Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
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Literary responses | Ann Radcliffe | Anna Seward
, in letters which were to be published in AR
's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999. 221-2 |
Literary responses | Rosemary Sutcliff | The Economist reviewed Black Ships, finding it intellectually taxing for children, but useful in sorting out some of Homer
's complications and digressions. Lawton, Anthony. Rosemary Sutcliff. http://rosemarysutcliff.com/. |
Literary responses | Frances Browne | George Croly
in the Dublin Review also focused on FB
's blindness rather than on her writing. He reprinted the book's preface almost in its entirety as one of several other case studies on the... |
Literary responses | Mildred Cable | The reviews of the Through Jade Gate were generally favourable. Lewis Gannett
of the New York Herald Tribune enacted a victory over the impulse to condescend: Three white-haired spinsters, preaching as they went—and they tell... |
Literary responses | Sarah Chapone | Mary Delany
said SCwould shine in an assembly composed of Tully
s, Homer
s, and Milton
s. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Virginia Woolf | Erich Auerbach
chose a passage from early in To the Lighthouse, which he calls The Brown Stocking, to close his influential work Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, 1946 (which... |
Literary responses | Sappho | Despite the paucity of surviving material, Sappho (though not quite the earliest of the Greek lyric poets) is sometimes seen as heading the lyric tradition, as Homer
heads the epic tradition. Sappho, and Andrew R. Burn. Lyrics in the Original Greek. Translator Barnstone, Willis, New York University Press, 1965. 176 Burn, Andrew R. et al. “Introduction”. Lyrics in the Original Greek, translated by. Willis Barnstone, New York University Press, 1965, p. xvii - xxxi. xvii and n1 |
Literary responses | Gillian Allnutt | Adam Thorpe
picked this as a book of the year for the Times Literary Supplement: Allnutt's wonderful poems allow in ever more silence, figured on the page by a double space between lines and... |
Literary responses | Alice Walker | This book was hammered by Michiko Kakutani
in the New York Times as a compendium of inanities. qtd. in White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004. 457 |
Occupation | Florence Farr | The lecture proved quite popular, and Clifford's Inn had to turn people away. Over the following years, FF
put on many such readings, performing works by Homer
, Shelley
, Yeats
, Lady Gregory
... |
Occupation | Anne-Thérèse de Lambert | Among the subjects most often canvassed at de Lambert's salon was the querelle des anciens et modernes (the battle of the ancients and moderns). Its leading figures (Anne Dacier
, translator of Homer
into... |
Occupation | Frances Arabella Rowden | FAR
was clearly a key element, perhaps the key element, in the success of the Hans Place school. She taught the general curriculum there for nearly twenty-five years, from its founding until 1818, and she... |
Occupation | Ella K. Maillart | EKM
went on from sailing as a girl at home to crewing for an English owner. At the beginning of 1922 her friend Miette acquired a 21-foot sloop named Perlette, which she and Kini sailed... |
Performance of text | Timberlake Wertenbaker | A play for young people by TW
opened at the “My Father, Odysseus, Interview with Timberlake Wertenbaker”. Unicorn. |
Publishing | Ruth Padel | In the same years as launching herself as a poet RP
began publishing as an academic critic. From her base in classical scholarship she turned her critical attention in 1985 towards the literature of modern... |
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