Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | Without ever owning the complete works of Théophile Gautier
, Alphonse Daudet
, Shakespeare
, Byron
, or Swinburne
, she read bits and pieces of them all, and they helped to shape her style... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Violet Hunt | The novel's title is taken from A. C. Swinburne
's poem Before the Mirror, 1869; VH
also includes a quotation from the poem in her book's preliminary pages. Hunt, Violet. White Rose of Weary Leaf. W. Heinemann, 1908. 8 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Ogle | The novel ends with mention of the rioting rapids of the Tyne, a phrase that Swinburne
borrowed to end his Tale of Balen (1896). qtd. in Myers, Alan. “Myers Literary Guide to North-East England”. Northumbria University: Centre for Northern Studies, 2004. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ada Leverson | In this novel Valentia Wyburn, another clever woman, has been five years married and has a lover (though their sexual relationship is never particularised) besides her husband. But she breaks with him when she discovers... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Sitwell | ES
loved Christina Rossetti
from her childhood, and later thoroughly admired Gertrude Stein
. As a young woman, however, she believed: Women's poetry, with the exception of Sappho
. . . and Goblin MarketChristina Rossetti
and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amy Levy | AL
acknowledged the influence on her poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, Goethe
, Heine
, Robert Browning
, Swinburne
(whose poem Félise she answered in Félise to Her Lover), and James Thomson
(the... |
Literary responses | Mary Louisa Molesworth | MLM
had the habit of reading her stories to her own children from manuscripts tucked inside the covers of printed books, so that she would be able to solicit their opinion and know them to... |
Literary responses | E. Nesbit | When EN
asked Bernard Shaw
to review the first Lays and Legends for To-Day, he responded with a pretend review contained in a letter, a masterpiece in faint praise: The author has a fair... |
Literary responses | Mathilde Blind | The article brought her some prominence. Swinburne
found the new readings most precious. Swinburne, Algernon Charles. The Swinburne Letters. Editor Lang, Cecil Y., Yale University Press, 1959–1962, 6 vols. 2: 116 |
Literary responses | Sarah Williams | Geraldine Jewsbury
wrote a review of Twilight Hours for the Athenæum in which she describes SW
's work as promising, but unfulfilled and melancholy. The review explains that her life . . . seems to... |
Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | CR
's critical reputation stood very high from the appearance of Goblin Market, although she was not a popular poet. H. Buxton Forman
in Our Living Poets, 1871, got her middle name wrong... |
Literary responses | Emily Brontë | This bowdlerized version of EB
's novel and her poetry circulated widely and received many reviews. H. F. Chorley
in the Athenæum pronounced the re-publication of the two novels an illustration of English female genius... |
Literary responses | Emily Lawless | Algernon Swinburne
wrote Lawless a gushing letter on reading Grania, describing it as one of the most exquisite and perfect works in the language—unique in pathos, humour, and convincing persuasion of truthfulness. qtd. in Sichel, Edith. “Emily Lawless”. Nineteenth Century, Vol. 76 , July 1914, pp. 80-100. 85 |
Literary responses | Anna Steele | The Academy gave Condoned a largely negative review, arguing that Steele had with the odd lack of judgment which not seldom distinguishes lady novelists, done nearly all she could to spoil her book. The Academy. 11 (3 February 1877): 91 |
Literary responses | George Eliot | On the whole reviewers were enthusiastic (E. S. Dallas
began his notice in the Times, George Eliot is as great as ever qtd. in Carroll, David, editor. George Eliot: The Critical Heritage. Barnes and Noble, 1971. 131 |
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