heinemann New Windmill Series, 1995. 12 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sir J. M. Barrie | Without children of his own, Barrie had a habit of monopolising the children of friends, for whom he invented elaborate games. Among children so situated were Bevil Quiller-Couch
(who was later the fiancé of the... |
Friends, Associates | Rosamund Marriott Watson | She forged friendships with other women writers, including Mona Caird
, E. Nesbit
, Mathilde Blind
, Amy Levy
, and Alice Meynell
. She was also a friend of William Sharp
, Austin Dobson |
Literary responses | Maria Riddell | W. E. Henley
called this analysis the best thing written of him by a contemporary critic. qtd. in Ross, John Dawson. Who’s Who in Burns. E. Mackay, 1927. 264 Brown, Hilton. There Was a Lad. An Essay on Robert Burns. Hamish Hamilton, 1949. 41 |
Literary responses | E. Nesbit | W. E. Henley
had warned EN
a propos Via Amoris, before this volume appeared, that she ought not to approach the writing of poetry in the market-dominated way that was all right for other... |
Publishing | Alice Meynell | Poet and editor W. E. Henley
, printing the title essay in the Scots Observer, called it one of the best things it has so far been my privilege to print. qtd. in “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 98 |
Textual Production | Nina Bawden | NB
returned to a surname she had used in Familiar Passions for the protagonist of a new novel, Ruffian on the Stair: the almost-centenarian Samuel Mudd. The title (quoted from a poem by W. E. Henley |
Textual Production | Lucy Walford | She contributed a fortnightly budget of literary news Walford, Lucy. Recollections of a Scottish Novelist. Williams and Norgate, 1910, xi, 317 pp. 265 |
Textual Production | Rose Allatini | Her title deliberately misquotes from W. E. Henley
's I was a king in Babylon / And you were a Christian slave. Her dedicatees were both occultists and medical practitioners who ran a kind of... |
Textual Production | Laurence Alma-Tadema | Given the coincidence of names in LAT
's family, it is hardly surprising that misattributions should have occurred. The British Library Catalogue adds the name of her stepmother, presumably in error, to its listings of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosamund Marriott Watson | In addition to reviews, RMW
contributed sixteen signed poems, including one entitled The Lost Leader, which was published one week after his death in tribute to the poet William Ernest Henley
who had died... |
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