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Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Webb | As a child Mary Meredith (later MW
) wrote stories for her younger brothers and sisters. She first had her writing published after the family moved to Stanton-on-Hine Heath, in the parish magazine. Davies, Linda. Mary Webb Country. Palmers Press. 4 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Webb | The title refers primarily to a legend about a wand of palm (the country name for willow) which brings good luck if it is found on Palm Sunday (when, traditionally, English people carried branches of... |
Education | Harriet Shaw Weaver | |
Literary responses | Mercy Otis Warren | Her biographer, Katharine Anthony
, finds her plays influenced by the classic models of Molière
and Shakespeare
; astonishingly confident, if sometimes crass, in their satirical realism; and written with feeling as well as thought. Anthony, Katharine Susan. First Lady of the Revolution: The Life of Mercy Otis Warren. Kennikat Press. 82-3 |
Textual Production | Marina Warner | MW
's W. D. Thomas
Memorial Lecture given at the University of Wales
, Swansea, was published the same year under the title Donkey Business; donkey work: magic and metamorphosis in contemporary opera... |
Textual Production | Marina Warner | MW
published her retelling of Shakespeare
's play The Tempest: a historical novel, Indigo; or, Mapping the Waters. Moseley, Merritt, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 194. Gale Research. 194: 286-7 |
Literary responses | Marina Warner | This book has proved fruitful and positive, generating many reviews and substantial scholarly articles, written from several perspectives. These include its focus on the untold story of the women in Shakespeare
's Tempest, and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Augusta Ward | It is set in the late nineteenth-century on the boundary between Westmorland and Lancashire, an exquisite country Ward, Mary Augusta. Helbeck of Bannisdale. Editor Worthington, Brian, Penguin. 86 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michelene Wandor | The four characters, who meet periodically, chat, complain, and reminisce. They also rehearse as the witches in Shakespeare
's Macbeth. They dance, they backchat. To a happy retirement, Katie. . . . To gravetime... |
Literary Setting | Michelene Wandor | The writing here mixes love poetry with the evocation of historical periods (the Renaissance, the time of Shakespeare
) and milieus (the various displacements of the Jews around Europe). Her re-envisioning of Esther involves MW |
Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | This poem sequence has been performed to music by Henry Purcell
and John Hingeston
. The other works in the sequence were York, a poem-libretto commemorating a massacre of Jews in York in 1190... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michelene Wandor | It proclaims: this is the story of two people // this is the story of two peoples // and one God / your God or mine? Wandor, Michelene. The Music of the Prophets. Arc Publications. 34 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eglinton Wallace | The Address explains how EW
set out with the lofty and pleasurable intention of aiding the poor in the Isle of Thanet, how the playhouse was all set to open to a capacity audience... |
Textual Production | Eglinton Wallace | The title-page reads: The Conduct of the King of Prussia and General Dumouriez, Investigated by Lady Wallace. An epigraph quotes Shakespeare
's Othello: Nothing extenuate nor set down aught in malice. Wallace, Eglinton. The Conduct of the King of Prussia and General Dumouriez. J. Debrett. title-page |
Education | Alice Walker | On her own the child AW
was always reading. At eight she identified in someone else's house a photograph of Booker T. Washington
—and asked, Why don't you give it to me, please? White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton. 31 |
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