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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Akhmatova | Anna was with Valeriya Tyulpanova
, a neighbour and a life-long friend; Nikolay was with his brother Dmitry. Nikolay fell madly in love with the young poetess, but she apparently did not share his romantic... |
Textual Production | Sylvia Beach | Though the essays were solicited and overseen by Joyce
, SB
did much of the editorial work and designed the cover. Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace. 179 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Samuel Beckett | The publisher's blurb, talking about a new independent spirit at work and humour, the last weapon against despair, was remarkably percipient. Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press. 13 |
Textual Features | Gertrude Bell | Hafiz, who mixed orthodox Islam with Sufism, is considered heretical for his ideas about God's nature and for his celebration of drinking alcohol as a religious practice. GB
was especially impressed by his love poetry... |
Occupation | Giovanni Boccaccio | Like Dante
before him, GB
held various public offices in Florence and was sent to other cities on diplomatic business. “The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. |
Occupation | Giovanni Boccaccio | GB
's writings began with Filocolo, a retelling of the traditional Floris and Blanchefleur love-story written between 1338 and 1400. Other narratives were Ameto, a pastoral-allegorical novel, Teseida (which contains the story re-used... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eavan Boland | Here she retains her focus on history and on women's lives. The relation between the two is paradoxical. Mise Eire (meaning I am Ireland) McEvoy, Anne. Conversation about Eavan Boland with Isobel Grundy. Boland, Eavan. Outside History. Norton. 78-9 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christine Brooke-Rose | This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen
of a great German contemporary of Austen:... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Byron | Reflections on her own life are intertwined throughout CB
's journey, as she writes on her childhood experience of Catholicism, and her roles as mother, wife, lover, and Irish woman writer. Byron, Catherine. Out of Step. Loxwood Stoneleigh. passim |
Textual Features | Mary Cholmondeley | MC
details the various manuscripts left by Hester: a journal describing everything she read, a journal about bee-keeping, and a notebook containing brief biographies of important figures, as well as notebooks of quotations, poetry, and... |
Textual Features | Caroline Clive | Much of this poem is Dante
sque in its style. Partridge, Eric Honeywood. “Mrs. Archer Clive”. Literary Sessions, Scholartis Press. 122 |
Education | Florence Dixie | FD
's first experience at a convent school (in France) lasted just one week. She later wrote, To her dying day Ijain will never forget that dreary time when she said good-bye to Rorie... |
Occupation | Gustave Doré | |
Dedications | T. S. Eliot | It was dedicated to Jean Verdenal
, who had recently been killed at the Dardanelles, with some lines from Dante
's Purgatorio. In addition to its title poem, The Love Song of J... |
Education | Margaret Gatty | Margaret and her sister were not sent to school, but were educated chiefly by her father. One important influence on Margaret was their bachelor uncle William Ryder
(who first got her started on drawing). Another... |