Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
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Textual Production | Patricia Highsmith | PH
said her first push in the direction of writing came when I was nine years old. My English teacher gave a typically painful assignment, a composition on the subject of How I Spent My... |
Education | Emily Hickey | She demonstrated an early interest in reading. Scott
, Tennyson
, and Barrett Browning
numbered among her early favourites. Her father, however, did not allow her to read Shakespeare
, as he was repelled by... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Hickey | Before she was twenty EH
discovered the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
and Alfred Tennyson
, which inspired her to begin composing narrative poems. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research. 199: 168 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | Some of the poems in Records of Woman have recently been embraced by certain scholars (including Isobel Armstrong
in Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, who discusses them alongside poems by L. E. L. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | Wordsworth
in 1837 revised his existing Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg to include a stanza describing FH
as that holy Spirit / Sweet as the spring, as ocean deep. Wordsworth, William. The Complete Poetical Works of Wordsworth. Editor George, Andrew J., Houghton Mifflin. 737 |
Anthologization | Felicia Hemans | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Matilda Hays | Woven into the novel is considerable commentary on the art, music, and literary productions of the day. Quotations are given from or allusions made to a wide range of authors including Tennyson
, Longfellow
(used... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Ellen Harrison | Moving in London's social and creative circles, JEH
also met Robert Browning
, Walter Pater
, Henry James
, and Alfred Tennyson
(whom she called the most openly vain man I ever met)... |
Occupation | Charlotte Guest | Another occupation of her later years was a printing press which she set up at Canford. Among its productions were two poems by Tennyson
. Guest, Charlotte. Extracts from her Journal, 1833–1852. Editor Bessborough, Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, John Murray. 8 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Guest | One of CG
's admirers was Tennyson
, who was soon to become Poet Laureate. He re-told one of her tales in Idylls of the King. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Augusta Gregory | With her marriage, AG
became part of her husband's impressive social network. She met Queen Victoria
, Heinrich Schliemann
, and James Froude
shortly after her wedding, and visited Robert Browning
and Henry James
on... |
Textual Features | Augusta Gregory | The play itself, entitled Colman and Guaire, is based on the local Irish legend of Saint Colman and King Guaire, drawn from the stories of workhouse inmates and other people around Coole. Gregory, Augusta. My First Play. Elkin Mathews and Marrot. 2 |
Education | Elinor Glyn | As a girl, the future EG
loved to hear Tennyson
's poetry, especially the Idylls of the King (published from 1859), many of which she learned by heart. She also adored George MacDonald
's The... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elinor Glyn | Whereas on love EG
sounds overwhelmingly passionate, on marriage she sounds noticeably cynical. In a section of the book devoted to the question, Why Marriage is Often a Failure, she suggests that because marriage... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maggie Gee | MG
was six when her five-page, semi-illegible saga on the life of an Indian woman teapicker won third prize in the Typhoo Tea
Handwriting Competition (which despite its name must, she says, have disregarded writing... |
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