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.
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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. |
Textual Production | Mary Delany | MD
wrote for Handel
a libretto adapted from Milton
's Paradise Lost; it has not been traced. 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. Delany, Mary. The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany. Editor Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover, R. Bentley. II: 280 |
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 | Mary Delany | |
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... |
Textual Features | Jane Harvey | JH
's preface discusses the moral and artistic duties of the writer; she assumes that this person is male until she reaches the diffidence and timidity which in the bosom of a female writer is... |
Textual Features | Mary Shelley | Within the next couple of days she read two more books by Wollstonecraft (along with works by Livy
and Milton
). But she says nothing about these texts, or about the experience of reading them... |
Textual Features | Deborah Levy | The detached wryness of this book reminded Lauren Elkin
of Djuna Barnes
. Elkin, Lauren, and Deborah Levy. “Introduction”. Beautiful Mutants and Swallowing Geography. Two Early Novels, Bloomsbury, p. vii - xiii. x |
Textual Features | Eleanor Tatlock | Her preface says she is not altogether unknown to the religious Public Tatlock, Eleanor. Poems. S. Burton. preface |
Textual Features | Katherine Philips | In some sense, therefore, she dictated the terms of the anthology. Its full title was The Virgin Muse: Being a Collection of Poems from our Most Celebrated English Poets, designed for the use of... |
Textual Features | Alethea Lewis | She heads her novel with a prefatory letter to the Rev. William Johnstone
, who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities... |
Textual Features | Muriel Jaeger | In an amusing fantasy entitled Trial of Jane Austen the accused stands charged with masquerading as a great writer. Jaeger, Muriel. Shepherd’s Trade. Arthur H. Stockwell. 118 |
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
... |
Textual Features | Frances Cornford | In A Glimpse Cornford describes the unchanging environment, the Smooth-shadowed waters Milton
loved, Cornford, Frances. Different Days. Hogarth Press. 24 |
Textual Features | Ann Jellicoe | The fanciful science-fiction drama presents a world ruled by Mother, who leads the older women of the world to banish men from society and from history. Schoolgirls are made to repeat the chorus, Shakespeare |
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