Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol.
4
, pp. 12-35. 26
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Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Brookner | Again the protagonist, Kitty Maule, has a mixed national heritage: French/Russian and English. Again she is emotionally impoverished though academically successful; again she falls in love with a charismatic and unattainable man, Maurice Bishop. His... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Brookner | The daughter has found a notebook after her mother's death, but it contains very little information. Her opening sentence fully reveals the inadequacy of her knowledge. My mother read a lot, sighed a lot, and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Pamela Hansford Johnson | The novelist-narrator, Christine Jackson (whom PHJ
says she based on herself), looks back from the present day on her young life in Clapham in the 1920s. Her work as a shorthand-typist, her aspirations to be... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Pamela Hansford Johnson | Each takes as its central character a personage from Proust
, and for each PHJinvents a fresh yet perfectly harmonious setting for the scene: thus Mme Verdurin is shown entertaining the Germans in 1941... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Desai | AD
's work weaves together a wide range of cultural and literary references: the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgîtâ, as well as such European authors as E. M. Forster
, T. S. Eliot
, Dickinson |
Friends, Associates | Violet Trefusis | The Princesse
hosted a salon at 57 Avenue Henri-Martin attended by Anna de Noailles
, Cocteau
, Paul Valéry
, and Proust
, who incorporated some of his perceptions of the gatherings into A la... |
Friends, Associates | Vernon Lee | Back in Italy after the end of the First World War, VL
continued to read widely. She returned to Dante
, Shakespeare
, and Goethe
. She introduced herself to newer writings on philosophy, science... |
Fictionalization | Germaine de Staël | Benjamin Constant
, formerly the lover of GS
, represented her in his novel Adolphe as a woman whose mind was the most wide-ranging of any woman ever, and perhaps of any man, Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol. 4 , pp. 12-35. 26 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ada Leverson | AL
's three sisters all married socially prominent Jewish husbands. Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne. 19 Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago. 239-40 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Stevenson | |
Education | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | She read voraciously, preferring writers with the geographical rootedness which she herself lacked: George Eliot
, Thomas Hardy
, Charles Dickens
, and from beyond the English tradition Marcel Proust
, James Joyce
, Henry James |
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