Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research.
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Travel | Anne Damer | In the first winter of her widowhood AD
went abroad to study art. Later she escaped newspaper harrassment by travelling to Italy: Rome and Florence (where she met Walpole's friend Horace Mann
). This voyage... |
Textual Production | Anne Damer | AD
's activity as a sculptor dates mostly from after 1777. Her best-known works include the keystones of the bridge at Henley, carved to represent the rivers Thames and Isis: completed in 1785, they... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Louisa Stuart Costello | In this work LSC
displays meticulous attention to historical detail, Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research. 166: 130 |
Textual Production | Joseph Conrad | The year after JC
's death there appeared his Suspense, an unfinished historical novel set during the Napoleon
ic wars. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 158 Ehrsam, Theodore G. A Bibliography of Joseph Conrad. Scarecrow Press. 8 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Charles | The novel tells the story of its female narrator's life during the evangelical revival in the Napoleonic era, [and] proposes religion as the antidote for revolution. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Welsh Carlyle | In her youth Jane Welsh composed verse translations from texts by Goethe
and Pierre Cardenal
, and of Chateaubriand
's Atala. She also wrote a number of original short poems; two of those that... |
Travel | Frances Burney | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Brontë | Patrick Brontë
was an Irish protestant from a large, respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Anna Letitia Barbauld | At this date, though the war against France was, from a British point of view, going well, Britain was suffering terribly from its prosecution. Napoleon
had not yet swung the balance against himself by invading... |
Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | During the next few years ALB
drafted several poems which she left unpublished: poems on public affairs instead of, like most of her earlier unpublished verse, on private topics. News of Napoleon
's retreat from... |
Occupation | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
was a striking and accomplished visual artist, though she tended to speak slightingly of her own work. Early in her marriage to Austin Davies she exhibited her work alongside his. King, Brendan. Beryl Bainbridge. Bloomsbury . 197 |
Literary Setting | Jane Austen | This fragment depicts a seaside resort, often identified as Brighton, under development after Napoleon
's first defeat had freed the south coast from the threat of invasion, but before the war returned with his... |
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