Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol.
4
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Germaine de Staël | Benjamin Constant
, formerly the lover of GS
, represented her in his novel Adolphe as a woman whose mind was the most wide-ranging of any woman ever, and perhaps of any man, Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol. 4 , pp. 12-35. 26 |
politics | Germaine de Staël | Following an anti-Napoleon
speech by GS
's lover Benjamin Constant
, her salon that night was thinly attended: a sign that opposition to the rising political power would not be tolerated. Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol. 4 , pp. 12-35. 27 |
Travel | Germaine de Staël | GS
left Coppet, eluding Napoleon
's spies, and travelled to St Petersburg through countries not yet under his sway (Austria, Bohemia, and Poland); she then visited Stockholm. Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol. 4 , pp. 12-35. 31-2 |
Residence | Germaine de Staël | GS
returned to Paris from exile in England after the abdication of Napoleon
. Staël, Germaine de. Dix années d’exil. Treuttel and Würtz. xviii Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg. 125 |
Textual Production | Germaine de Staël | GS
was set to publish De l'Allemagne (Germany) in Paris when Napoleon
suppressed it because of its sympathy with nascent nationalist feeling in Germany; it waited three years for publication. Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg. 69-70 Lessenich, Rolf. “Literary Views of English Rhine Romanticism 1760-1860”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 10 , No. 4, pp. 480-18. 490 Lonchamp, Frédéric-Charles. L’Œuvre Imprimé de Madame Germaine de Staël. Suisse. 55-61 |
Publishing | Germaine de Staël | GS
's De l'Allemagne (Germany), a work on German culture and politics suppressed by Napoleon
, was finally published by John Murray
at London, from a copy of proofs which she had hidden. Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg. 69-70, 75 Lessenich, Rolf. “Literary Views of English Rhine Romanticism 1760-1860”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 10 , No. 4, pp. 480-18. 490 Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora. 138 |
politics | Germaine de Staël | She discussed the issue of military opposition to Napoleon
with Tsar Alexander I
and with Bernadotte of Sweden
. Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol. 4 , pp. 12-35. 31-2 |
Literary responses | Germaine de Staël | The book attracted attacks from Catholics and from specialists with more knowledge than GS
. One politician criticised her for attempting such a large topic, allegedly outside the realm of a woman's proper sphere. It... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mariana Starke | Here MS
found the mixture that would characterise all her travel writing: vivid first-hand narrative and evocation, and reliable well-set-out information about practical matters like mileages and information about the state of roads and inns... |
Textual Production | Rosemary Sutcliff | RS
based her adult novel Blood and Sand on the story of the actual Thomas Keith
from Edinburgh, who fought against Napoleon
, was captured in Egypt in 1807, converted to Islam
, and made... |
Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | The virtues of this powerful Irish novel were not fully appreciated in England. Mary Russell Mitford
thought that Morgan would be all right without the politics: she would be worth reading and praising if only... |
Textual Features | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | It is set in Dublin and Connemara during the 1790s, the time of the author's own youth, with closing scenes in Paris. The large cast of characters includes ancient Catholic landowning families of the... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | An obituary of EST
published first in the Monthly Magazine and then, with some variations, in the Gentleman's Magazine, said that she contributed to nearly every respectable periodical of her age, and worked on... |
Residence | Melesina Trench | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Melesina Trench | A note in Campaspe confesses that the subject of the title-poem is over-ambitious. It is an allegory in which Alexander the Great
(representing Glory) resigns Campaspe (representing Beauty) to Apelles
the sculptor (Genius). This piece... |
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