Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Standard Name: Tolstoy, Lev Nikolaevich
Used Form: Leo Tolstoy

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Textual Production Clemence Dane
CD collaborated with Salka Viertel on a screenplay of Tolstoy 's Anna Karenina for Greta Garbo .
Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982.
10: 137
Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press, 1996.
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Textual Production Jean Plaidy
JP had begun writing some years before this first publication.
Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, 4 July 1991, pp. 23-4.
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During the 1930s she produced nine long novels, in which she tried to emulate her literary heroes (theBrontësEmily Brontë , George Eliot ,...
Textual Production Constance Garnett
CG painstakingly translated The Novels of Leo Tolstoy: six volumes which included Anna Karenina, Ivan Ilyitch and Other Stories, and War and Peace (which filled three of the six volumes).
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Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland, 1988.
Textual Production Lady Cynthia Asquith
LCA 's next biography, that of Sonya Tolstoy , appeared six months posthumously under the title of Married to Tolstoy.
Calder-Marshall, Arthur. “A Genius at Home”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3056, 23 Sept. 1960, p. 612.
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Textual Production Rebecca West
A commission for RW to write a New Yorker article on Tolstoy 's grandson, who lived in Mexico, spurred her to an important, though unrealised, project for a Mexican travel-book.
Quinones, Sam. “A singular view”. Guardian Weekly, 12–18 June 2003, p. 34.
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Textual Production Edith Lyttelton
EL was in demand for years as a contributor to the publishing projects of others. Her name (as the Hon. Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton) appears, for instance, on a suffrage pamphlet of late 1906 (partly...
Textual Production Matilda Betham-Edwards
Helen Black questioned her closely about her preferences in literature, and learned that Betham-Edwards endeavour[ed] to appreciate all the living novelists, but found the school of Tolstoy , Ibsen , and Zolarepulsive in the...
Textual Production Charlotte Maria Tucker
CMT , under the initials A.L.O.E., published War and Peace. A Tale of the Retreat from Caubul.
She was just ahead of Tolstoy 's more famous use of the title. The retreat of...
Textual Production Rose Tremain
RT published a novel entitled Music and Silence, which she dedicated to her daughter, Eleanor.
Scholar John Mullan has related the title to others employing two abstract nouns, like Elizabeth Inchbald 's Nature and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Q. D. Leavis
Responding to recent charges that Brontë 's novel is stylistically flawed, incoherent in intention, and excessively melodramatic and violent, QDL argues that the text, although not a seamless work of art, belongs, along with Tolstoy
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ursula K. Le Guin
This contains her thoughts on Mark Twain , Tolstoy , J. R. R. Tolkien (Rhythmic Pattern in The Lord of the Rings) and Ishi the tribal native American whom her father studied and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eva Figes
She considers the drama of ancient Greece and of the Renaissance, setting each in its historical context. After dealing with issues of religious belief, kingship, and the dead, she comes to that of women and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text E. M. Forster
This is on the whole a conservative work. Forster supports H. G. Wells against Henry James in their argument over the question in fiction of pattern versus representation of experience. Although he calls for innovation...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Bessie Rayner Parkes
A second edition appeared a year later, and a paperback edition in 2008.
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This collection contains Parkes's reminiscences of George Eliot , Anna Jameson , Mary Howitt , Georgiana Fullerton , and Catherine Booth ...

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