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Occupation | Thomas Babington, first Baron Macaulay | TBBM
received his first public attention after publishing an essay on Milton
in the Edinburgh Review. He later sat for the Whig Party
in Parliament
. There he took a role in passing the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | Her protagonist, Theresa Morven, has until three years before the story opens been buried in a French convent at the behest of her stepmother, whom, however, she steadfastly refuses to hate. (Her own mother died... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | Twenty-two of the poems are the sister's, thirty-eight the brother's, and three are written by Eliza, a sister-in-law. An Advertisement gallantly suggests that the lady outshines the gentleman. EST
's verse introduction confesses her early... |
Education | Rose Tremain | At this stage of her life, Rosie's great interest and talent was not writing but painting, like her sister. She set out to make a huge, hanging, illustrated copy of Keats
's Ode to Autumn... |
Textual Production | Evelyn Underhill | In a letter she wrote in December 1892, on the eve of her seventeenth birthday, she assesses the religious and other opinions she held during a period of her life that was about to close... |
Publishing | Helen Waddell | Helen Waddell
, translated and privately printed in a small booklet Lament for Damon, a version of Milton
's Epitaphium Damonis. |
Textual Production | Helen Waddell | Dame Felicitas Corrigan
edited further translations of poetry (with some striking original pieces) by HW
in More Latin Lyrics from Virgil
to Milton. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Education | Helen Waddell | She attended the Victoria School for Girls
in Belfast from 1900, then took a year of private study from 1907 to 1908 before going on to read English (with Latin and French) at Queen's University, Belfast |
Textual Production | Priscilla Wakefield | She dedicated this work to her two grandsons, and quoted Milton
on its title-page. Wakefield, Priscilla. Instinct Displayed. Darton and Harvey. title-page |
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 |
Textual Features | Michelene Wandor | Her range of reference is wide: Milton
, Cromwell
, Virginia Woolf
, Joan Baez
, fairy tales, the Bible, and settings (as her publisher puts it) from Jerusalem to Hollywood, cafes to graveyards. |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Augusta Ward | The contemporary story features a self-educated working-class intellectual and freethinker whose characterisation draws on many strands of thought of the day. Drawn after the model of self-made men such as Daniel Macmillan
, William Lovett |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Watts | The first number, dated 1 December 1824, opens with The Editors to the Reader, in which Watts's three personae introduce themselves as sisters. They are very literary personifications, who possess, respectively, the actual spear... |
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... |
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