Rowden, Frances Arabella. A Biographical Sketch of the Most Distinguished Writers of Ancient and Modern Times.
1829, iv
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Textual Features | C. E. Plumptre | Bruno's conversion from Catholicism to Pantheism is described in a sexual analogy: Night after night he would steal out, moved by the same thoughts, penetrated by the same rapture . . . The more ardently... |
Textual Features | Frances Arabella Rowden | An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820) Rowden, Frances Arabella. A Biographical Sketch of the Most Distinguished Writers of Ancient and Modern Times. 1829, iv |
Textual Features | Margaret Legge | The story opens at an art school, with male students discussing female models. Bonyng, a fair, slim youth, is, unlike the other students, embarrassed by women. Among the models one is conventionally voluptuous, Legge, Margaret. The Price of Stephen Bonyng. Alston Rivers. 3 |
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 | Deborah Levy | The British Council
website on writers points out that despite its slangy style and up-to-the-minute references (contemporary, bathetic and very funny), this work has its structural roots in medieval poetic dialogues, in the... |
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 |
Textual Features | Seamus Heaney | The title poem, wrote a critic some years later, wrestled towards a vision of poetic transcendence in the person of James Joyce
, TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 4601 (7 June 1991): 28 |
Textual Features | Julia O'Faolain | This novel is set in a villa in Tuscany, which is known for having been the setting for a sixteenth-century (published) dialogue on love. At the present moment of history a comparable dialogue is... |
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... |
Textual Production | Marina Warner | MW
published her first novel, In a Dark Wood, exploring connections between a present-day London family and the Emperor's court in seventeenth-century China. The phrase in a dark wood (which has appealed to... |
Textual Production | Dorothy L. Sayers | DLS
published the second instalment of her verse translation (with her introduction) of Dante
's Divine Comedy: Cantica II: Purgatory. Gilbert, Colleen B. A Bibliography of the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers. Macmillan. 117 British Book News. British Council. (1955): 1189 |
Textual Production | Dorothy L. Sayers | The third section of DLS
's translation of Dante
's Divine Comedy—Cantica III: Paradise—was published posthumously; Barbara Reynolds
completed those parts that Sayers had not finished when she died. Gilbert, Colleen B. A Bibliography of the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers. Macmillan. 121 |
Textual Production | Fanny Aikin Kortright | She says that, not being personally known to Beecher Stowe, she has not asked leave for her dedication, but that Stowe
's work for the black slaves suggests she would favour a work written to... |
Textual Production | Dorothy L. Sayers | DLS
published Introductory Papers on Dante, which she followed in 13 December 1957 with Further Papers on Dante. British Book News. British Council. (1955): 765; (1957): 505 TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2759 (17 December 1954): 823; 2911 (13 December 1957): 762 |
Textual Production | Sally Purcell | Her further translations included many poems which were printed in her own volumes of verse, as well as selections from Charles of Orleans
and Gaspara Stampa
, Literature in the Vernacular (a rendering of Dante |
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