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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | E. Arnot Robertson | The background to this dense, richly-packed book includes a number of defining political events: the career of Toussaint L'Ouverture
(discovered by Douglas through studying Wordsworth
at school), the Irish Civil War; the trial of Sacco |
Textual Production | Michèle Roberts | MR
's Fair Exchange, a historical novel, dealt with episodes in the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft
, William Wordsworth
, and Annette Vallon
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Newman, Jenny. “Michèle Roberts”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Arnold, pp. 119-34. 130 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Again, ATR
's stay at Chateau Bréquerecque, Boulogne, in 1854 provided the basis for the novel's setting. Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, p. various pages. 28 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Ridler | Anne Bradby (later AR
) was still at school when she first met Charles Williams
, the poet, Christian apologist, novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a friend of her headmistress, and came to lecture... |
Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | She was invited to write for the magazine by John Middleton Murry
, who founded it in 1923, though both he and Katherine Mansfield
had published negative reviews of earlier volumes of Pilgrimage. Richardson, Dorothy. Windows on Modernism: Selected Letters of Dorothy Richardson. Editor Fromm, Gloria G., University of Georgia Press. 41-2, 90, 212 |
Textual Production | Ruth Rendell | RR
published A Guilty Thing Surprised, a novel portraying an incestuous relationship between a brother and sister. The title is a quotation from William Wordsworth
's Ode on the Intimations of Immortality. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. 1970 Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 87. Gale Research. 311 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ruth Rendell | The novel contains particularly sophisticated subplots, including the intense rivalry between Burden's teenaged children, and Elizabeth's and Wexford's parallel fears of growing old. As usual in RR
's work, the novel gives an important role... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Kathleen Raine | KR
's father, George Raine
(the son of a coal-miner in County Durham, and a graduate of Durham University), was an English master and housemaster at the County High School in Ilford, a lover of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Radcliffe | Anna Seward
, in letters which were to be published in AR
's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 221-2 |
Friends, Associates | Adelaide Procter | AP
's parents entertained a circle of well-known literary personages, including Leigh Hunt
, William Hazlitt
, Thomas Moore
, Wordsworth
, Tennyson
, Longfellow
, and Henry James
. Intimates of the household included... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Anne Porden | EAP
was projecting an essay periodical in 1815 (she had the first two numbers planned) when this long poem, written at sixteen, appeared. At about the same time she was reading Wordsworth'sRecluse and poems... |
Literary responses | Jean Plaidy | Irish critic Colm Tóibín
, who at fourteen used to pretend to be the doomed, charismatic queen, feels that of all the many writers who have treated Mary in fiction, from Burns
, Wordsworth
... |
Literary responses | Laetitia Pilkington | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
wrote in her copy of the London reprint of LP
's Memoirs, as good Poetry as Pope
s [sic]. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, and Laetitia Pilkington. “Annotation”. The Memoirs of Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington. |
Reception | Laetitia Pilkington | Wordsworth
chose from her works eleven melancholy and religious couplets from Sorrow, for inclusion in his manuscript anthology presented to Lady Mary Lowther
at Christmas 1819. He omitted the later part of the poem... |
Textual Features | Katherine Philips | The death of her infant son, probably in June 1655, drew from KP
two heart-rending poems, one formally entitled Epitaph. On Hector Phillips. At St Sith's Church, the other On the death of my... |
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