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death | Jane Austen | JA
died at Winchester. The unusual symptoms of her illness have been read as suggesting Addison's Disease, or more recently cancer or tuberculosis. An article in Lupus: Science & Medicine in April 2021 argues... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Austen | JA
's biographer Claire Tomalin
lists those women writers who were most important to her, for learning rather than for mockery, as Charlotte Lennox
, Frances Burney
, Charlotte Smith
, Maria Edgeworth
, and... |
Literary responses | Mary Wollstonecraft | Virginia Woolf
celebrated Wollstonecraft's immortality in 1929; Marjorie Bowen
wrote of her critically in 1937 yet entitled her work This Shining Woman. The future anthropologist Ruth Benedict
, with her own career yet to... |
Literary responses | Muriel Spark | Her friend Graham Greene
hastened to offer his usual compliment of best-since-Memento Mori—this time after reading only the first three pages. Greene, Graham. Graham Greene. A Life in Letters. Editor Greene, Richard, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. 399 |
Literary responses | Katherine Mansfield | Reviews mentioned KM
's caustic and observant descriptions, her freedom from sentimentality, and her peculiar touch of impishness. Some, however, found her coarse. Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982. 129 |
Literary responses | Katherine Mansfield | Claire Tomalin
singles out the unfinished and fragmentary A Married Man's Story for its brilliant and sinister qualities. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Edna O'Brien | EOB
is known as a writer who appeals to academic, popular, and other audiences. Her work has been appreciated by contemporaries, including John Berger
, Mary Gordon
, and Claire Tomalin
. Wheeler, Kathleen. A Guide to Twentieth-Century Women Novelists. Blackwell, 1997. 205 |
Reception | Muriel Spark | Graham Greene
wrote to tell Spark that this was her best book since Memento Mori (as he was to do with several later titles as well). Greene, Graham. Graham Greene. A Life in Letters. Editor Greene, Richard, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. 309-10 |
Reception | Cassandra Cooke | The Critical Review offered a plot-summary of Battleridge and said that the grasp of seventeenth-century manners was good, but the work is not very amusing; and, in point of composition, it is despicable. qtd. in Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 778 |
Textual Production | Katherine Mansfield | Scholar Claire Tomalin
suspects that this refusal had to do with KM
's unacknowledged debt to Chekhov
in The Child-Who-Was-Tired. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Jane Austen | JA
laid aside her fragmentary, unfinished novel The Watsons. Critic Jan Fergus
thinks that she probably never went back to it after Anne Lefroy
's death. Biographer Claire Tomalin
thinks it was her father |
Textual Production | Anne Devlin | AD
wrote for Free Range Films
the screenplay of Mrs. Jordan
's Profession, based on a biography by Claire Tomalin
of the eighteenth-century comedy actress and morganatic wife of a royal duke. Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press, 1997. 95 “Anne Devlin”. Alan Brodie Representation. |
Textual Production | Elaine Feinstein | EF
returned to the genre of short biography by contributing (with Margaret Drabble
, Claire Tomalin
, and others) to Breaking Bounds: Six Newnham Lives, published by Newnham College
in 2014. She wrote on... |
Textual Production | Eliza Fenwick | In this book product placement is even further highlighted than in some of EF
's other books for children. Paul, Lissa. “Eliza Fenwick—Forgotten in Histories of Schooling”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) 35th Annual Conference, Oxford, 5 Jan. 2006. |
Textual Production | Mary Wollstonecraft | Biographer Claire Tomalin
thinks that MW
worked in spring 1795 at editing Marie-Jeanne Roland
's Memoirs, and that this explains why the second edition of the book which Johnson
published is so far superior... |
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