HW
was, according to her editor Felicitas Corrigan
, [s]teeped in the Bible by heredity and upbringing.
Waddell, Helen. “Acknowledgements; Note; Introduction”. Between Two Eternities, edited by Felicitas Corrigan, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1993, pp. viii - ix, 1.
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Her feeling for religion was even stronger than her feeling for literature: when she first, at about...
Felicitas Corrigan
believes this collection, overshadowed by war, is a self- or soul-revelation.
“Introduction”. More Latin Lyrics from Virgil to Milton, edited by Felicitas Corrigan, translated by. Helen Waddell, Victor Gollancz, 1980, pp. 11-33.
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Occupation
Helen Waddell
For the next several years HW
lived at home with her stepmother, as was expected of a middle-class young woman. She made herself an independent publishing scholar during this time and kept up a busy...
Publishing
Helen Waddell
HW
's sister preserved all her letters, and a chaotic mass of other manuscript material. Meg would have burned these if Monica Blackett
had not wished to use them in her biography.
Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable, 1973.
RG
wrote part of this novel in a caravan after her house burned down. She worked on it for five years, and her new part-time secretary retyped it many times.
Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan, 1989.
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She wrote in response...
Textual Production
Helen Waddell
Dame Felicitas Corrigan
edited further translations of poetry (with some striking original pieces) by HW
in More Latin Lyrics from Virgil
to Milton.
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Waddell, Helen. “Acknowledgements; Note; Introduction”. Between Two Eternities, edited by Felicitas Corrigan, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1993, pp. viii - ix, 1.
Waddell, Helen. Between Two Eternities. Editor Corrigan, Felicitas, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1993.
“Introduction”. More Latin Lyrics from Virgil to Milton, edited by Felicitas Corrigan, translated by. Helen Waddell, Victor Gollancz, 1980, pp. 11-33.
More Latin Lyrics from Virgil to Milton. Editor Corrigan, Felicitas, Translator Waddell, Helen, Victor Gollancz, 1976.
More Latin Lyrics from Virgil to Milton. Editor Corrigan, Felicitas, Translator Waddell, Helen, Victor Gollancz, 1980.