Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall.
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George Frederick Handel
Standard Name: Handel, George Frederick
Used Form: George Frideric Handel
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Patricia Beer | This poem's subject is the love-affair of Semele with Jove. Semele wished to see Jove in his true, not assumed form; when he complied and appeared as godhead she was burned to death in his... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Tollet | Sir Tanfield Leman
in the Monthly Review approached this volume with some gendered condescension (which may be the explanation for his finding ET
by implication excessively serious). He pronounced that she was not in the... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Julia Young | The title-page has two epigraphs. The first begins with two lines from Milton
's Il Penseroso (perhaps alluding to its musical setting by Handel
), which go on to link the nightingale with Anna... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Savage | He had been organist at the parish church of Finchley, and had sung in Handel
's operas and oratorios. His new position meant the choirboys lodged in his house. William got excellent results from his... |
| Education | Anna Eliza Bray | Her father taught her music and she had the privilege of learning to play on a family treasure, a spinet originally belonging to Handel
. |
| Characters | Jeanette Winterson | The novel's three apparently unconnected characters are breast surgeon Handel (erstwhile boy chorister, castrato, and Catholic priest; not the same as yet reminiscent of George Frederick Handel
), Picasso (a young woman whose family opposes... |
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