qtd. in
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Linda France
Standard Name: France, Linda
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | E. J. Scovell | EJS
has been much anthologised: in Geoffrey Grigson
's Poetry of the Present: An Anthology of the Thirties and After, 1949, and more recently in collections edited by Fleur Adcock
, Philip Larkin
,... |
| Anthologization | Sheenagh Pugh | Other anthologies including SP
's work are Poems on the Underground, Pat McLoughlin
's edited selection of radio readings entitled Woman's Hour, The Hutchinson Book of Post-War British Poetry, Poems of the... |
| Fictionalization | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | For centuries LMWM
has been interpreted and re-interpreted, judged less often as writer than as an exemplar of the unacceptable female. Her fame and/or notoriety flourished during her lifetime, and posthumous publications kept it alive... |
| Literary responses | E. J. Scovell | Admirers of her work include a number of fellow poets: Carol Rumens
(who identifies her unemphatic, undeceived and honest observation of what is as the mark of a specifically modern sensibility), |
| Literary responses | Ruth Padel | Linda France
, reviewing this book for Mslexia, called it intimate, animated, and inviting. France, Linda. “One of a Kind”. Mslexia, No. 26, Sept. 2005, p. 53. 53 qtd. in Crown, Sarah. “A life in poetry: Ruth Padel”. The Guardian, 16 May 2009. |
| Textual Features | Ruth Padel | The poems here, addressing the circumstances of Darwin
's life, employ a scaffolding of his own words, forcefully shaped, against a background of many other voices (including that of an orangutan in a zoo). They... |
| Textual Production | U. A. Fanthorpe | She co-operated with others in many further works. She appeared with Tony Lopez
in Mortal Heart, 1981. In 1994 she participated in two joint projects: Painter and Poet: Three Poems (limited edition), where her... |
Timeline
Late October 2003: The magazine Mslexia invited UK publishers...
Women writers item
Late October 2003
The magazine Mslexia invited UK publishers to nominate women who had published their first poetry volume in the last ten years, in order to pick a Top Ten list.
Taylor, Debbie. “Class of 2004”. Mslexia, Vol.
20
, Jan. 2004, pp. 18-19. Gwyneth Lewis. http://www.gwynethlewis.com.
Texts
France, Linda. “One of a Kind”. Mslexia, No. 26, p. 53.