National Union Catalog. Roman and Littlefield.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 It included four previously unpublished essays, two of them on the... |
| Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | The omission was itself a political statement: the epilogue is a poem in praise of the then German prince who in due course became George II
, which also dwells on recent politically-caused friction between... |
| Textual Production | Mary Astell | MA
said she was recommending here a method for improving women's minds. The new work was re-issued in the year of its original publication, in a single volume with the first part of A Serious... |
| 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
. |
| Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
edited and published Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian and Freeholder, by Addison
and Steele
and others (with 1804 on the title-page). McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. xlv McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 421 |
| Textual Production | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | These poems relate or embroider on a tale of interracial lovers whose original source is a bare paragraph in Richard Ligon
's History of Barbados, 1657. Morton, Richard Everett. “Review of Frank Felsenstein, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>English Trader, Indian Maid</span>”;. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 13 , No. 1, pp. 86-8. 87 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | |
| Textual Production | Jane Brereton | Again as a Lady and through William Hinchliffe
, JB
printed An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele
upon the death of Mr. Addison. Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press. 78 English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
| Textual Features | Sarah Fielding | David Simple predates all fictional work by Samuel Johnson
and all but the earliest works by Henry Fielding
and Samuel Richardson
, which are sometimes mistakenly spoken of as its models. It may be seen... |
| Textual Features | Jane Brereton | |
| Textual Features | Frances Brooke | Mary Singleton, supposed author of this paper, with its trenchant comments on society and politics, is an unmarried woman on the verge of fifty, McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press. 14 |
| Textual Features | Delarivier Manley | This takes the form of a letter from the country. It mounts a bitter attack on Steele
. |
| Reception | Mary Pix | |
| Publishing | Susanna Centlivre | It was published the following month, ascribed to the Author of The Gamester, Monthly Catalogue, 1714 - 1717. Bernard Lintot. 1 (no. 1): 4 |
| Performance of text | Delarivier Manley | Steele
provided managerial help (and money, and a prologue) towards its stage success. Ballaster, Ros. “Early Women Writers: Lives and Times. Delarivier Manley (c. 1663-1724)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), Vol. 5 , No. 1, pp. 2-5. 3 |
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.