Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Joan of Arc
Standard Name: Joan of Arc
Used Form: Jeanne d'Arc
Used Form: Joan d'Arc
Used Form: Maid of Orleans
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Textual Production | Robert Southey | RS
published his epic poem Joan of Arc. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 2nd ser. 16 (1796): 191 |
Textual Production | Ethel Smyth | ES
's Female Pipings in Eden, a volume of collected essays, included a memoir of Emmeline Pankhurst
, whom she considered more astounding than Joan of Arc
. Smyth, Ethel. Female Pipings in Eden. Second Edition, Peter Davies, 1934. title-page qtd. in 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. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1661 (30 November 1933): 851 |
Textual Production | George Bernard Shaw | GBS
's history play Saint Joan, a provocative treatment of Joan of Arc
, was first produced in New York, three months ahead of the London opening. Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxviii Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ . 28 December 2007 |
Textual Production | Anna Eliza Bray | AEB
published, as Mrs. Bray, a biography entitled Joan of Arc
and the Times of Charles the Seventh
, King of France. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Charles | EC
published the short work Joan the Maid, which precedes Margaret Oliphant
's biography of Joan of Arc by seventeen years. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
published a biography, Saint Joan of Arc, with the publishers Cobden-Sanderson
; the full title was Saint Joan of Arc: Born, January 6, 1412, Burned as a Heretic, May 20, 1431, Canonized as... |
Textual Production | Christine de Pisan | Christine de Pisan
finished her Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc, a poem commemorating Joan of Arc
's victory at Orléans that year, and the subsequent coronation of Charles VII
. McLeod, Glenda P., and Christine de Pisan. “Introduction”. Christine de Pizan: Christine’s Vision, Garland, 1993, p. xi - lv. xxi |
Textual Production | Maude Royden | MR
's Blessed Joan of Arc appeared as one of Sidgwick and Jackson
's Messages of the Saints series. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. 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. |
Textual Production | Emma Robinson | ER
, as the author of Whitefriars, etc. but posing as an editor, published The Maid of Orleans, a historical novel about Joan of Arc
. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1152(1849): 1177 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Anne Manning | AM
, as the author of Mary Powell, published A Noble Purpose Nobly Won, An Old, Old Story, a historical novel about Joan of Arc
. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Augusta Webster | The women speakers of Dramatic Studies include the imprisoned Jeanne d'Arc. By the Looking-Glass gives voice to a plain girl seated beside her bedroom mirror after she has arrived home from a ball. Skilled... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Laura Riding | The original typescript of 200,000 words covered such topics as Joan of Arc
, French poets, suicide . . . English romantic poetry, bulls, George Sand
, and so on. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books, 2005. 197 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | She opens her discussion here with a question: What does the Woman's Movement mean and what is its significance in our modern life? Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. The Meaning of the Woman’s Movement. Woman’s Press. 3 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marina Warner | The book presents Joan
as a unique historical figure, for she was not a queen, a courtesan, a beauty, a mother, an artist, or (until very long after her death) a saint. Warner argues that... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Katharine Tynan | In this first volume KT
establishes three themes that recur throughout her later poetry collections: religion, Ireland, and nature. The four monologues here are spoken by historical or legendary heroines: |
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