8,254 research outputs found
Elizabeth Ann Bishop and Mike Sharp in a Joint Junior Recital
No full textThis is the program for the joint junior recital of mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Ann Bishop and pianist Mike Sharp. Pianist Sylvia McDonnough assisted Bishop. The recital took plac eon February 23, 1978, in the Mabee Fine Arts Center Recital Hall
The Life and Letters of William Sharp and "Fiona Macleod"
No full text"William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. Sharp was a Scottish poet, novelist, biographer and editor who in 1893 began to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod. This was far more than just a pseudonym: he corresponded as Macleod, enlisting his sister to provide the handwriting and address, and for more than a decade ""Fiona Macleod"" duped not only the general public but such literary luminaries as William Butler Yeats and, in America, E. C. Stedman.
Sharp wrote ""I feel another self within me now more than ever; it is as if I were possessed by a spirit who must speak out"". This three-volume collection brings together Sharp’s own correspondence – a fascinating trove in its own right, by a Victorian man of letters who was on intimate terms with writers including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, and George Meredith – and the Fiona Macleod letters, which bring to life Sharp’s intriguing ""second self"".
With an introduction and detailed notes by William F. Halloran, this richly rewarding collection offers a wonderful insight into the literary landscape of the time, while also investigating a strange and underappreciated phenomenon of late-nineteenth-century English literature. It is essential for scholars of the period, and it is an illuminating read for anyone interested in authorship and identity.
‘Meeting the Gutenberg Bible in a Virtual Reading Room’, SHARP In the Classroom
No full textVirtual reading rooms (VRRs) started to become more common during closures due to Covid-19, as institutions increasingly created set-ups to allow for interactions with librarians who can facilitate live, responsive research, in real time, with physical objects. But they have not become embedded in research, teaching, research-led teaching, and public engagement. Much of the discussion about VRRs for research and teaching has focused on more common material, not least because research and teaching with highly valuable, rare, and restricted artefacts has by default been in person. This is especially the case for specialist research and teaching related to their materiality. But this model is exclusionary. It demands the health, personal and professional circumstances, and wealth for travel as well as connections to be granted access, while causing an ecological impact. This call for action explores how VRRs can be used to facilitate participant-directed interactions for advanced teaching and research into materiality of rare artefacts of print heritage, based on virtual object-based teaching with perhaps the most special of all special collections: the Gutenberg Bible
Poetry in Process: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Sonnets Notebook.
No full textTo date, the examination of Elizabeth Barrett Brownings\u27 composition and publication history has been hampered by the inaccessibility of the manuscripts and corrected proofs that were sold at public auction following the death of the Brownings\u27 son in 1913. This examination of the Sonnets manuscript notebook at the Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University, then, sheds new light on Elizabeth Barrett Browning\u27s literary interests and activities in the early 1840\u27s as well as on her methods of composition and revision. Each of the twenty-three poems and fragments in the Sonnets notebook was written between 1842-1844, years which mark a turning point in Elizabeth Barrett Browning\u27s artistic development. Nearly half the poems in the notebook are unpublished, and examination of the unpublished pieces illuminates the author\u27s later work on the Sonnets from the Portuguese, Aurora Leigh, and Poems Before Congress. Moreover, the drafts of all the published poems in the notebook vary significantly from the versions published under the author\u27s supervision, and examination of these and other recently discovered drafts illuminates her process of revision and answers a number of questions about establishing a text of her poetry. By far the most significant implication of the present study of the Sonnets notebook involves the shortcomings in the existing criticism written without reference to Elizabeth Barrett Browning\u27s unpublished manuscripts. That many of the holographs scattered at the Sotheby auction of 1913 have been located calls for a re-assessment of Elizabeth Barrett Browning\u27s career in light of manuscripts--like those in Sonnets --to which critics and biographers have had no previous access. This examination of the Sonnets notebook is among the first in which such materials are incorporated, and in it the necessity of consulting Elizabeth Barrett Browning\u27s unpublished manuscripts is demonstrated throughout
Afterword
No full textNews of Sharp’s death was wired to Edith Rinder in London, and she passed it to the newspapers with the information that Sharp was the author of the writings of Fiona Macleod. Six years before he died, Sharp wrote on small white cards a message confessing that he, and he alone, was “the author — in the literal and literary sense — of all written under the name of Fiona Macleod.” He identified individuals who were to receive the cards from Elizabeth after he died. She sent one to W. B. Yeats o..
sj-docx-1-mpp-10.1177_23814683231198003 – Supplemental material for A Qualitative Study of Men’s Experiences Using Navigate: A Localized Prostate Cancer Treatment Decision Aid
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-mpp-10.1177_23814683231198003 for A Qualitative Study of Men’s Experiences Using Navigate: A Localized Prostate Cancer Treatment Decision Aid by Elizabeth Todio, Penelope Schofield and Jessica Sharp in MDM Policy & Practice</p
Contested Cosmopolitanism: William and Elizabeth A. Sharp's Glasgow Herald Reviews of the Paris Salons 1884-1900
No full textDiscusses William Sharp's attempt as a fin-de-siecle art critic to accommodate local particularism and national identity within his "outsider" cosmopolitanism, through his contributions to The Evergreen and the regular reviews he and his wife Elizabeth A. Sharp wrote of the Paris Salons for the Glasgow Herald, unsigned but identifiable through their correspondence, and argues that these reviews show how "the Sharps resisted the growing tendency to see the particular and the cosmopolitan as irreconcilable opposites.
Chapter Seventeen
No full textLife: 1898 Early in 1898, Sharp suffered a “severe nervous collapse” which caused “an acute depression and restlessness that necessitated a continual change of environment.” Elizabeth attributed it to the strain of maintaining a double identity: The production of the Fiona Macleod work was accomplished at a heavy cost to the author as that side of his nature deepened and became dominant. The strain upon his energies was excessive: not only from the necessity of giving expression to the two si..
Elizabeth Regnier
No full textReproduction of a daguerreotype portrait of Elizabeth Regnier, ca. 1840-1849. She was the first wife of Felix Regnier, M. D. who began practicing medicine in Gallipolis in 1824. The Regnier Family were early settlers of southeastern Ohio
Cecil Sharp In Virginia: A Website
No full textLiz Milner (George Mason University) 7011 Donna Circle Annandale, VA 22003-1806 (703) 658-0957 (H) [email protected] Extreme Appalachia Presentation Proposal: Cecil Sharp in Virginia, a Website The year 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of Cecil Sharp’s folksong collecting trip in Virginia. In the course of the trip, Sharp photographed his informants and the places they lived and worked. These photos are available on the internet, but they lack context. My website, Cecil Sharp in Virginia (https://cecilsharpva.wordpress.com/) curates these photographs.
The website: Provides biographical and genealogical information about Sharp’s informants and their relationships to one another Integrates Sharp’s photos and diary entries with timelines, maps and web links to recreate his journey. Significance: Mapping Sharp’s journey provides a better understanding of his achievement. By using dynamic mapping, the wide range of his travels becomes instantly clear.
Matching the photographs of the singers with their biographies and their songs helps differentiate each singer and locate them in time and space. Many versions of the same songs were collected in different communities. Noting where the songs were collected and how they changed in the course of their travels helps to reveal how songs were disseminated. Applying digital genealogy techniques to the data also helps elucidate family relationships and artistic influences among the singers.
Conclusion: Sharp’s desire to differentiate himself from the antiquarians and present his ideas as scientific may have been the source of his decision to omit photographs and anecdotal information about his informants from English Folk-Songs of the Southern Appalachians.
The incorporation of Sharp’s photographs and diary entries with maps of his journey through Appalachia provides contextual information that enriches our understanding of early 20th century culture in Appalachia and also enhances our appreciation of Sharp and Karpeles’ arduous journeys and their tremendous achievement.
Relevant Literature
Primary Sources
Karpeles, Maud. 1967. Cecil Sharp: His Life and Work. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Sharp, Cecil James. 1907. English Folk-Song: Some Conclusions. London: Simpkin & Co. Ltd. Sharp, Cecil James. 1932. English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians. Edited by Karpeles, Maud; repr. 1960. London:Oxford University Press, 1960. Sharp, Cecil James. n.d. Cecil Sharp’s Appalachian Diaries: 1915-1918. Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Website, http://www.vwml.org/vwml-projects/vwml-cecil-sharp-diaries; Accessed 4/3/2016 6:03:56 PM
Secondary Sources
Eisenfeld, Sue. 2014. Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal. University of Nebraska Press. English Folk Dance & Song Society. 2004. Dear Companion: Appalachian Traditional Songs and Singers from the Cecil Sharp Collection. Edited by Mike Yates, Elaine Bradtke and Malcolm Taylor. London:English Folk Dance & Song Society. Gold, John R., and George Revill. 2006. Gathering the Voices of the People: Cecil Sharp, Cultural Hybridity, and the Folk Music of Appalachia. GeoJournal 65, no. 1/2: 55–66. Harker, Dave. 1985. Fakesong: The Manufacture of British Folksong:” 1700 to the Present Day. Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England: Open University Press. Whisnant, David E. 1983. All That Is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. Yates, Mike. 1999. Cecil Sharp in America: Collecting in the Appalachians. Musical Traditions, Stroud, Glos, England, UK, http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/sharp.htm. Zumwalt, Rosemary Lévy. 1988. American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Author Biography
Liz Milner is a student in George Mason University’s Graduate Folklore Program. She holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Chicago and a BA in International Service from American University, Washington, D.C. As an independent scholar she has written about topics that range from quackery in Tudor England to the career of Appalachian dulcimer virtuoso Ralph Lee Smith. She presently works in the Virginia Room, Fairfax County Public Library’s historical archive
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