Lewis, Margaret. Ngaio Marsh: A Life. Chatto & Windus.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Jo Shapcott | Germaine Greer
's Poems for Gardeners, 2003, includes several of the sensuous little 2-stanza poems that are Shapcott's version of Rainer Maria Rilke
's Les Roses, and printed in her Tender Taxes... |
Anthologization | Viola Meynell | |
Birth | Ngaio Marsh | NM
was born the only child of New Zealand-born Rose Seager Marsh and British-born Henry Edmond Marsh, in a modest, rented house in Fendalton, a suburb of Christchurch. Lewis, Margaret. Ngaio Marsh: A Life. Chatto & Windus. 8 McDorman, Kathryne Slate. Ngaio Marsh. Twayne. xiii, 4 It did not... |
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... |
Characters | Ivy Compton-Burnett | In A Heritage and its History an elderly uncle marries a young girl, his nephew seduces her and the son of their union later wishes to marry the nephew's legitimate daughter. British Book News. British Council. (1959): 747 |
Characters | Elizabeth B. Lester | EBL
gives a different interpretation to Mrs Ross's phrase the balance of comfort, balancing (here and in later novels) the single against the married life. The title-page quotes five prose maxims from one Harris... |
death | Christopher Marlowe | Standard accounts of his death used to say that it was a brawl, largely caused by himself. But accident seems unlikely. He had recently been brought in for questioning by the Privy Council
, but... |
death | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | Reportedly, during the earliest stages of her illness, she was found resting on the sofa and reading Shakespeare
. Life is worth living, she told her family, as long as there is King Lear to... |
Dedications | Anna Brownell Jameson | ABJ
published in two volumes Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical and Historical, later renamed Shakespeare
's Heroines; it was dedicated to Fanny Kemble
. Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press. 237 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Dedications | Christabel Coleridge | This small-size book has an ornamental cover and title-page, both printed in black and red on white. CC
dedicates it, with a quotation offering flowers, from Shakespeare
's The Winter's Tale, to J. F... |
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... |
Education | Jean Rhys | JR
attended the local Catholic convent school where whites were in the minority. Most of the girls were coloured (of mixed blood). Mother Mount Calvary, the Superior of the convent, gave her extra instruction in... |
Education | Margaret Drabble | MD
has recalled how her father, newly demobbed after his wartime army service, patiently taught me to read from a primer called The Radiant Way. Later, Mary McCarthy
's The Group and Doris Lessing |
Education | Frances Mary Peard | However, according to her biographer, Mary J. Y. Harris
, she was largely self-taught. Her mother never restricted her reading, and she later remembered tackling at an early age such classics as Scott
, Shakespeare |
Education | Harriette Wilson | HW
's story of her education is one of tyranny and resistance. Her worst beating from her father was incurred for obstinacy. Her elder sister Jane (called Diana in her memoirs) was supposed to teach... |