Anna Comnena

Standard Name: Comnena, Anna

Connections

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Intertextuality and Influence	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	The authorial voice is forthright about the poet's own desire to be a literary trail-blazer for womankind, and she is already defining that task in terms of rejection of the domestic. She also has a...
Textual Features	Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins	EST wrote a verse dedication of this novel to the poet William Hayley , with allusions which show her to be well acquainted with his writings. She addresses him as a patron of writing women...
Textual Features	Julia Kristeva	Again Stéphanie Delacourt and Northrop Rilsky, held tightly under the control of a third-person narrator, address themselves to mystery-solving. JK quotes Delacourt, who revels in neologisms, taking as her motto Je me voyage (I travel...

Timeline

By 1148

Anna Comnena finished the fifteen books of her Alexias, a history of the career and reign of her father, Alexius Comnenus , Emperor of Constantinople.

“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.

Newman, Barbara. “Byzantine Laments”. London Review of Books, Vol.

, No. 5, 2 Mar. 2017, p. 21.

1780

In his poem An Essay on History, in three epistles to Edward Gibbon, William Hayley praised the ancient historian Anna Comnena .

Tomlins, Elizabeth Sophia. The Victim of Fancy. Pickering and Chatto, 2009.

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By early October 1930

London publisher Gerald Howe issued a composite biography entitled Six Women of the World, which had previously made up six volumes in a Representative Women series, 1927-9.

Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.

TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.

1497 (9 October 1930): 802

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