Latter, Mary. Pro & Con. T. Lowndes.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Norah Lofts | Her title is a near-quotation from the lyric by Dryden
which closes The Secular Masque; NL
both quotes Dryden and thanks him. Her preface says Madeline Smith—may the earth lie lightly upon her—gave... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Latter | ML
here accords honorific citation to Dryden
and Pope
, Latter, Mary. Pro & Con. T. Lowndes. 31-2 Latter, Mary. Pro & Con. T. Lowndes. vii, 14 |
Author summary | Anne Killigrew | AK
(also a painter) was a fine Restoration-period poet, who has the misfortune of being better known for Dryden
's praises of her than for her actual work. |
Literary responses | Anne Killigrew | AK
's death was lamented in at least three poems. Her father printed in her PoemsDryden
's ode on her death, which links her painting and poetry, and subordinates both arts to her virtue... |
Textual Features | Samuel Johnson | This was not the first dictionary of English, but its predecessors had remained more or less close to the model of a word-list, omitting common words or any attempt to distinguish one idiomatic usage from... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elinor James | She defends the reputation of Queen Elizabeth
, mentions John Dryden
's dismissal of her in his preface to The Hind and the Panther (published this year) as anti-Catholic, but not one who merits an... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Isham | She had already had enquiries from prospective husbands when she was in London, but the time of wooing came after her return home: a time marked also by her sister's illness and her own religious... |
Textual Features | Lucy Hutchinson | Lucretius
, as a pagan philosopher and theologian (and, as LH
and her contemporaries believed, insane much of the time and sexually promiscuous), was a daring choice for one of her religious opinions. Lucretius, and Lucretius. “Introduction”. Lucy Hutchinson’s Translation of Lucretius, "De rerum natura", edited by Hugh De Quehen, translated by. Lucy Hutchinson, University of Michigan Press, pp. 1-20. 8, 11 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | MCH
raises the tone of her work with chapter-headings from Wordsworth
, Shakespeare
, Dryden
, and others, most of them asserting the value of the poor and powerless, or protesting about the deficiencies of... |
Literary responses | John Oliver Hobbes | Edmund Gosse
wrote to congratulate JOH
on The Serious Wooing, paying it the high compliment of calling it her new version Hobbes, John Oliver. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes. J. Murray. 203 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Haywood | This was the first periodical for women to take advantage of the monthly format, which was still fairly new. Unlike other magazines, it used fiction as its staple, while also including advice on behaviour, relationships... |
Textual Production | Cicely Hamilton | The title is a complex allusion to traditional gender roles, specifically to the sex appeal of male martial prowess. John Dryden
's line None but the brave deserve the fair (itself in context a propaganda... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Hamilton | EH
seeks to raise the canonical status of the novel in this work not only by serious politico-philosophical content, but also by chapter-heading quotations from the classics (from Horace
, Shakespeare
, and Milton
to... |
Textual Features | Sarah Green | M. G. Lewis
is a more complicated case, treated with some nuance. SG
admires The Monk but feels that after that Lewis's real talent was obscured by the baneful influence of German fiction: she agrees... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant |
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