Devlin, Polly, and E. Arnot Robertson. “Introduction”. Four Frightened People, Virago, p. vii - xix.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Shelley | As it stands, Frankenstein is no ghost story, though it is rich in the uncanny, and aims to chill its reader's blood. MS
shows an astonishing power for such a young author of weaving together... |
Cultural formation | Anna Sewell | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | |
Education | George Sand | Her upbringing had a freedom in accordance with the dictates of Rousseau
rather than the conventions of her class. Her father's tutor, François Deschartres, instructed the young Aurore in botany, mathematics, Latin, and Greek. At... |
Textual Features | Mary Robinson | The romantic outcast hero Walsingham feels a conflicted love for Isabella (he improbably rapes another woman who dresses as her at a masquerade, and feels only a brief remorse). He also loves his brilliant cousin... |
Literary responses | E. Arnot Robertson | J. B. Priestley
, focussing on the noble-savage aspects of this story, complained that its characters do not really come from Borneo, they come from Rousseau
and cloud-cuckoo land. Devlin, Polly, and E. Arnot Robertson. “Introduction”. Four Frightened People, Virago, p. vii - xix. ix |
Literary responses | Amelia Opie | The Critical Review, which had praised AO
's earlier work, thought this novel equally well done, and that the description of the heroine's death could stand comparison with those of Richardson
's Clarissa or... |
Reception | Adelaide O'Keeffe | The Monthly Review was on the whole complimentary. It judged the novel to be original and entertaining, though it complained of a few Hibernicisms and grammatical errors. It concentrated, oddly, on the Don Zulvago plot... |
Occupation | Iris Murdoch | Dawson later recalled her as blithe and insouciant about set-texts and exams, preferring to roam over philosophical and literary ideas from Plato
to Arthur Koestler
. Dawson, Jennifer. “Impressions of Iris Murdoch, Teacher, in 1951”. The Ship, Vol. 91 , pp. 52-3. 52 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | The widely varied quotations heading the chapters include some in Latin (Virgil
, Cicero
, Lucretius
, Horace
) and some in French (Rousseau
, Voltaire
, Marmontel
, and Manon Roland
). The English writers quoted include Mary Robinson
. McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta. |
Publishing | Harriet Martineau | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catharine Macaulay | The letters are addressed to Hortensia (the name of a Roman matron who acted against gender convention by speaking publicly in the Forum against a proposed tax on women). O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press. 115 This name had been used... |
Textual Production | Anne Lister | AL
wrote in her diary a statement echoing Rousseau
: I know my own heart, and understand my fellow man. From this her editor Helena Whitbread
titled the first printed volume of the diary. The... |
Literary responses | Mary Lamb | In reading The Father's Wedding-day, Walter Savage Landor
said he pressed my temples with both hands, and tears ran down to my elbows.. He read this story over and over again, Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. 244 |
Education | Julia Kristeva | Most of JK
's education in Bulgaria took place in French (a habit among the intelligentsia dating from before Communism), though Russian was also a compulsory subject. Her parents were unusual in choosing a French-speaking... |
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