Innes, Christopher. Modern British Drama, 1890-1990. Cambridge University Press.
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Textual Production | Naomi Mitchison | After her husband recovered from his head injury and went back to the war, NM
(pregnant with her first child) became a convert to the League of Nations Society
. She set out to further... |
Textual Production | Susan Tweedsmuir | In July 1946 there appeared ST
's first edited volume of her late husband's work: The Clearing House, a Survey of One Man's Mind: A Selection from the Writings of John Buchan, with a... |
Textual Features | George Bernard Shaw | Classicist Gilbert Murray
appeared as the character Cusins. Innes, Christopher. Modern British Drama, 1890-1990. Cambridge University Press. 19 |
Textual Features | Jane Ellen Harrison | Departing from studies of the vegetation spirit undertaken by such scholars as J. G. Frazer
and Wilhelm Mannhardt
, Harrison argues for the significance of the year spirit as the embodiment not of the formal... |
Reception | Jane Ellen Harrison | Six months after JEH
's death, she was commemorated at the inaugural Jane Harrison Lecture, delivered by her colleague and friend Gilbert Murray
at Newnham College
, Cambridge, where Harrison had studied and taught. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 13-14 |
politics | Dorothy Wellesley | Her fellow signatories included Violet Bonham Carter
, Stafford Cripps
, archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans
, historian H. A. L. Fisher
, scientist-philosopher Julian Huxley
, sculptor Laura Knight
, writers Edith Lyttelton
and J. B. Priestley |
Performance of text | Florence Farr | As well as writing for the stage, FF
composed music for it, notably for Harley Granville-Barker
's production of Gilbert Murray
's translation of Hippolytus by Euripides
, which was performed in May 1902. She... |
Occupation | Florence Farr | FF
composed the music and led the chorus for Harley Granville-Barker
's production of Euripides
' Hippolytus, translated by Gilbert Murray
and performed at the Court Theatre
. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe. 111 |
Occupation | Christopher St John | CSJ
had performed at a private party as a child, cross-dressed, by singing a comic popular song. As Christabel Marshall she had performed with the Stage Society
at the Garrick Theatre
in London in Gilbert Murray |
Occupation | Florence Farr | The lecture proved quite popular, and Clifford's Inn had to turn people away. Over the following years, FF
put on many such readings, performing works by Homer
, Shelley
, Yeats
, Lady Gregory
... |
Occupation | Jane Ellen Harrison | While highly innovative and thus sometimes controversial, JEH
's work was supported, as well as challenged, by a wide range of scholarly and critical sources. At Cambridge, she collaborated with colleagues including William Ridgeway
,... |
Literary responses | H. D. | T. S. Eliot
wrote that HD's versions of these choruses were allowing for errors and even occasional omissions of difficult passages, much nearer to both Greek and English than those of the then renowned scholar... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Ellen Harrison | Though her influence is not always explicitly acknowledged, JEH
made a profound impact on twentieth-century classical scholarship. Her work colours studies not only by Gilbert Murray
and Francis Cornford
(discussed above), but also by E. R. Dodds |
Intertextuality and Influence | Violet Hunt | VH
was fascinated by the mysterious throughout her life. As a small girl, she loved to listen to her mother talk about the White Lady, a spirit haunting the kitchen of Margaret Hunt
's... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Rathbone | This work was an extension of a declaration released by the press on 31 January 1937. In that declaration, signatories including the Duchess of Atholl
, Winston Churchill
, David Lloyd George
, Robert Cecil |