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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | John Oliver Hobbes | Before this she had worshipped, like her parents, at the City Temple
, a leading Nonconformist church. Swan, Annie S. The Letters of Annie S. Swan. Editor Nicoll, Mildred Robertson, Hodder and Stoughton. 36 Swan, Annie S. My Life. Ivor Nicholson and Watson. 99 |
Education | Colette | Colette wrote later of the way that a free and solitary childhood and adolescence, with plenty of opportunity to develop self-awareness and without any pressure to self-expression, had shaped her mind before the compulsion to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Robert Lee Wolff
argues that this is one of MEB
's very best Wilkie Collins
-style investigations. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 243 |
Literary responses | Virginia Woolf | Erich Auerbach
chose a passage from early in To the Lighthouse, which he calls The Brown Stocking, to close his influential work Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, 1946 (which... |
Publishing | Ethel Savi | John Lane
asked her to meet his reader, M. P. (Mary Patricia) Willcocks
(herself the author of some very clever novels), who suggested that ES
should rewrite her manuscript. Savi, Ethel. My Own Story. Hutchinson. 164 M. P. Willcocks was... |
Textual Production | Tillie Olsen | By the time she entered high school she was keeping a journal in assorted and undated notebooks containing poems, bits of stories, drafts of letters, and reflections. Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press. 37 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Helen Waddell | Her letters can be unexpected: don't be too hard on Rabelais
. Remember that I have read enormously in fifteenth-century literature, and it is very foulspoken. . . . I think Rabelais was one of... |