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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | The title-page quotes Shakespeare
on the divinity that shapes our ends. EST
's preface (dated at Chaldon on 25 June) Tomlins, Elizabeth Sophia. Rosalind de Tracey. Charles Dilly. 1: vi |
Education | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna | CET
was self-taught, although she studied hard in her childhood, Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. 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. |
Occupation | P. L. Travers | Instead of taking up her university scholarship, PLT
went to work. First Aunt Ellie wangled her a secretarial job for which she had to fake competence in maths. Then she managed to get permission to... |
Education | Iris Tree | In her early childhood, she read Andrew Lang
's fairy tales, and particularly his Brown Fairy Book (1904). She learned history from the plays of Shakespeare
, with which she became familiar in her many... |
Birth | Viola Tree | Her father, the famous actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
, named her after the Viola of Shakespeare
's Twelfth Night (though he almost named her Rosalind, for As You Like It). At her birth... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | Throughout her life, VT
took direction from her father, the actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
, who had abandoned his job in the family corn-trading business to pursue a career on stage, and had changed... |
Education | Rose Tremain | At this stage of her life, Rosie's great interest and talent was not writing but painting, like her sister. She set out to make a huge, hanging, illustrated copy of Keats
's Ode to Autumn... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rose Tremain | Most of the stories concern love, and some make creative use of the lives or works of other authors, like Tolstoy
and Daphne Du Maurier
. In The Closing DoorRT
created a character who... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rose Tremain | Her dedicatee was a bookstore owner in Nashville, Tennessee, where he involved himself in the Civil Rights movement in 1960. (His son Richard
is known as a writer). RT
uses three epigraphs: from St John of the Cross |
Education | Melesina Trench | Her successive years with different guardians account for the apparent inconsistency in her comments about her education. In maturity she named her favourite youthful reading as Shakespeare
, Molière
, and Sterne
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Melesina Trench | Particular sketches include an allegory sent to Mary Leadbeater entitled The Birth of Calumny Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Parker and Bourn. 162-4 |
Education | Melesina Trench | After the deaths of her parents Melesina Chenevix was committed to the care of a governess who had a determination to rule by rigour. . . . The fear and distaste I had for her... |
Textual Production | Frances Eleanor Trollope | FET
published a novel about spiritualism, Black Spirits and White. The title is quoted from an incantatory lyric which is better remembered than its provenance. It occurs in Sir William Davenant
's version of... |
Textual Features | Catharine Trotter | CT
's dedication sets out her own literary and dramatic models: Shakespeare
, Dryden
, Otway
, and Nathaniel Lee
. Clark, Constance. Three Augustan Women Playwrights. Peter Lang. 87 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Maria Tucker | Her pupils (all boys) were said to love the songs and plays she wrote for them. One of the plays was The Bee and the Butterfly; one of the songs went What is it... |
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