Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan, 1989.
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Education | Dora Russell | Her subjects included German and French, philosophy and literature, particularly such writers as Kant
, Heine
, Pascal
, Racine
, and Voltaire
. Among English authors, she admired George Meredith
(Modern Love))... |
Education | Anna Swanwick | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Commentators suggest some overlap between the siblings' interests: he too was a keen filmgoer, and his publications include studies of the horror film and of Jewish characters in Heine
. Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan, 1989. 4n7 Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams, 1991. 25 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth von Arnim | In Berlin, May von Arnim-Schlagenthin first encountered the works of Goethe
and also of Bettina von Arnim
. The latter was a literary and family forebear of her husband, a poet and an associate... |
Friends, Associates | Lucie Duff Gordon | Lucie enjoyed her stays in Boulogne, where she spent time with the fishermen. During her first visit there she met and became a friend of the German poet Heinrich Heine
. Ross, Janet, and Lucie Duff Gordon. “Memoir”. Letters from Egypt, Virago, 1983, pp. 1-17. 3 Duff Gordon, Lucie. “Preface and Introduction”. Letters from Egypt (1862-1869), edited by Gordon Waterfield, Enlarged Centenary edition, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969, p. xiii - 39. 14 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Gerard | EG
's fictional narrators are male; women are presented through their eyes or by an authorial voice. These stories are typical magazine material: something unusual is presented with a twist, often humorous. The Attaman: A... |
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... |
Literary responses | Adelaide Procter | The Athenæum review of the second series, again by H. F. Chorley
pronounced AP
a real artist and this second instalment of poems to include some that must and will take rank among the most... |
Literary responses | George Sand | Response was poor. The audience hissed and booed, and the play was pulled after only seven performances. The poet Heinrich Heine
gave it a bad review. Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976. 204-5 |
Publishing | Amy Levy | The Cambridge Review published AL
's translation of a poem by Heine
. Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000. 278 |
Textual Features | A. E. Housman | Housman named the influences on his poetry as non-contemporary texts: the border ballads, Shakespeare
's songs, and Heine
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Features | Amy Levy | Another poem, on the death of a commonplace person presumed male, says he will never again ask for bread, get a stone instead, / Never pretend that the stone is bread. qtd. in Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000. 102-3 |
Textual Features | Mathilde Blind | MB
depicts Byron with her customary vigour and imaginative engagement: her introduction to the poetry volume is a blend of analysis and praise. She places him politically, as having in his veins an ancestral witches'... |
Textual Features | Toru Dutt | |
Textual Production | Karen Gershon | In 1965 KG
published her translation from the German of Ludwig Marcuse
, Obscene: The History of an Indignation, which had appeared in German in 1962. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Like so many of KG
's endeavours, this... |
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