Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 159. Gale Research, 1996.
159: 258
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Publishing | Margaret Oliphant | The Cornhill Magazine published MO
's story Queen Eleanor
and Fair Rosamund. Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 159. Gale Research, 1996. 159: 258 |
Residence | Marie de France | Having moved to England, MF frequented the court of Henry II
and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine
(who was a patron, and the descendant of a troubadour). |
Textual Features | Michael Field | Fair Rosamund chronicles the legend of young Rosamund
's tragic love for Henry II, King of England
. In the end Rosamund, now the king's mistress stabs herself with a knife given to her by... |
Textual Features | Hildegarde of Bingen | The quantity of HB's letters, which were collected near the end of her life, is immense. Ferrante, Joan M. “Correspondent: ’Blessed Is the Speech of Your Mouth’”. Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World, edited by Barbara Newman, University of California Press, 1998, pp. 91-109. 91 Ferrante, Joan M. “Correspondent: ’Blessed Is the Speech of Your Mouth’”. Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World, edited by Barbara Newman, University of California Press, 1998, pp. 91-109. 100 |
Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
saw herself as a professional dramatist, and in the tradition of that metier she was always alert for stories of distant origin, or forgotten or unfinished plays by others, which might be reworked for... |
Textual Production | Fleur Adcock | In December 1986 FA
published the sequence of ballads entitled Hotspur (spoken by Elizabeth Mortimer
, historical wife of Harry Percy
, heir to the first Earl of Northumberland, Shakespeare
's Hotspur). These poems were... |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | In the last decade of her life, JP
published another twelve historical novels under this name: a thirteenth appeared in the year of her death, 1993. Some of these novels revisit ground or people covered... |
Textual Production | Norah Lofts | NL
published a historical novel about Eleanor of Aquitaine
titled Eleanor the Queen: The Story of the Most Famous Woman of the Middle Ages. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 80 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marina Warner | In Our Lady of the CountercultureMW
writes of her own early search for heroinism from heroines like Eleanor of Aquitaine
or Florence Nightingale
(featured in the young people's comic Girl) through scandalous women... |
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