qtd. in
Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury, 1998.
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Education | Stella Gibbons | SG
learned to read fairly late, but then read voraciously. The glowing Eastern landscapes and brilliant figures qtd. in Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury, 1998. 20 |
Education | Olivia Manning | At home Olivia was encouraged to love poetry, learned to read by the time she was four, and was later subjected to piano lessons which taught her nothing. As a teenager and thinking of herself... |
Education | Elma Napier | In spite of the fact that her family did not value literature as much as games, and that her mother had specific ideas about what girls should read, EN
devoured every book she could get... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mrs Alexander | Her daughter Ida Hector
became H. Rider Haggard
's secretary. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Friends, Associates | Mary Anne Barker | MAB
became a friend to the young Rider Haggard
, and worked to promote his early writing. She mentions with respect many of the distinguished military and civil servants of the Crown whom she got... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Robins | ER
used her travels in Alaska as a basis for several short stories and adventure novels. One story, Monica's Village, parodies Rider Haggard
's popular adventure novel She. John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995. 131-2 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Olivia Manning | |
Leisure and Society | May Crommelin | MC
was a member of the Albemarle Club
. Who Was Who in Literature, 1906-1934. Gale Research, 1979, 2 vols. vol. 1 |
Literary responses | Elspeth Huxley | British Book News considered that EH
had drawn to good effect on an intimate knowledge of African landscape, politics, and race issues and displayed great narrative skill, though a little lacking in psychological subtlety. British Book News. British Council. (1957): 451 |
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 | Florence Dixie | Her most vociferous opponents now included John Robinson
, editor of the Natal Mercury (who chose to interpret her as a mere mouthpiece for Bishop Colenso
), and in time most of the British Tory... |
Literary responses | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | In the TLSE. E. Mavrogordato
pronounced The Lost Worlda glorious story; he had enjoyed nothing of this kind so much, he wrote, since H. Rider Haggard
's She, 1887. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 562 (17 October 1912): 443 |
Literary responses | Flora Annie Steel | An early study of FAS
's writings was A Star of India by Daya Patwardhan
, complete with a bibliographical list of her works and investigation of her real-life sources. Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann, 1981. 69 |
Occupation | Marie Corelli | From 1886, when she published her first novel, A Romance of Two Worlds, onward, MC
produced books at great speed. She was an instant success, and throughout her life she sold approximately 100,000 books... |
politics | Florence Dixie | According to Brian Roberts
, FDoriginated the scheme for providing seaside holiday camps for poor children. She opposed cruelty to animals, blood-sports (which she had once enjoyed), and vivisection. She supported Rationalism, dress reform... |