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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | HMB
published at Bath an expurgated edition of twenty of Shakespeare
's plays, in four volumes, as The Family Shakespeare. |
| Publishing | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | By the time she reached twenty, MEC
was regularly contributing essays to periodicals like The Monthly Packet and Merry England. One of her first publications was an essay on Shakespeare
for The Theatre. Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth. “Memoir and Editorial Materials”. Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge, edited by Edith Sichel, Constable, pp. 1 - 44; various pages. 15 Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research. 78 |
| Publishing | Charlotte Stopes | Although it was relatively unpopular with the critics, Shakespeare
's Environment was reprinted with additions in 1918. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Publishing | Angela Thirkell | In 1930, once she was back in England, she found she could earn her living by journalism for Punch and the Fortnightly Review. She was attuned to writing by women from an early stage... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Gaskell | The story's ending led to conflict with Dickens
, who apparently wanted to offer readers a more rationalist interpretation of the events narrated. When Gaskell demurred he pulled out all the stops: I have no... |
| Publishing | Pamela Frankau | PF
's agent rejected the first novel she finished after Marriage of Harlequin, which dealt with a playwright she had imagined herself in love with, and which she called (again from Shakespeare
's Hamlet... |
| Publishing | Mary Maria Colling | Some time after 17 March 1831 Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green
presented Colling with a copy of the plays of Shakespeare
(the Bard), having heard that she admired his poetry. Bray, Anna Eliza, and Mary Maria Colling. “Letters to Robert Southey”. Fables and Other Pieces in Verse by M.M. Colling, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, pp. 1-85. 16 |
| Publishing | L. M. Montgomery | At Prince of Wales College
in Charlottetown a few years after this, she wrote an essay on Shakepeare's
Portia which was read out at the graduation ceremonies and printed in the Charlottetown Guardian. In... |
| Publishing | Mary Cowden Clarke | MCC
issued in eighteen monthly parts The Complete Concordance to Shakspere. 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. |
| Publishing | Samuel Johnson | SJ
published by subscription, again after many delays, his edition of Shakespeare
. Bronson, Bertrand H., and Samuel Johnson. “Introduction”. Johnson on Shakespeare, edited by Arthur Sherbo and Arthur Sherbo, Yale Edition, Yale University Press, p. xiii - xxxviii. xxiii |
| Publishing | Anne Grant | AG
had been urged to publish when she first became a widow, but had more dread of censure than hope of applause. Grant, Anne. Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan. Editor Grant, John Peter, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1: 15 |
| Reception | Jane Austen | Austen's status in the English-speaking world is not so far equalled among, for instance, French speakers. Valérie Cossy
noted in March 2006 that (largely on account of inaccurate and inadequate translations) [v]ery few people in... |
| Reception | Molly Keane | When she wrote this book, MKthought it was pure Shakespeare
. Well, not Shakespeare exactly—more Dornford Yates
. Chamberlain, Mary, editor. Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers. Virago Press. 122 Yates wrote popular, jokey novels about a charismatic but self-regarding and jingoistic set of comfortably-off... |
| Reception | Marie Corelli | MC
took her own work extremely seriously, seeing herself as the Shakespeare
of her age and genre. Anderson, Rachel, and Sheila Kaye-Smith. “Introduction”. Joanna Godden, Dial, p. xi - xviii. xiv |
| Reception | Flora Thompson | In further Ladies Companion competitions the same year, FT
went on to win joint second prize for her essay on Emily Brontë
(which, again, the magazine printed) and another first prize for her essay on... |
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