Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London.
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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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Matilda Hays | The intense relationship between MH
and Cushman is the subject of considerable debate over whether it constituted a lesbian union. After meeting the pair, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
wrote in a letter to a friend, I... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Howitt | Longfellow
, though at first critical of their work, relied on it for the information about Scandinavian literature (chiefly Danish and Icelandic) that went into his Poets and Poetry of Europe, 1870. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 249 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Hubback | Dedicating this book to Edward Seymour
and his wife Elizabeth
of Porthmawr, Crickhowell, CH
presents the work as an attempt to illustrate the Seymour family motto, which forms the book's subtitle and is invoked... |
Intertextuality and Influence | E. M. Hull | EMH
's version of the already existing desert romance made the desert less a place of mystery and intrigue than a place made exclusively and particularly for sex. Anderson, Rachel. The Purple Heart Throbs. Hodder and Stoughton. 184 |
Textual Production | Jean Ingelow | Two years after the release of her second volume entitled Poems, some of her verses appeared in a Canadian collection titled The New Poems of Jean Ingelow, J. G. Whittier
, H. W. Longfellow. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Friends, Associates | Jean Ingelow | JI
had a small but distinguished circle of intimate friends. By 1863 she was a friend of Alfred Tennyson
and was also close to Dora Greenwell
. She admired and respected Robert Browning
(though she... |
Textual Production | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
, wrote to poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
to express her appreciation for his work; she sent copies of verses she had written on him that had appeared in the Boston Pilot. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray. 135 |
names | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | JFLW
never used her first name, except for inconsequential correspondence. She was probably christened Frances (as was an elder sister who died) and later italianized it. She also developed a rich etymology for her surname... |
Cultural formation | Pauline Johnson | As the daughter of an English mother and a Mohawk father, PJ
was attentive to issues of her dual heritage; by Canadian law she was deemed Indian. She identified herself as Mohawk. Keller, Betty. Pauline: A Biography of Pauline Johnson. Douglas and McIntyre. 5 There is... |
Education | Pauline Johnson | |
Occupation | Fanny Kemble | She much preferred reading to full-scale theatrical productions: The happiness of reading Shakespeare's heavenly imaginations is so far beyond all the excitement of acting them. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster. 145 |
Education | Mary Lavin | The young ML
had as strong an enjoyment of company as of solitude, and enjoyed the school she went to in Massachusetts. Nevertheless at this stage she was her own most important teacher. Her parents... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Leonowens | In 1872 AL
met John Paine
, a wealthy older man with an interest in literature and a fan of her writing. Through Paine she was introduced to the elite of the New York arts... |
Textual Features | Edna Lyall | The story opens with Charles Osmond's son Brian, a young doctor in Bloomsbury, and his daily observation of a tall schoolgirl on her way home with her books. This is Erica Raeburn, who has... |
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