Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo, 2002.
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Publishing | Fay Weldon | More recently, she says, films written with her half-brother
have had serious subjects—Boadicea
, or the SAS
, or the Second Coming Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo, 2002. 114-15 |
Textual Features | Rosemary Sutcliff | Both the Roman, military, and the tribal, bronze-age worlds are thoroughly masculinist. Roman women do not appear; the tradition-bound lives of British women are separate, having little in common with those of their men. Each... |
Textual Features | Adrienne Rich | These poems abandon AR
's former regular metres for free verse, as they abandon decorum for outspoken personal expression about the struggle necessary to be a thinking woman rather than a good girl. qtd. in O’Mahoney, John. “Poet and Pioneer: Adrienne Rich”. The Guardian, 15 June 2002, pp. Review 20 - 3. 22 |
Textual Features | Katherine Philips | In On the Welsh Language, KP
praises the early British queen Boadicea
and anticipates something of the tone of Thomas Gray
's The Bard. It is unlikely that she learned Welsh (though her... |
Textual Production | Rosemary Sutcliff | RS
structured a historical novel for young people in a new manner for her in The Capricorn Bracelet, a saga of six generations of an originally Roman family in the Roman colony of Britannia... |
Textual Production | Rosemary Sutcliff | For the first time RS
chose a woman as her central hero-figure in Song for a Dark Queen, about Boudicca or Boadicea
, queen of the Iceni, who was one of the most successful... |
Textual Production | Anna Mary Howitt | John Ruskin
's severe censure of a painting intended as her masterpiece (a heroic depiction of Boadiceabrooding over her wrongs, drawn from Barbara Leigh Smith
) Lee, Amice. Laurels & Rosemary: The Life of William and Mary Howitt. Oxford University Press, 1955. 216 Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989. 43 Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952. 205 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Antonia Fraser | This book (which covers the span from the queen of its title
to the recent or current regimes of Margaret Thatcher
, Golda Meir
, and Indira Gandhi
) looks historically at the inbuilt contradictions... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Lennox | The Lady's Museum is rich in illustrations (and boasts one musical score). Its frontispiece (copied by The Lady's Magazine of 1789) shows a studious woman from whom Cupid's dart is being deflected. Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press, 2018. 203 |
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