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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Sheila Kaye-Smith | From childhood SKS
was fervently religious. Her parents were Anglicans
(though her mother had been brought up a Presbyterian
). Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne. 18 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Vernon Lee | VL
's topics in this volume include Emerson
, Tolstoy
, Nietzsche
, William James
, H. G. Wells
, Ruskin
, and many other French and English authors and critics. Lee had dismissed Ruskin... |
Textual Features | Vernon Lee | In The Economic Parasitism of WomenVL
argues that women's socially-produced dependence on men has caused them to degenerate mentally and physically. She opens with an ironically-inflected confession of her own previous resistance to militant... |
Textual Features | Wyndham Lewis | The story reflects Nietzsche
's belief that the artist must show mastery over women. Rebecca West
gave it a favourable review. Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research. 310 |
politics | Dora Marsden | DM
judged The Ego and His Ownthe most powerful book that has ever emerged from a single mind. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 104, 121 |
Textual Features | Dora Marsden | |
Textual Features | Carson McCullers | This includes much fascinating detail about the circumstances and forms of her earliest writing, and paints a vivid picture of her underlying attitudes: the longing for an exotic world quite unlike the familiar terrain of... |
Textual Production | Edith Mary Moore | She signed an agreement with George Allen
on 1 October 1909 which gave her an advance on royalties of £100. However, by early May 1914 the firm was in receivership and the Receiver wrote to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Willa Muir | They met for the first time in Glasgow in September 1918, at a gathering at a mutual friend's flat. At this time Willa was twenty-eight and happy with her independence. I thought I had been... |
Education | Tillie Olsen | At home the Lerner children learned Yiddish songs and made up silly plays. Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press. 27 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy Richardson | Her essays in this journal reflect her wide literary and social knowledge; they include Days with Walt Whitman, Thearchy and Socialism, Down with the Lords, and Nietzsche. Hanscombe, Gillian. The Art of Life: Dorothy Richardson and the Development of Feminist Consciousness. Peter Owen. 190 |
Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich
through Jane Austen
, Emily
and Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot |
Family and Intimate relationships | Henry Handel Richardson | A closer friendship formed in Leipzig was that with a young Scotsman, George Robertson
, who was studying for a PhD in German literature. He reawakened Richardson's interest in books and writing, particularly when she... |
Intertextuality and Influence | George Bernard Shaw | GBS
's Man and Superman, a Nietzsche
an romantic comedy, was first publicly presented (without the third act) by the Stage Society
at the Court Theatre
in London. Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press. xxiv |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | G. B. Stern | Her early novels combine a strain of intellectualism (characters discuss Shaw
and Nietzsche
) with a self-conscious modernity (attention to issues and to sophistication of tone). She was held to belong to the stream of... |
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