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Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | On 11 May 1812 Henry Crabb Robinson
recorded in his diary meeting JB
and other women writers on a visit to Miss Benjers (Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
). In his account of this pleasant evening... |
Friends, Associates | Germaine de Staël | In Germany she was celebrated as the author of Delphine. She met with Schiller
, Goethe
, Henry Crabb Robinson
, and Schlegel
, whom she persuaded to tutor her three living children. Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg. 61-2 |
Friends, Associates | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
set a great deal of store by meeting men distinguished as authors or in other fields, as a spur to literary achievement of her own. She was given to boasting of her acquaintance with... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Brownell Jameson | ABJ
met Ottilie von Goethe
, the widow of Goethe
's son August; Jameson supported her when she became pregnant out of wedlock in 1835. Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press. 77-9, 92 |
Friends, Associates | Maria Riddell | |
Intertextuality and Influence | May Laffan | Set largely in Laffan's home town of Dublin, Hogan, M.P. captures an Ireland whose growing Catholic middle class is challenging the long empowered Protestant ascendancy. The action takes place three or four years before... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Louisa May Alcott | LMA
's Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustian novel A Modern Mephistopheles was published in 1877. Its title had originally belonged to her sensation novel, A Long and Fatal Love Chase, which was posthumously published in 1995. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 239 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth von Arnim | Inspired by the spirited correspondence between Goethe
and Bettina von Arnim
, EA
(as the author of Elizabeth and her German Garden) published Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther. Woolf, Virginia. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Editors McNeillie, Andrew and Stuart Nelson Clarke, Hogarth Press. 1: 136 Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head. 117 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Smith | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Gerard | This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarojini Naidu | For SN
, writing began as an act of rebellion. She wrote her first poem at the age of eleven when she became frustrated with an algebra problem, and thereupon decided to become a poet.... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Smith | Syndy Conger has noted that this novel reveals a shift in Smith's attitude to sensibility in the four years since her sonnets: where she was enthusiastic she is now sceptical, even satirical, in her stance... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Beatrice Harraden | The epigraph, she said, came from an (unidentified) old English author. Galbraith,. “Things Literary in London Gossip”. New York Times. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Norton | The novel takes its epigraph from Goethe
's Faust. Norton, Caroline, and S. Bailey Shurbutt. Lost and Saved. Scholars’ Facsimilies and Reprints. i |
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