Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
George Saintsbury
Standard Name: Saintsbury, George
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Helen Waddell | The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes several of HW
's relationships with older men (like Gregory Smith
, George Saintsbury
, and Otto Kyllmann
, chairman of Constable
) as platonic love affairs. |
| Literary responses | Helen Waddell | It was in connection with this play (but before he read the manuscript) that George Saintsbury
told HW
she had the authentic mark of the Maker [that is, the poet] on your forehead. Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable. 31 |
| Textual Production | Helen Waddell | HW
provided an introduction for William Forbes Marshall
's Ballads and Verses from Tyrone, published by the Talbot Press
of Dublin in 1929, and an Appreciation for George Saintsbury
's Shakespeare, 1934. 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. |
| Textual Production | Helen Waddell | An earlier translator was Charlotte Smith
, whose version appeared in probably late 1785. George Saintsbury
supplied an introduction for Waddell's translation (which was reprinted in 1934). This work led to another, a play about... |
| Literary responses | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | George Saintsbury
in 1913 developed an attack on this book as very nearly consummate in badness. . . . a fair example of the worst imitations of Mrs. Radcliffe
and Matthew Lewis
conjointly, though without... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Yonge | This was one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century. Two years after it appeared it was the favourite choice of young officers in hospital during the Crimean War. A guardsman confessed that... |
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