Duncan, Robert, and Denise Levertov. The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov. Editors Bertholf, Robert J. and Albert Gelpi, Stanford University Press, 2004.
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Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Standard Name: Tolstoy, Lev Nikolaevich
Used Form: Leo Tolstoy
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| 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... |
| Travel | Denise Levertov | DL
, on a visit to Russia (particularly Moscow), spent the day at Tolstoy
's house, Yasnaya Polyana. |
| Travel | Constance Garnett | She spent seven weeks in Russia and made valuable contacts (this was when she first met Tolstoy
). She returned to Russiain 1904, accompanied by her son David. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Tomalin, Clare. “Constance Garnett (1861 - 1946)”. Breaking Bounds. Six Newnham Lives, edited by Biddy Passmore, Newnham College, 2014, pp. 14-25. 19 |
| Travel | Kathleen E. Innes | Its success helped secure for future schools such high-profile speakers as Bertrand Russell
, Hermann Hesse
, Emily Greene Balch
, Romain Rolland
, Georges Duhamel
, and Paul Birukoff
(Tolstoy
's secretary and biographer). Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995. 70n21 |
| Travel | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Her old age included travel: three visits to Elizabeth Bowen
in Ireland and one to Tolstoy
's estate of Yasnaya Polyana in Russia (with two days in Moscow and one in Leningrad) in connection... |
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