The Academy.
11 (3 February 1877): 91
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Education | Tabitha Tenney | Whether or not TT
's education was Puritanical (most sources about her life have no higher status than gossip) she was well read in the emergent canon of English literature, from Shakespeare
and Milton
through... |
Literary responses | Anna Steele | The Academy gave Condoned a largely negative review, arguing that Steele had with the odd lack of judgment which not seldom distinguishes lady novelists, done nearly all she could to spoil her book. The Academy. 11 (3 February 1877): 91 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mariana Starke | The play's central theme was suttee or sati, the practice of burning a widow at her husband's death. The playbill advertised a Procession representing the Ceremonies attending the Sacrifice of an Indian Woman on the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Smythies | The novel offers in passing an amusing catalogue of an old-fashioned library, whose first items are heroic romances like Ibraham; Cassandra; Cleopatra [by Madeleine de Scudéry
and Gauthier de La Calprenède
]. Several... |
Textual Production | Constance Smedley | The American title echoes Dryden
's All for Love (Act 4, scene 1): Men are but children of a larger growth. The book is dedicated To Another Father and Mother in gratitude for a wide... |
Textual Features | Anna Seward | The series (completed in 1791) developed from AS
's strictures on John Weston
's contributions to a book entitled Records of the Woodmen of Arden. She compared Dryden
with Pope
to the advantage of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Seward | The sonnets are written in strict Milton
ic form. One of their favourite themes is love of nature and the countryside; one or two deal with Seward's love for Honora Sneyd
. In rendering Horace... |
Anthologization | Sarah, Lady Piers | SLP
was one of the contributors to The Nine Muses, the all-female anthology of elegies on the death of Dryden
which was edited by Delarivier Manley
, and published in 1700. She expressed some... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | It gathered together published and unpublished work (some written at boarding-school) both religious and secular: hymns, epistles, odes, pastorals (including an imitation of Anne Killigrew
and an elegy for Queen Mary
), praise of King William |
Anthologization | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Thirty of her poems from The Athenian Mercury were recycled with other contents of the magazine in a new venture of Dunton's, a collection entitled The Athenian Oracle. Her poems also appeared in Divine... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs Ross | Southampton turns out to be too bashful to speak in parliament, and also too weak to withstand the mockery of rakish friends for his fidelity to his wife. He suffers agony of conscience over his... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Clara Reeve | In this ground-breaking study CR
provides the first full critical and historical account of the modern novel form (the one most used by women writers), and defends the genre of romance against its many attackers... |
Textual Features | Anna Maria Porter | The novel ranges over Barbary, Persia, and Brazil, Stevens, Anne. “Tales of Other Times: A Survey of British Historical Fiction, 1770-1812”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol. 7 . |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Plumptre | AP
tackles, more boldly than any novelist before her, the unwritten rule whereby a heroine has to be beautiful. She also reverses conventional gender expectations in highlighting the inconstancy, self-indulgence, and emotionalism of men and... |
Textual Production | Mary Pix | MP
contributed to The Nine Muses, edited by Delarivier Manley
in 1700, a volume of elegies by women on the lately-dead John Dryden
. Backscheider, Paula R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 80. Gale Research. 174 |
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