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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... |
Residence | Susan Hill | |
Residence | Marie Corelli | In Stratford, MC
became known as an eccentric. Her forceful character and her self-proclaimed guardianship of Shakespeare
's memory and birthplace offended many townspeople. Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press. |
Textual Features | Hélène Cixous | As she was preparing to stage La Prise de l'école de Madhubai in 1984, she met Ariane Mnouchkine
, the director of the experimental Théâtre du Soleil
, who was known for her innovation in... |
Textual Features | Barbara Cartland | Her heroines always remained chaste until they were married, no matter how great the temptation. I do allow them to go to bed if they're married, but it's all very wonderful and the moon beams... |
Textual Features | Ann Jellicoe | The fanciful science-fiction drama presents a world ruled by Mother, who leads the older women of the world to banish men from society and from history. Schoolgirls are made to repeat the chorus, Shakespeare |
Textual Features | Olive Schreiner | Tillie Olsen
in 1978 pointed out a striking anticipation here of Woolf
's A Room of One's Own: what of the possible Shakespeares
we might have had who passed their life from youth upward... |
Textual Features | Marghanita Laski | She insists that even Jane Austen
. . . could write letters of a bitchiness and coarseness not inferrable from the impeccable sense of human values in her books. Laski, Marghanita. “To the Editor: ’George Eliot and Her World’”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3725, p. 869. 869 |
Textual Features | Thomas Hardy | TH
's earliest poems, written in London, reflect the influence of Shakespeare
and George Meredith
on one hand, Gittings, Robert. Young Thomas Hardy. Penguin. 122-3 |
Textual Features | Amy Levy | The frontispiece shows a woman sitting beside a well with an empty bucket. The caption, in Latin, indicates that she has despaired of finding Truth, which proverbially lies at the bottom of a well. Many... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Heyrick | EH
enlarges on the terrible state of the Irish peasantry, with unemployment surpassing four million and many deaths from starvation. She comments on the Vagrancy Act of 21 June 1824; on the fact that prison... |
Textual Features | Frances Brooke | The periodical's theatre reports, provided by a little court of female criticism Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xiv Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xiv |
Textual Features | Ali Smith | The arborist re-reads Oliver Twist alongside their partner's lectures and urges the partner to consider discussing the musical form of the novel (a request accommodated, as the academic threads it in alongside Auld Lang Syne... |
Textual Features | Jane Harvey | The contents include descriptive and melancholy sonnets, satire, autobiography, and politics (including a poem on the horrors of slavery, addressed to William Wilberforce
, and another about the sorrow of a woman whose lover has... |
Textual Features | Anne Dowriche | Randall Martin notes how Dowriche's use of Gentillet/Patrick brings her work into the anti-Machiavel tradition. Her Machiavel is a female one: Catherine de Medici
(which was not unusual). Her Catherine speaks in gendered terms when... |
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