Ellmann in a sentence

Ellmann's novel, detailing the life consciousness of a mother in Ohio, consists mostly of one single sentence.

The closest this year’s longlist comes to a book by an American writer is “Ducks, Newburyport,” by Lucy Ellmann, who was born in Illinois, but moved to Britain when she was 13 and now lives in Edinburgh.

There is no choice with Ducks, Newburyport, Lucy Ellmann’s 1,000-page plus novel, shortlisted on Tuesday for the 2019 Booker prize.

According to Ellmann, Stanislaus allowed Joyce to collect his pay, "to simplify matters" (p. 213).

By Richard Ellmann 's account, he was a precocious seventeen-year-old "so young and yet so knowing, was determined to seduce Wilde".

Ellmann (1982), p. 272. While living in Trieste, Joyce was first beset with eye problems that ultimately required over a dozen surgical operations.

Ellmann (1988:205) In August he briefly returned to New York for the production of Vera, his first play, after it was turned down in London.

Ellmann (1988:228) Wilde was left to return to England and lecturing on topics including Personal Impressions of America, The Value of Art in Modern Life, and Dress.

Ellmann (1988:26) For his part, Mahaffy boasted of having created Wilde; later, he named him "the only blot on my tutorship".

Ellmann (1988:27) The University Philosophical Society also provided an education, discussing intellectual and artistic subjects such as Rossetti and Swinburne weekly.

Ellmann (1988:322) One evening, after discussing depictions of Salome throughout history, he returned to his hotel and noticed a blank copybook lying on the desk, and it occurred to him to write in it what he had been saying.

Ellmann (1988:344) The audience, like Lady Windermere, are forced to soften harsh social codes in favour of a more nuanced view.

Ellmann (1988:397) His fame now at its peak, he used the working title Lady Lancing to avoid pre-emptive speculation of its content.

Ellmann (1988:39) During a resurgent interest in Freemasonry in his third year, he commented he "would be awfully sorry to give it up if I secede from the Protestant Heresy".

Ellmann (1988:402) Queensberry, who feuded regularly with his son, confronted Wilde and Lord Alfred about the nature of their relationship several times, but Wilde was able to mollify him.

Ellmann (1988:404) Peter Raby said these essentially English plays were well-pitched, "Wilde, with one eye on the dramatic genius of Ibsen, and the other on the commercial competition in London's West End, targeted his audience with adroit precision".

Ellmann (1988:406) The largest cut was the removal of the character of Mr. Gribsby, a solicitor who comes from London to arrest the profligate "Ernest" (i.

Ellmann (1988:421) His account in De Profundis was less triumphant: "It was when, in my library at Tite Street, waving his small hands in the air in epileptic fury, your father..

Ellmann (1988:429) Wilde was then imprisoned on remand at Holloway where he received daily visits from Douglas.

Ellmann (1988:435) Lockwood answered that he would like to do so, but feared that the case had become too politicised to be dropped.