Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace, 1959.
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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, 1959. 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, 2000. 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, 1996. 356-7 Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1987. 278 qtd. in 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, 1991. 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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