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.
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Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Fenwick | EF
's father, Peter Jaco
, born in 1721, was a Cornishman, who early in life worked for his father in the pilchard fishery; ships owned by the family sailed in the Mediterranean. EF
said... |
Cultural formation | Olaudah Equiano | |
Cultural formation | Olaudah Equiano | He was baptised into the |
Cultural formation | Harriet Corp | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | The letters in Christian Sects (which is headed by three quotations, one of them from St John's Gospel) are said to have been exchanged between one of the editors of the Small Books, and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Cassandra Cooke | Cassandra's cousin Jane Austen
criticised the household management of Samuel Cooke (who was her godfather), judging him a disagreable, fidgetty master to his servants. |
Cultural formation | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Both parents came from Dissenting
backgrounds; Ivy's maternal grandfather was a fervent Methodist
. She herself, after inventing fictitious deities as a child and being baptised and confirmed in the Anglican
church, chose from an... |
Occupation | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The son of a vicar, he preached publicly and toyed with the idea of entering the Unitarian
ministry. He worked as a journalist for the Morning Post and lectured widely on both literature and philosophy. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. |
Cultural formation | Olivia Clarke | |
Literary Setting | Elizabeth Charles | This one-volume novel was based on the lives of MethodistsGeorge Whitefield
and John Wesley
. Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
Cultural formation | Jane Cave | JC
, daughter of Welsh and English parents, Schürer, Norbert. “Jane Cave Winscom: Provincial Poetry and the Metropolitan Connection”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 36 , No. 3, pp. 415-31. 417 |
Cultural formation | Josephine Butler | |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Brooke | Sources also differ as to whether her family were Church of IrelandAnglicans
(following long tradition) and Charlotte later inclined to Methodism
or Evangelicism, like her mother, or whether while many of her relations were... |
Cultural formation | Lucy Boston | |
Literary Setting | Arnold Bennett | Like AB
's early novels and two collections of short stories, these are set in the five towns of the Potteries. Clayhanger is set in the past: during the industrial revolution and the days... |
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