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Travel | Lucie Duff Gordon | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | George Eliot | For the Westminster and elsewhere GE
wrote several essays on Heinrich Heine
and other German writers. Ashton calls her, with Lewes, the leading interpreter of German culture in Britain. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 155 |
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... |
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. Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press. 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 | |
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. 278 |
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. 204-5 |
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... |
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... |
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, 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, p. xiii - 39. 14 |
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. 4n7 Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams. 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... |
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