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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Tollet | His friendship with Sir Isaac Newton
(a neighbour at the Tower) was shared by his daughter. There may also, possibly, have been personal acquaintance behind her praise of the poems of William Congreve
and Alexander Pope |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Tollet | Sir Isaac Newton
admired ET
's earliest essays (that is, attempts at writing). Thomas Parnell
praised her Apollo and Daphne in a poem which he contributed to Steele
's Poetical Miscellanies, 1714 (which actually... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Tollet | On the Death of Sir Isaac Newton dwells on the honorific funeral which Tollet, as a woman, would not have attended. On the analogy of Cicero
's restoration of the tomb of Archimedes
, she... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Agnes Strickland | Her father, Thomas Strickland
, was a docks manager near Rotherhithe, which was then a distinct village, but became part of the London Docks complex. He owned property in East London. He had... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Strickland | Her father, Thomas Strickland
, owned some property while he was employed as a docks manager near Rotherhithe. He thought of himself as an intellectual, and took pride in the fact that some books... |
Occupation | Mary Somerville | She was now free to pursue her mathematical studies with increased intensity. She tackled plane and spherical trigonometry and conic sections, read Newton
's Principia, and began to explore higher mathematics and physical astronomy... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Smith | She then recorded how she look[ed] back on my past life with shame and confusion, when I recollect the many advantages I have had, and the bad use I have made of them. Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell. 85 |
Textual Features | George Bernard Shaw | In it, Charles II
, Nell Gwyn
, Isaac Newton
, and George Fox
, among others, debate religious, scientific, and artistic issues. |
Textual Features | Frances Arabella Rowden | An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820) Rowden, Frances Arabella. A Biographical Sketch of the Most Distinguished Writers of Ancient and Modern Times. 1829, iv |
Textual Features | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | This novel is largely autobiographical, and contains an unsympathetic portrait of the author's mother, radical feminist Anna Wheeler
, in the character of Aunt Marley. The school that Rosina attended is also portrayed as a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Susanna Moodie | SM
' s mother, born Elizabeth Homer
, was the second wife of Thomas Strickland. Strickland's first wife, born Susanna Butt
, was related to Sir Isaac Newton
; because of the connection the Strickland... |
Literary responses | Dora Marsden | DM
sent her book to trusted readers before and after its publication. Her former instructor Samuel Alexander
(who had published Space, Time and the Deity in 1920) advised against publication, telling her that the text... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Marcet | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Johnson | The poem is headed with a quotation from Psalm 19: The Heavens declare the Glory of God, & the Firmament showeth his handy work—the same psalm which Addison
had famously rendered as The spacious... |
Textual Features | Ann Jellicoe | The fanciful science-fiction drama presents a world ruled by Mother, who leads the older women of the world to banish men from society and from history. Schoolgirls are made to repeat the chorus, Shakespeare |
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