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Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Stickney Ellis | In her preface to the poem she outlines theories of poetry, taking much the same approach towards it that she had towards fiction: that verse, like prose, would benefit from attention to simple, everyday life... |
Textual Production | William Empson | WE
published his most controversial work, Milton
's God, in which he argues that the Christian God, as portrayed in orthodox manner, though with exceptional imaginative power, in Paradise Lost, is cruel and morally evil. |
Cultural formation | Ephelia | If this was Ephelia, she grew up in an extremely wealthy, noble family and an incomparably privileged environment, with King James I
her honorary grandfather as well as her godfather, and with fine literature produced... |
Reception | Ephelia | In the late nineteenth century H. B. Wheatley
suggested in Samuel Halkett
and John Laing
's A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain that Ephelia was somebody called Joan Phillips. This... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Olaudah Equiano | The book moves into vivid narrative with OE
's abduction, his mostly tolerable experiences as a slave in Africa (constantly moving on until he reached a tribe who were morally corrupted by whites), and his... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margiad Evans | Several poems in A Candle Ahead invoke ME
's teachers: Milton
, Thomas Traherne
, Walter de la Mare
, and Thomas Hardy
, the theme of whose The Well-Beloved is that of her closing... |
Education | Ruth Fainlight | |
Textual Production | Eleanor Farjeon | At eight, she produced her first play, The Fairy Cave, in seven acts. The stage direction for the last began, A gorden it is night Enter gardner with spad, and with a gun Jack... |
Performance of text | Alison Fell | AF
was a constant source of scenes, burlesques, and improvisations for performance by the Women's Liberation Street Theatre Group
. She also wrote for a number of underground or radical papers: Ink, Islington Gutter... |
Textual Features | Eliza Fenwick | For this anthology EF
gathered mostly improving pedagogical material, drawing on revered literary names like Shakespeare
and Milton
, as well as more recent and controversial writers like Thomas Chatterton
and Helen Maria Williams
... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eva Figes | EF
's protagonist covers many topics: she speaks of her female experience (deaths of children in successive generations, anxiety for survivors, living with gendered contempt), her economic experience (the poverty of weavers, like her husband... |
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
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Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Fletcher | EF
wrote her Dramatic Sketches, Elidure in three weeks and Edward in two, after reading Milton
's History of Britain, that Part especially now call'd England, 1670. Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Mary, Lady Richardson, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation. 122-3, 150 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs E. M. Foster | As an epistolary novel, Concealment lacks the characteristic metanarrative of other MEMF
novels, though an interesting prologue addressed to the reader from the Authoress cautions against the practice of concealment. Foster also identifies herself, in... |
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) “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 276 |
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