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Textual Features | Shena Mackay | |
Textual Features | Ngaio Marsh | This novel is set during the opening production at The Dolphin, a recently derelict and now lovingly restored Victorian theatre beside the Thames in London. The central character, Peregrine or Perry Jay, is a... |
Textual Features | Muriel Jaeger | In an amusing fantasy entitled Trial of Jane Austen the accused stands charged with masquerading as a great writer. Jaeger, Muriel. Shepherd’s Trade. Arthur H. Stockwell, 1965. 118 |
Textual Features | Frances Arabella Rowden | An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820) Rowden, Frances Arabella. A Biographical Sketch of the Most Distinguished Writers of Ancient and Modern Times. 1829. 1829, iv |
Textual Features | Samuel Johnson | This was not the first dictionary of English, but its predecessors had remained more or less close to the model of a word-list, omitting common words or any attempt to distinguish one idiomatic usage from... |
Textual Features | E. Nesbit | EN
does not come clean here about the complicated sexual and genealogical relationships in her family, but she gives a sensitive account of her own development and attitudes as a writer. It is here that... |
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 | Anne Grant | Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson
(whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809, 3 vols. 2: 45-8 |
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 | Anne Manning | This book makes some pretence of being an early text, though the way that Nicholas Moldwarp is named and introduced suggests the superior eye of posterity. Manning once again imitates not only early spelling, but... |
Textual Features | Laetitia Pilkington | Whereas the ballad-opera (based on Shakespeare
's The Taming of the Shrew) was misogynist, as its title suggests, LP
's prologue was vehemently pro-woman. |
Textual Features | Kathleen Nott | Here KN
writes a lively style, with ingenious images and examples, paradoxes like giving a name a bad dog (by which she means taking a concept like Liberalism or Science and using it pejoratively), Nott, Kathleen. The Emperor’s Clothes. Heinemann, 1953. 43 |
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 | 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, 1997, p. ix - xlix. xiv Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. ix - xlix. xiv |
Textual Features | Eva Figes | This text is divided into short, discrete paragraphs which seem often unconnected with each other. The first one reads Oh, my lost ones. Figes, Eva. Ghosts. Hamish Hamilton, 1988. 1 |
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