Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000.
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Education | May Sinclair | Here she extended her already very considerable reading in English literature and philosophy, and in the Greeks from Homer
and Æschylus
. She also studied modern languages and several branches of mathematics and science. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000. 24-5 |
Education | Sophia Jex-Blake | The first to respond was Mrs Isabel Thorne
, the next Miss Edith Pechey
. When two more women—Miss Matilda Chaplin
and Mrs Helen Evans
—expressed their intention to apply, SJB
proceeded to request matriculation... |
Education | Virginia Woolf | Virginia read Aeschylus
, Homer
, Sophocles
, and Plato
, among others, with Clara Pater. In 1902, however, the Cambridge-educated Janet Case
, who was a feminist as well as a classicist, took over... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margiad Evans | ME
chose the name because the figure of the tragic classical prophetess was much in her mind, crying aloud in the garden in Aeschylus
's words: Once more thy heavy hand with ease hath ruined... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | Here the quotation of Æschylus
' Hymn to Zeus by the character Max Lejour (modelled on the scholar Eduard Fraenkel
, whose famous Aeschylus seminar IM
had attended) focuses the book's argument that liberal-humanist optimism... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hélène Cixous | Jewoman again discusses myth, particularly that of Orestes, Agamemnon's son, who kills his mother Clytemnestra. Upon Agamemnon's return from the Trojan War (as related in drama by Æschylus
and others), Clytemnestra murdered him because, before... |
Literary responses | Sappho | Margaret Reynolds
in The Sappho Companion, 2001, sweeps with a broad net translations, portraits, ballets, operas, poems, plays, novels, songs and treatises. Gubar, Susan. “Multiple personality”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol. xviii , No. 12, Sept. 2001, pp. 13-14. 13 |
Literary responses | Caroline Clive | Despite the universal opinion that the sequel was decidedly weaker than the original, it nevertheless did well enough to go into several editions. The Saturday Review noted that it was a book which, even if... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Anna Swanwick | AS
found her life in London too busy to allow her the concentration she needed to translate the rest of Æschylus
. She therefore retired for the winter of 1866-7 to Bangor in North Wales... |
Performance of text | Liz Lochhead | Following LL
's Medea, her Thebans (adapted from Sophocles
and Euripides
and to a lesser extent from Æschylus
) opened at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh as part of the Fringe Festival
. Lochhead, Liz et al. Thebans. Nick Hern, 2003. title-page, prelims |
politics | Beatrice Harraden | BH
seems to have been patriotic (at least in contrast with those of her friends who were pacifists) and pro-Empire: that is, apart from the issue of women's suffrage, fairly conservative in politics. But as... |
Publishing | Anna Swanwick | AS
issued The Dramas of Æchylus, her translation of the entire corpus of Æschylus
—the trilogy already published, plus the four titles she had worked on later—in a handsome edition illustrated by Flaxman
. Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin, 1903. 93, 105 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | It contained the contents of the previous volumes, a new translation of Æschylus
's Prometheus Bound, The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point, and further sonnets. These including sonnets on her sisters, her dog... |
Textual Production | J. K. Rowling | The two epigraphs inserted at the beginning of this final novel added an element of seriousness to the work: the first is from Aeschylus
and the second from the seventeenth-century QuakerWilliam Penn
. A... |
Textual Production | Christine Brooke-Rose | CBR
published Amalgamemnon, a novel written in the future and conditional tenses, the subjunctive or imperative moods, qtd. in Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press, 1994. 107n26 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press, 1994. 230 |