Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
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Fictionalization | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | EKM
's representation by her husband's second wife as a pathetic victim, idealistic but foolish and untalented, paved the way for Virginia Woolf
's portrait. Woolf seized on details given by Anne Mathews: the best... |
Literary responses | Alice Meynell | Virginia Woolf
was angered by AM
's opinion that Jane Austen
was a frump (and was even angrier that Meynell advised reading Sterne
's Tristram Shandy in an expurgated edition). Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press. 2: 503 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Willa Muir | WM
heads her essay with a quotation from Laurence Sterne
's Tristram Shandy: Methinks, brother, replied my father, you might, at least, know so much as the right end of a woman from the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances O'Neill | The volume includes poems of natural description, of meditation, and of political comment. FON
expresses delight at the election victory on 9 August 1802 (in John Wilkes's old constituency of Middlesex) of Sir Francis Burdett |
Education | Maria Riddell | The future MR
was in all probability privately educated. At sixteen she wrote a poem to commemorate the pleasure of reading with a friend the works of Milton
, Pope
, Spenser
, Shakespeare
... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Riddell | Another juvenile poem, the Inscription Written on an Hermitage in one of the Islands of the West-Indies, composed at sixteen, is a celebration of female friendship. In the hermitage the author and her friend... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Haswell Rowson | Here SHR
makes a preface out of her unwillingness to write a preface: this concept is Sterne
an, and so is the abrupt opening. I can't for my life see the necessity of it, said... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Haswell Rowson | The Inquisitor is a character, again Sterne
an, who wanders about doing good. He has a wife and two daughters. His wish to be invisible is made when he is asked for money by someone... |
Literary responses | Susanna Haswell Rowson | The Critical Review situated this work in reference to two others: Sterne
's Sentimental Journey and Elizabeth Bonhote
's The Rambles of Mr. Frankly. (It apparently did not remember Eliza Haywood
's The Invisible... |
Literary responses | Sarah Scott | Later this year the black Londoner Ignatius Sancho
singled out Laurence Sterne
and the humane author of Sir George Ellison as the only writers to have drawn a tear in favour of my miserable black... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Smith | A preface (in the first volume) quotes the words of Samuel Johnson
(with apology for applying them to so trifling a matter as novel-writing) about working at his dictionary amid grief and illness, feeling cut... |
Textual Features | Stevie Smith | This highly unusual novel takes the form of a disconnected journal by a publisher's secretary named Pompey, an alienated but irrepressible member of the disregarded female work-force, who is clearly an alter-ego for SS
... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mariana Starke | Here MS
found the mixture that would characterise all her travel writing: vivid first-hand narrative and evocation, and reliable well-set-out information about practical matters like mileages and information about the state of roads and inns... |
Textual Features | Christina Stead | Here CS
turns a satiric eye on expatriates in Switzerland in the harsh years that followed the second world war. Her characters have mostly come through the war with money which they wish to protect... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Strutt | The paintings he exhibited at the Royal Academy
were mostly landscapes; it may not be fanciful to see the influence of his marriage in the two titles he showed (for the first time) in 1819:... |
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