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under Joseph Hume
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Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Webster | AW
's maternal grandfather, Joseph Hume
, was a translator of Dante
, and a friend of Charles Lamb
, William Hazlitt
, and William Godwin
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Joseph Hume |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christina Rossetti | At first a private tutor of Italian, Gabriele gained some prestige but no direct financial advantage when he was appointed Professor of Italian at King's College
(founded in August 1829). Rossetti, Christina. “Memoir; Notes”. The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, edited by William Michael Rossetti, Norwood, pp. xlv - lxxi; 459. xlv-xlvi |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christina Rossetti | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Trollope | Thomas Adolphus writes in his autobiography of his and his siblings' positive experiences with their mother: [a]ll our happiest hours were spent with her; and to any one of us a tête-à-tête with her was... |
Friends, Associates | Petrarch | At the age of eight Petrarch saw Dante
for the first and only time. One of the most important friendships of his life was that with Boccaccio
. “The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent. under Dante “The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent. |
Friends, Associates | Vernon Lee | Back in Italy after the end of the First World War, VL
continued to read widely. She returned to Dante
, Shakespeare
, and Goethe
. She introduced herself to newer writings on philosophy, science... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | The most highly-regarded piece in this collection is Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets (whose title means that it has as many poems as a sonnet has of lines). CR
's preface to this sequence... |
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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Evelyn Underhill | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Jolley | This satirical and often surreal novel is set at a summer school designed simultaneously to improve the figure and the mind through diet and creative writing: the Better Body Through the Arts Course. The story... |
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 | Eleanor Anne Porden | |
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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothy Richardson | Gloria Fromm
links The Tunnel with Dante
's Divine Comedy, because it is divided into thirty-three chapters (the number of Dante's cantos), and contains similar repeated phrases, such as the inner circle,the outer... |
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