Dowd, Maureen A. “’By the Delicate Hand of a Female’: Melodramatic Mania and Joanna Baillie’s Spectacular Tragedies”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
9
, No. 4, pp. 469-00. 476
Edward Gibbon
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Standard Name: Gibbon, Edward
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Joanna Baillie | JB
took her subject-matter from Gibbon
's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Her play's magnificence and show |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Kingsford | The title story, Rosamunda the Princess, takes place in Dark Age Italy in the political turmoil that followed the fall of the Roman Empire. Rosamund's story is recounted in Edward Gibbon
's History of... |
| Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | The book received far less attention than Morgan's other recent publications. William Hazlitt
, however, even though he shared her progressive political stance, rapped her over the knuckles in the Edinburgh Review for presuming to... |
| Literary responses | Jan Morris | The TLS seemed inclined to blame Morris for projecting romanticism and sensibility onto the Victorians evoked in the text. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 3480 (7 November 1968): 1240 |
| Literary responses | Agnes Strickland | Despite intense controversy over its details, the work as a whole was a great popular success. It brought AS
fame; it provided a quarry of subject-matter for historical painters; it brought begging letters (presumably written... |
| Literary responses | Anna Kingsford | MacLeane
half apologized, for his personal but not his literary judgements, in the issue of 10 April 1875: If . . . any reader of the review was led by it to form an opinion... |
| Occupation | William Law | WL
then worked as a tutor in the Gibbon family, finding a mediocre pupil in Edward (who grew up to be the father of the historian Edward Gibbon
) but a bright and rewarding pupil... |
| Reception | Dorothea Celesia | A prologue by William Whitehead
mentioned DC
's right to inherit her father's theatrical talent, in spite of her sex: No Salick law here bars the female's claim. It concluded with the statement that critics... |
| Reception | Mary Stewart | Roy Hoffman
in the New York Times found The Wicked Day[i]n almost every way . . . a highly enjoyable romance. New York Times. New York Times Company. (1 January 1984): BR20 |
| Residence | Dorothea Celesia | As well as their Genoan town house, the Celesia family had a country seat which Edward Gibbon
reported as still wilder than Beriton or Buriton, his own family estate in below the South Downs in... |
| Textual Features | Hannah Brand | This heroic tragedy (full title Huniades; or, The Siege of Belgrade) is given with passages restored that were omitted in performance. It is set in 1456 (three years after Constantinople, capital of the Christian... |
| Textual Features | Brigid Brophy | The title-piece is the last and longest in the volume. It belongs to the once-popular genre of dialogues of the dead. Its characters are Voltaire
(who had been used this way several times before), Gibbon |
| Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
wrote to Macready in April 1823 about this play, or the idea for it; she was afraid he did not like it. She found the subject in Gibbon
's Decline and Fall of the... |
| Textual Production | Edith J. Simcox | She began work on this book as early as 1878. McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press. 75 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hester Mulso Chapone | HMC
was still reading and commenting on others' works into her old age. She read and remarked on Hester Piozzi
, Charlotte Smith
, Edward Gibbon
, Erasmus Darwin
's The Loves of the Plants... |
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