Hobbes, John Oliver. “Dante and Botticelli”. Saint George, Vol.
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Author summary | Dorothy L. Sayers | DLS
is best-known as a pre-second-world-war detective novelist, particularly as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. But the financial success she enjoyed from these novels permitted her to turn to other genres... |
Performance of text | John Oliver Hobbes | JOH
delivered a lecture entitled Dante
and Botticelli before the RuskinSociety
of Birmingham. Hobbes, John Oliver. “Dante and Botticelli”. Saint George, Vol. 5 , No. 17, pp. 3-17. 3 |
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... |
Occupation | Gustave Doré | |
Occupation | Frances Trollope | Her next idea was an exhibition of Dante
's Infernal Regions. Hervieu
painted the scenes, and the museum's own wax manipulator, Hiram Powers
, created the figures. Hiram Powers
later became a celebrated sculptor... |
names | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | JFLW
never used her first name, except for inconsequential correspondence. She was probably christened Frances (as was an elder sister who died) and later italianized it. She also developed a rich etymology for her surname... |
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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 |
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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
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