Dawson, Jennifer. “Impressions of Iris Murdoch, Teacher, in 1951”. The Ship, Vol.
91
, pp. 52-3. 52
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Occupation | Iris Murdoch | Dawson later recalled her as blithe and insouciant about set-texts and exams, preferring to roam over philosophical and literary ideas from Plato
to Arthur Koestler
. Dawson, Jennifer. “Impressions of Iris Murdoch, Teacher, in 1951”. The Ship, Vol. 91 , pp. 52-3. 52 |
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
... |
Textual Features | Iris Murdoch | In this text, she sets out a Platonic conception of art derived from Plato
's Philebus, Phaedrus, and Symposium which explains his rejection of poets in his Republic. |
Dedications | Ruth Padel | She dedicated this book to Myles Burnyeat
, Padel, Ruth. Whom Gods Destroy. Princeton University Press. v Padel, Ruth. Whom Gods Destroy. Princeton University Press. xiv |
Occupation | Walter Pater | WP
continued to contribute essays on literature and Renaissance art to periodicals, adding Macmillan's Magazine to his list of employers. 1885 saw the publication of his novel Marius the Epicurean. Two years later, he... |
Cultural formation | Mary Renault | |
Education | Frances Reynolds | |
Textual Features | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | This poem is written in couplets (the interspersed hymns are not by MAS
). Central characters include a Polish nobleman and his two sons (a child and a young adult), the actual Anna Nitschmann
(1715-60... |
Textual Production | Mary Shelley | When Mary first met Percy Shelley
, he was about to embark on serious publication. Between 1813 and 1821, he published several major works, including Queen Mab, Epipsychidion, The Cenci, and his... |
Textual Features | Mary Shelley | This novel has an epigraph from John Ford
's The Lover's Melancholy, 1629, about the storms and turmoil of human life. Shelley, Mary. Lodore. Editor Vargo, Lisa, Broadview. 47 |
Textual Production | Mary Shelley | She found this work on illegible and sometimes unfinished manuscripts confusing and tantalising. Conger, Syndy McMillen. “Multivocality in Mary Shelley’s Unfinished Memoirs of Her Father”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 9 , No. 3, pp. 303-22. 305 |
Textual Production | Percy Bysshe Shelley | PBS
made (and Mary Shelley
transcribed) the first English translation of Plato
's Symposium to attempt even approximate honesty about its homosexual content. Gonda, Caroline. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Lodore</span> and Fanny Derham’s Story”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, pp. 329-44. 337 |
Publishing | May Sinclair | She went on publishing there occasionally for sixteen years: stories, sonnets, a long narrative poem, translation, and further essays on such topics as Plato
and Benjamin Jowett
. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press. 26n38 |
Textual Production | Muriel Spark | She resisted pressure from Robin Baird-Smith
to change the title, which refers to Plato
's Socratic
dialogue on the nature of love. Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 491, 495-6 |
Publishing | Harriet Taylor | HT
's reviews include an appraisal of Sarah Austin
's translation Tour of a German Prince, which appeared in May 1832. Taylor, Harriet. The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill. Editors Jacobs, Jo Ellen and Paula Harms Payne, Indiana University Press. 179n39 Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press. 40 |
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