Pym, Barbara. “Editorial Materials”. A Very Private Eye, edited by Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym, Macmillan, 1984, p. various pages.
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Cultural formation | Barbara Pym | BP
's sister calls their childhood happy, unclouded. Pym, Barbara. “Editorial Materials”. A Very Private Eye, edited by Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym, Macmillan, 1984, p. various pages. 2 |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. M. Delafield | EMD
's mother, Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle (Bonham) de la Pasture
, was a popular and prolific novelist whose work was admired by writers as far-ranging as Ivy Compton-Burnett
and Evelyn Waugh
. She wrote to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Pym | Since Barbara's parents had performed in several musical operettas, and the whole family enjoyed Gilbert
and Sullivan
in particular, the children were comfortable with the form. Pym, Barbara. “Editorial Materials”. A Very Private Eye, edited by Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym, Macmillan, 1984, p. various pages. 2-3 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amy Levy | AL
acknowledged the influence on her poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, Goethe
, Heine
, Robert Browning
, Swinburne
(whose poem Félise she answered in Félise to Her Lover), and James Thomson
(the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Wendy Cope | WC
says she has been influenced by Gilbert
and Sullivan
(one of whose patter songs provides the template for At 70: Of fitness and vitality I am not the epitome) and by Philip Larkin |
Leisure and Society | Oscar Wilde | Gilbert
and Sullivan
's comic opera Patience opened at the Savoy Theatre
; it mocked OW
as the fleshly poet Bunthorne (in, coincidentally, the first English theatre production to use electric lighting on stage). Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Knopf, 1988. 134-5 Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press, 1991. 90, chronology |
Leisure and Society | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | After her schooling at St Leonard's
and before her brief time at Oxford
, Margaret Haig Thomas (later MHVR
) was a debutante for three years, during which time she was bored and suffocated by... |
Leisure and Society | Kate O'Brien | Having delighted in operatic music since her first introduction to Gilbert
and Sullivan
at an early age, she was admitted to listen to Maria Callas
singing in a rehearsal of operas by Gluck
and Verdi |
Occupation | Florence Marryat | A woman of varied accomplishments, Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Swan, Annie S. The Woman at Home. Warwick Magazine Company. 5 (1897): 191 |
Performance of text | Frances Cornford | When Frances Cornford
was a child, she and her cousin Gwen
were the two chief writers of the annual Darwin family Christmas play. This was written in Gilbert
and Sullivan
style, with complicated plots and... |
Reception | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | Notable among users of the verb to bowdlerize, deriving from the work of Harriet and Thomas, was W. S. Gilbert
in the Gilbert and Sullivan light opera Princess Ida, 1884, which spoofs the... |
Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Many poems here feature women answering back to canonical male voices: Liz Lochhead
to Donne
, Jenny Joseph
to W. S. Gilbert
, U. A. Fanthorpe
to Walt Whitman
, Wendy Cope
to A. E. Housman |
Textual Features | Wendy Cope | |
Textual Production | Evelyn Underhill | The book is an imitation of one that was very popular: The "Bab" Ballads, 1869, by Sir William Gilbert
(of Gilbert and Sullivan fame). “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
Textual Production | Ethel Smyth |