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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | A. Woodfin | She learns to condemn her parents' treatment of her when she boards in a family who deliberately favour the ugly, deformed one of their young twins, to redress the balance. She feels a great relief... |
| Textual Production | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | She also adapted works by Henry Fielding
and George Lillo
, and a version of the Inkle and Yarico story originated by Richard Steele
and versified by Frances, Lady Hertford
. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Wharton | Her grandmother engineered this marriage with some secrecy. Thomas Wharton broke off another half-arranged match, and AW
seems to have had a reciprocated love for a Mr Arundel, who defeated Wharton in a duel but... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Martha Sherwood | MMS
began making up stories in her sixth year, but wrote later, what they were I have not the least idea. I was too young to write them down; but when I had thought of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Savage | The opening poem, Nothing New, situates the anxieties of authors in regard to critics in the tradition of anxieties of lovers: both are right to be anxious. The contents include an English translation of... |
| Literary responses | Susanna Haswell Rowson | Charlotte Temple has received a great deal of recent critical attention. Steven Epley
has discerned a possible connection with Inkle and Yarico (which he classes as folk legend). Epley, Steven. “Alienated, Betrayed, and Powerless: A Possible Connection between Charlotte Temple and the Legend of Inkle and Yarico”. Papers on Language and Literature, Vol. 38 , No. 2, pp. 200-22. |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | |
| Reception | Mary Pix | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Murray | This volume opens with The Plan of a School, and then, continuing a story-line from volume one, with Mrs Wheatley's demanding of Miss Le Maine how she can use rouge and plume herself on... |
| Textual Production | Alice Meynell | She was unhappy that Sargent
's portrait of her was reproduced as the frontispiece, but was otherwise pleased with the book and its sales. It included four previously unpublished essays, two of them on the... |
| Literary responses | Delarivier Manley | Between the first and second volumes of the New Atalantis, Steele
attacked DM
in Tatler no. 63 (not for the first time) as dispensing poison with her tongue. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon. 279 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Delarivier Manley | She was rumoured, too, to have had an affair with the writer Richard Steele
. Manley, Delarivier. “Editorial Materials”. A Woman of No Character: An Autobiography of Mrs Manley, edited by Fidelis Morgan, Faber, p. various pages. 106 |
| Friends, Associates | Delarivier Manley | She was, however, a good friend of Richard Steele
during the time of her relationship with Tilly. She helped Steele find a midwife when he had fathered an illegitimate baby. The friendship ended when he... |
Timeline
28 December 1694: Queen Mary died of smallpox during a severe...
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28 December 1694
Queen Mary
died of smallpox during a severe epidemic, leaving her husband, William
, to reign alone.
April 1701: Richard Steele's The Christian Hero, a didactic...
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April 1701
Richard Steele
's The Christian Hero, a didactic prose work, was published.
9 October 1701: Richard Steele signed an agreement with John...
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9 October 1701
23 April 1705: The Tender Husband; or, The Accomplish'd...
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23 April 1705
The Tender Husband; or, The Accomplish'd Fool by Richard Steele
opened on stage.
12 April 1709: Richard Steele began issuing his ground-breaking...
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12 April 1709
Richard Steele
began issuing his ground-breaking periodicalThe Tatler, using the pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff and declaring his intention of reporting topics of talk from all the London coffeehouses.
8 July 1709-31 March 1710: The thrice-weekly Female Tatler appeared,...
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8 July 1709-31 March 1710
The thrice-weekly Female Tatler appeared, an explicitly woman-centred riposte to the condescending or gender-prejudiced element in Richard Steele
's still-new Tatler.
11 October 1709: Richard Steele's use of Mrs Jenny Distaff...
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11 October 1709
Richard Steele
's use of Mrs Jenny Distaff (supposedly half-sister of the supposed author, Isaac Bickerstaff) in The Tatler gave rise to a short-lived periodical, The Whisperer, written as by this fictional woman.
29 December 1709: Richard Steele's reference in The Tatler...
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29 December 1709
Richard Steele
's reference in The Tatler to the new fashion of hoop petticoats marked the establishment of the mode in England or at least in London.
2 January 1711: Richard Steele ceased publishing his ground-breaking...
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2 January 1711
Richard Steele
ceased publishing his ground-breaking periodical, The Tatler.
1 March 1711: Joseph Addison began to publish the Spec...
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1 March 1711
Joseph Addison
began to publish the Spectator.
12 March-1 October 1713: Richard Steele published a periodical entitled...
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12 March-1 October 1713
Richard Steele
published a periodical entitled the Guardian.
December 1713: Richard Steele published Poetical Miscellanies;...
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December 1713
Richard Steele
published Poetical Miscellanies; it included poems by Pope
, Anne Finch
, and himself (including praise of the unnamed and only recently identified young Elizabeth Tollet
).
Before 21 October 1714: George Berkeley compiled and published The...
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Before 21 October 1714
1715: The theatre censorship system which had been...
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1715
The theatre censorship system which had been in place since the 1690s died out when Drury Lane
under Richard Steele
ceased sending playscripts to Killigrew
.
1719: Richard Steele wrote and edited another short-lived...
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1719
Richard Steele
wrote and edited another short-lived periodical, The Spinster: in defence of the woollen manufactures, as by Rachel Woolpack.
Texts
Steele, Sir Richard. “Introduction”. The Plays of Richard Steele, edited by Shirley Strum Kenny, Clarendon, 1971.
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison. Selections from the Tatler and Spectator. Editor Ross, Angus, Penguin, 1982.
Steele, Sir Richard. The Correspondence of Richard Steele. Editor Blanchard, Rae, Oxford University Press, 1941.
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison, editors. The Guardian. J. Tonson.
Steele, Sir Richard et al., editors. The Guardian. University Press of Kentucky, 1982.
Steele, Sir Richard. The Plays of Richard Steele. Editor Kenny, Shirley Strum, Clarendon, 1971.
Addison, Joseph et al., editors. The Spectator (1711-1714). Clarendon Press, 1965.
Steele, Sir Richard, editor. The Tatler. Printed for the author.
Steele, Sir Richard, and Donald F. Bond, editors. The Tatler. Vol. 3 vols., Clarendon Press, 1987.
Steele, Sir Richard. The Tender Husband. Editor Winton, Calhoun, Edward Arnold, 1967.