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Textual Production | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | GHS
worked with her husband
on a translation of Ferdinand Bruckner
's Rassen, which she describes as a Jewish William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet. They found the work a rush (it had to be ready... |
Textual Production | Angela Thirkell | For O, these Men, these Men!, a non-comic novel, AT
chose a title quotation from Shakespeare
's Othello, in which a wife (Emilia) makes light of a marital situation (with her husband Iago)... |
Textual Production | Ngaio Marsh | NM
's final detective novel was posthumously published. The title, Light Thickens, is quoted from a foreboding speech in Shakespeare
's Macbeth and the plot revolves around a production of that play, which is... |
Textual Production | Marghanita Laski | |
Textual Production | E. Nesbit | This by no means exhausts the list of EN
's writings for children. The first number of The Enchanted Castle (which is less episodic, perhaps less brilliant, and more socially critical than the Phoenix or... |
Textual Production | Laura Riding | LR
published A Trojan Ending, her novel about Cressida, the Greek heroine of Chaucer
, Robert Henryson
, and Shakespeare
. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books. 296 Wexler, Joyce Piell. Laura Riding: A Bibliography. Garland. 60 |
Textual Production | Gertrude Stein | Carl Van Vechten
edited and selected the texts to provide a sample of the various styles and periods of GS
's writings. He puts her in the same category as Joyce
, Eliot
, and... |
Textual Production | Theodora Benson | TB
published her first novel, Salad Days, with a dedication to her friend and future collaborator Betty Askwith
. The title-page quotes Shakespeare
's Cleopatra. 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. |
Textual Production | Ella D'Arcy | John Lane
of the Bodley Head
published Modern Instances, his second of two volumes of stories by EDA
. The title, from Jacques' Seven Ages of Man speech in William ShakespeareAs You Like It... |
Textual Production | Pamela Frankau | She wrote it at the age of seventeen, on suburban trains while commuting between her Windsor home and her office job in London. She thought her heroine resembled Shakespeare
's famously irresolute hero, and... |
Textual Production | Ruth Padel | In Your Life as a WaveRP
, invited to respond to Shakespeare
's sonnets, built on Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore in two sections based on the successive movement: incoming... |
Textual Production | Mary Robinson | From The WorldMR
moved on to a rival periodical, The Oracle, to which she contributed fairy poems as Oberon—a name which perhaps owes something to Frances Greville
's famous Ode to Indifference... |
Textual Production | Jeanette Winterson | JW
published a novel titled The Gap in Time. The Winter's Tale Retold: first in the Hogarth Shakespeare series in which novelists are commissioned to retell a Shakespearean
plot. She dedicated it to the... |
Textual Production | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | That same year MEC
composed A Clever Woman, a poem detailing its female speaker's heartbreak upon realizing that her intellect has made her beloved view her as if she were a platonic male companion... |
Textual Production | Sheenagh Pugh | This subject provides her with an unusual angle on intertextuality: SP
investigates not only the proliferation of sequels to Jane Austen
novels (by Joan Aiken
, Emma Tennant
, and many others) but also the... |
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