Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Smythies | In a critical preface HS
reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford
or Edward Bulwer Lytton
). The two groups of lovers and... |
Author summary | Robert Southey | |
Textual Production | Muriel Spark | MS
published Tribute to Wordsworth
: A Miscellany of Opinion for the Centenary of the Poet's Death, a work on Wordsworth's reception in which she dealt with the twentieth century and Derek Stanford
with the nineteenth. Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press. 19 Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 109 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | The title-page quotes William Wordsworth
. At the beginning of the collection a male narrator, London-born with a Welsh mother, travels after his mother's death to Chirk (her native place). The tales' framework is desultory... |
Textual Features | Freya Stark | Despite the generality of her introduction, Stark relates her particular experiences in Aden, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Transjordan, and Iraq. She depicts the Arab character through detailed descriptions and through... |
Education | Freya Stark | Family friends sympathetic to Freya's feelings of entrapment at Dronero sent her gifts of books: she was especially passionate about Shakespeare
, Sir Walter Scott
, Byron
, Keats
, Kipling
, Shelley
, Wordsworth |
Friends, Associates | Mary Stockdale | MS
claimed that William Wordsworth
was her friend. Stockdale, Mary. The Mirror of the Mind. John Stockdale. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Stone | The third volume of Miss Pen and her Niece contained a short story, Sir Eustace de Lucie, a rewriting of Wordsworth
's poem The Horn of Egremont Castle. Set in the medieval period... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Strutt | The first chapter-heading comes from one of Wordsworth
's Lucy poems; eighteenth-century poets are also quoted. Unattributed chapter-headings, as well as verses by characters in the novel, are probably by ES
herself. The protagonist, Genevieve... |
Education | Anna Swanwick | |
Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | |
Friends, Associates | Algernon Charles Swinburne | The twelve-year-old Swinburne met Wordsworth
in September 1849 while he was on holiday with his family. The writer Elizabeth Sewell
was among the family party travelling that year. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | In London in 1824 she had a socially unsuccessful meeting with Wordsworth
, who was by now a thorough reactionary in politics. He went to some pains to snub her; she refused to notice this... |
Textual Production | Emma Tennant | Among the novels where ET
highlights gender roles by reworking well-known stories, Alice Fell, 1980, deals with the Greek myth of Persephone under a title borrowed from William Wordsworth
. |
Occupation | Alfred Tennyson | AT
became poet laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth
, who had died that April. Ricks, Christopher. Tennyson. Macmillan. 232 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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