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Cultural formation | Mary Renault | |
Dedications | Ruth Padel | She dedicated this book to Myles Burnyeat
, Padel, Ruth. Whom Gods Destroy. Princeton University Press, 1995. v Padel, Ruth. Whom Gods Destroy. Princeton University Press, 1995. xiv |
Education | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | Later she became interested in Plato
. In 1886 she was one of a group of women who began Greek classes at the Hampstead home of poet and scholar William Cory
, her longtime friend... |
Education | Frances Reynolds | |
Education | Virginia Woolf | Virginia read Aeschylus
, Homer
, Sophocles
, and Plato
, among others, with Clara Pater. In 1902, however, the Cambridge-educated Janet Case
, who was a feminist as well as a classicist, took over... |
Education | Anne Carson | Despite her distaste for the survey courses and canonical English poets, AC
eventually re-enrolled at the University of Toronto in 1970 , in the classics program. As an undergraduate she was particularly drawn to passionate... |
Education | Elizabeth Inchbald | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Vernon Lee | Dedicated to the author's companion and fellow writer Mary Robinson
, this volume is another collection of essays, some previously published. Here Lee begins to dismiss the moral implications and social conditions within and around... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Doris Lessing | DL
takes her title from Plato
's allegory about cave-dwellers who never see the outside world, but believe they can understand it from observing the shadows thrown on the walls of their cave. She applies... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edna Lyall | Mondisfield Hall, depicted here as it was during the Restoration, is based on Badmondisfield (or Badmondesfield) Hall, an Elizabethan moated manor at Wickhambrook in Suffolk, where as a girl EL
used to stay with... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Francis | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | The stories begin with Jack and the Beanstalk and include Bluebeard and Cinderella. EPW
is not over-respectful of her sources. In her Jack and the Beanstalk Mrs Jones (the giant's wife) donates her late... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | In shaping her thought, her father
's influence was primary. Later influences on her thinking and therefore also in her novels were provided by Dostoevsky
in particular, by existentialist philosophy as embodied in Sartre
... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Gilding | Late in the volume come some poems in jaunty quatrains. The speaker in The Search, having vainly pursued truth, first in the countryside, then in cities, courts, the army, etc., then thought I was... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Bruce Glasier | KBG
was influenced early in her writing career by authors such as Walt Whitman
, Edward Carpenter
, and Plato
. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited, 1971. 69 |