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Education | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | |
Textual Features | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Her other topics include artists and male literary figures, including Carlyle
, Goethe
, Emerson
, and Shakespeare
. Fifteen poems in the collection are written about places, among them London, Birmingham, and... |
Literary responses | Amelia Opie | The Critical Review, which had praised AO
's earlier work, thought this novel equally well done, and that the description of the heroine's death could stand comparison with those of Richardson
's Clarissa or... |
Reception | Caroline Norton | Between the death of Southey
, the Poet Laureate, and the appointment of Wordsworth
as his successor, CN
wrote to the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel
, to request the position for herself. Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby. 220 |
Literary responses | Caroline Norton | The Athenæum pronounced in fairly sympathetic tones that this volume bore a pathetic and direct reference upon the position and fortunes of its writer, alluding to the bereavements enforced by inexorable laws that denied Norton... |
Intertextuality and Influence | E. Nesbit | The title, condensed from two lines in Wordsworth
's Ode on the Intimations of Immortality, alludes to the dimming and flattening of once-acute sensations. One of these poems says that Love can never be... |
Occupation | Iris Murdoch | Dawson later recalled her as blithe and insouciant about set-texts and exams, preferring to roam over philosophical and literary ideas from Plato
to Arthur Koestler
. Dawson, Jennifer. “Impressions of Iris Murdoch, Teacher, in 1951”. The Ship, Vol. 91 , pp. 52-3. 52 |
Leisure and Society | Hannah More | Once an omnivorous reader, HM
restricted her choice of books in later life, in line with her religious convictions. She delighted in William Cowper
as a poet whom I can read on Sunday. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 90 |
Intertextuality and Influence | L. M. Montgomery | |
Literary responses | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | For centuries LMWM
has been interpreted and re-interpreted, judged less often as writer than as an exemplar of the unacceptable female. Her fame and/or notoriety flourished during her lifetime, and posthumous publications kept it alive... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Russell Mitford | She wrote comments in letters about famous men, finding Thomas Campbella pretty little, delicate finical gentleman Pigrome, Stella. “Mary Russell Mitford”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Vol. 66 , Charles Lamb Society, pp. 53-62. 58 |
Literary responses | Edna St Vincent Millay | Her editor Eugene Saxton
wrote that the staff at Harper
were much moved by the emotional quality of the poems. Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House. 450 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Alice Meynell | AM
's associations with Aubrey de Vere
, Patmore
, and Meredith
were mutually beneficial. She shared with these poet-mentors the passion and facility for metrical and verbal analysis. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 19 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Alice Meynell | The forty poems date from the last five years before publication. Their styles are derivative. Song of the Day to the Night is reminiscent of Shelley
, Soeur Monique of Wordsworth
, An Unmarked Festival... |
Textual Production | Alice Meynell | AM
wrote introductions or prefaces to over twenty books. For Blackie
's Red Letter Library series alone she introduced Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's letters and poems (1896 and 1903), and works by Robert Browning
(1903),... |
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