Ruth Padel. http://web.archive.org/web/20090507090438/http://www.ruthpadel.com/index.htm.
Education Interview, the Independent
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Education | Catherine Carswell | CC
found solace and took immense pleasure in music throughout her life. She attended many concerts and heard pretty well every great instrumental and vocal soloist of my time in one place or another (from... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ruth Padel | According to RP
's website, her Padel great-great-grandfather (called elsewhere her great-grandfather) Ruth Padel. http://web.archive.org/web/20090507090438/http://www.ruthpadel.com/index.htm. Education Interview, the Independent |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth von Arnim | In Berlin, May von Arnim-Schlagenthin first encountered the works of Goethe
and also of Bettina von Arnim
. The latter was a literary and family forebear of her husband, a poet and an associate... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Bernice Rubens | Spring Sonata is said during its course to mimic the dialogic structure of Beethoven
's musical composition of the same name. Rubens, Bernice. Spring Sonata. W. H. Allen, 1979. 122 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Pym | In The Sweet Dove DiedBP
deals with male homosexual relationships in connection with problems experienced by single women in their fifties. The name of the central character, Leonora Eyre, suggests Beethoven
's Leonora overtures... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Jolley | The narrative voice (a Scottish one, apparently as a kind of joke) is complex and shifting, with irony fed by unstable reference to the central couple (now Muriel and Henry, now Mother and Father, and... |
Leisure and Society | Frances Ridley Havergal | FRH
could play much of Handel
, Beethoven
, and Mendelssohn
from memory, and her powers as a solo singer were very much in request in the Philharmonic Society at Kidderminster. Enock, Esther E. Frances Ridley Havergal. Pickering and Inglis, 1928. 20 |
Leisure and Society | Josephine Butler | |
Leisure and Society | Mary Cowden Clarke | At Salzburg in 1879 MCC
heard Hans Richter
conducting the Vienna Orchestra
(now the Vienna Philharmonic), and thought him the best conductor she had ever heard, superior even to Mendelssohn. Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896. 184 |
Occupation | Anne Evans | Although her life was a quiet one, she did not want for occupation: she was a talented musician and composer, although she grew dissatisfied with her singing, and gave it up later in life. According... |
Reception | Teresa Deevy | An interview with Deevy, conducted during the dress rehearsal, likened her creative vanquishing of her disability to that of Beethoven
. The Teresa Deevy Archive. 2014, http://deevy.nuim.ie/. Timeline |
Residence | Blanche Warre Cornish | Blanche's widowed mother was back in England in July 1862 to make a home for her children, particularly her daughters. She settled her family in a well-appointed manor house in Dorset in the west of... |
Textual Features | Ali Smith | The subject of voice appears in a more darkly humorous aspect in The Child, wherein the woman narrator finds a baby mysteriously present in her shopping cart. The baby proceeds to spout all manner... |
Textual Production | Jeanette Winterson | Her contributors included Ali Smith
on Beethoven
's Fidelio, Anne Enright
on Dvorak
's Rusalka, Jackie Kay
on Janacek
's The Makropulos Case, Joanna Trollope
on Donizetti
's L'Elisir d'Amore, Kate Atkinson |
Textual Production | Nadine Gordimer | NG
's style in her next volume of stories, Beethoven
Was One-sixteenth Black, impressed reviewers with her continuing brilliance in composition. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Siddhartha, Deb. “Patterns of Intimacy”. The New York Times, 16 Dec. 2007. Edelstein, Jean Hannah. “The same secret”. Guardian Weekly, 11 Jan. 2008, pp. 35-6. 35-6 |
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