Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press, 1994.
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death | Cicely Bulstrode | She was buried two days later, on 6 August 1609. At least two of her former detractors, Jonson
and Donne
, wrote verse commemorations after her death. |
Education | Dora Carrington | Carrington began to alter herself in other ways also. During her first term at the Slade she began to go by her surname only. Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press, 1994. 13 |
Education | Elizabeth Jennings | At university as at school, she was a voracious reader of poetry, feeling the influence in particular of John Donne
, Gerard Manley Hopkins
, and Robert Graves
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. under A Poet's Choice |
Education | Catherine Cookson | The house had no books and when a lodger brought in Shakespeare, Milton
, and Donne
, they were pronounced unsuitable for a child. CC
did read a Shakespeare
sonnet at about this age and... |
Education | Catherine Cookson | As a young adult CC
took on her own education. With varying degrees of success she studied grammar, elocution, French, and the violin. She also discovered the public library. Colleagues at work got her to... |
Education | Nan Shepherd | After attending Cults Primary School, followed by Aberdeen High School for Girls
, NS
received her MA (a first degree in Scotland) in 1915 from the University of Aberdeen
. Her studies in English laid... |
Education | Michèle Roberts | She chose the medieval option. Her tutor was Rosemary Woolf
, and she studied no authors later than Shakespeare
. She reports the results of this in two different ways. In one version the course... |
Education | Elaine Feinstein | She later felt she was lucky to be a postwar student; before then, she would have been as out of place at Newnham as Amy Levy
. Christianity was everywhere Feinstein, Elaine. It Goes with the Territory. Alma, 2013. 37 |
Education | Anne Ridler | She lived in a King's College hostel in Queensborough Terrace near Hyde Park,London. The course included lectures on history and literature. The distinguished scholar Jack Isaacs
lectured on Shakespeare
, Donne
, and Milton |
Education | Adrienne Rich | |
Education | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | ENC
went on to receive an MA in English literature from University College
, Cork. She says that her generation was brought up on poets like Donne
and Hopkins
. McDonald, Roxanne. “Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin”. Guide to Literary Masters & Their Works, Salem Press, Jan. 2007. Bryce, Colette. “Making a Poem: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin”. Mslexia, Vol. 44 , 2010, p. 22. 22 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Finch | The court decided in favour of the children, and Anne subsequently moved to London where she lived with her paternal grandmother, Bridget, Lady Kingsmill, for most of her childhood. Lady Kingsmill had been a friend... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Cicely Bulstrode | Despite the eminent respectability of these friends, the unmarried CB
acquired a reputation for promiscuity. Poems by Sir John Roe
and Ben Jonson
, and a letter from John Donne
, make casual charges connecting... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Lady Southwell | The Southwell family had connections with the court and with London literary society. Anne Southwell's mother-in-law, Alice
(née Cornwallis), who was a cousin of the essayist William Cornwallis
, may have enabled Anne to meet... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Gerard | This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine |