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Textual Production | Hélène Gingold | This bore both her birth and married names (Mrs. Laurence Cowen) and sold for one shilling, dedicated to the Members of the London Stock Exchange
. In an introduction she mentions the libel... |
Textual Production | Anne Manning | AM
's first major historical novel appeared anonymously: The Maiden & Married Life of Mary Powell, Afterwards Mistress Milton. Framed as a journal kept by the poet John Milton
's first wife, it remains her best-known work. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Textual Production | Aldous Huxley | AH
published another novel, Eyeless in Gaza, titled with a quotation in which the hero of Milton
's Samson Agonistes laments his enslaved condition. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press, 1996. 357 Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1987. 278 Watt, Donald, editor. Aldous Huxley: The Critical Heritage. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975. 245 |
Textual Production | Harriet Corp | The title in full is An Antidote to the Miseries of Human Life, In the History of the Widow Placid, and Her Daughter Rachel. HC
's title does not mean that she sought to... |
Textual Production | Janet Hamilton | Although he comments on the defects caused by a lack of classical education, and seems to rate her moral character more highly than her literary ability, Gilfillan
pronounces Hamilton's work to be of uncommon excellence... |
Textual Production | Eva Figes | EF
published with Sinclair-Stevenson
a novel entitled The Tree of Knowledge, centred on the longest-surviving daughter of the poet Milton
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Butler | Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton
, and Harriet Pigott
therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby
. Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, 1930, p. vii - viii; various pages. vii |
Textual Production | Mary Webb | MW
published what is probably her best-known work, her final completed novel, Precious Bane (titled from Milton
's name for gold—part of the natural resources of Hell—in Paradise Lost). The phrase had also been... |
Textual Production | Kathleen Raine | KR
published the first book of her three-volume autobiography, Farewell Happy Fields: Memories of Childhood. The first three words of the title are spoken by Milton
's Satan after he is cast out of... |
Textual Production | Kathleen Caffyn | KC
's novel-writing career extended for a further seventeen indefatigable years after this. Novels she issued before her final one in 1916 are of considerable interest, though they received less and less praise. The Minx... |
Textual Production | Anne Grant | EG's first literary activity came at the age of nine, when she attempted to imitate Milton
. As she later put it, I very early discovered a faculty for rhyming scarcely worthy to be dignified... |
Textual Production | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
titled a little book of essays Shepherd's Trade: this title embodies her claim to be an author, but conceals the implications of its original in Milton
's Lycidas, which questions the value... |
Textual Production | Antonia Fraser | In AF
's thriller Cool Repentance her detective, Jemima Shore, owed her solution of the mystery to her ability to recognise a line from Milton
's Comus. Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003. (1988) “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 276 |
Textual Production | Kathleen Raine | Her title seems to combine memory of Milton
's human face divine (in the lines on his own blindness in Paradise Lost) with that of Blake's human form divine. Consideration of the twenty-two engravings... |
Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | Since the early 1990s, MW
has turned her attention to music. Her libretti and radio plays include works based on poems by John Cornford
, John Milton
, and Ariosto
: Spain, first performed... |
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