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Friends, Associates | Gertrude Stein | Over the years, the old crowd had begun to disperse and the Saturday evening salons were frequented more by writers and less by artists. Although GS
had published only a few volumes and had often... |
Friends, Associates | Natalie Clifford Barney | By the 1920s the salon attracted an impressive array of prominent writers, artists, and intellectuals, including Paul Valéry
, Colette
, Jean Cocteau
, Gabriele D'Annunzio
, Rabindranath Tagore
, Ernest Hemingway
, F. Scott |
Friends, Associates | Sylvia Beach | Among the first subscribers were Thérèse Bertrand (later Fontaine)
, André Gide
, Dorothy
and Ezra Pound
, and Gertrude Stein
. Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace. 22, 26-7 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ali Smith | Reviewer Sophie Ratcliffe
observed an overarching tree motif in the volume, with May featuring a character who falls in love with a tree and The Shortlist Season seeing a visitor to an art gallery being... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Willa Cather | This novel poses a challenge both to contemporary and to later conventions of gender morality—a fact reflected in the tendency of commentators to liken it to Flaubert
's Madame Bovary, Cather, Willa. A Lost Lady. Virago. cover |
Literary responses | Aldous Huxley | This book laid the foundation for AH
's reputation for cynicism and wit. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 356-7 Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. 278 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | Aldous Huxley | Though AH
had a sturdy relationship with his book publisher—he renewed his three-year contract with Chatto and Windus
in 1941 for the seventh time—his film work during the war years was freelance. In 1939, before... |
Reception | Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness was also prosecuted for obscenity in the United States. There RH
received support from writers including Ernest Hemingway
, F. Scott Fitzgerald
, Sinclair Lewis
, Ellen Glasgow
, Edna St Vincent Millay |
Textual Features | Helen Dunmore | Her allusions often require some decoding (in The marshalling yard it is women, not cows, who board the cattle trucks). Dunmore, Helen. Short Days, Long Nights. Bloodaxe Books. 65 |
Textual Production | Helen Dunmore | HD
's many other writings include reviews (of both poetry and fiction), introductions (to the poems of Emily Brontë
, the stories of D. H. Lawrence
and F. Scott Fitzgerald
, and a study of... |
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