Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Knopf.
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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. 134-5 Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press. 90, chronology |
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 | |
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, p. various pages. 2 |
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, p. various pages. 2-3 |
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 |
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... |
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... |
Textual Production | Harriett Jay | By 10 November 1898 they had colllaborated on an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas
's play Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr as the romantic comedy Two Little Maids from School (its title adapted from a song in... |
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 |
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... |
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... |
Textual Features | Wendy Cope | |
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 |
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