Raverat, Gwen. Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood. Faber and Faber.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Cornford | Frances's mother, Ellen Darwin
, a great-niece of the poet Wordsworth
, was a Fellow and lecturer in English literature at Newnham College
. Raverat, Gwen. Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood. Faber and Faber. 192 Cornford, Hugh et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, p. xxvii - xxxvii. xxvii |
Intertextuality and Influence | May Crommelin | The title-page quotes William Wordsworth
. This fairly conventional romance, in which MC
has not yet begun to exploit her gift for local colour, uses its young heroine and narrator to look at the problems... |
Friends, Associates | Thomas De Quincey | He was acquainted with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
and William Wordsworth
. His relationship with the latter was often troubled because Wordsworth disapproved of his opium use and his relationship with Margaret Simpson. Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company. De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Editor Lindop, Grevel, Oxford University Press. viii |
Friends, Associates | Thomas De Quincey | |
Residence | E. M. Delafield | |
Textual Production | E. M. Delafield | Its title comes from Wordsworth
's poem, The World is Too Much with Us. |
Education | Florence Dixie | Lady Florence was at first educated at home in Scotland. After a first, unsuccessful attempt to place her in a convent she had, in France, an Irish Catholic governess whom she calls Miss O'Leary... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Drabble | MD
's critical study Wordsworth addressed the work of a poet who, she says, has influenced her thinking. The British National Bibliography. Council of the British National Bibliography; British Library, Bibliographic Services Division. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Critic Deryn Rees-Jones
discerns widely varied influences on CAD
's work: mainstream English poets like Wordsworth
, Robert Browning
, T. S. Eliot
, Auden
, Dylan Thomas
, Larkin
, and Ted Hughes
... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Dunlop | Nearly a decade before Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point, but following William Wordsworth
's Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman and Felicia Hemans
's The Indian Woman's Lament... |
Occupation | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
Occupation | Anne Evans | Although she valued her verse as a vehicle to express her acute perceptions of pleasure and pain, AE
preferred music. She was bothered by what she called, quoting William Wordsworth
, the weight of too... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Fanshawe | One of the poems, a delightful Ode which imitates or parodies several well-known passages in various works by Gray
, was written not by CF
but by her friend Mary Berry
, some time before... |
Literary responses | Anne Finch | Barbara McGovern
has disposed (hopefully once and for all) of the mistaken story of Pope
's hostility to AF
. In fact, they shared a literary friendship which Finch found valuable. McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press. 102ff |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Fletcher | Her daughter Margaret
married Dr John Davy
, brother of the scientist Sir Humphry Davy
. Gill, Stephen. William Wordsworth. A Life. Clarendon. 410n58 |
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