Miguel de Cervantes

Standard Name: Cervantes, Miguel de

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Textual Production Barbara Hofland
BH published with LongmanTales of the Manor, with a quotation from Cervantes on the title-page.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 536
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press.
72
Textual Production Christian Isobel Johnstone
This time she published as the author of Clan-Albin. Her title-page quotes a remark by Cervantes ' Sancho Panza about story-telling. This was the last novel that she published in volume form.
Textual Production Elizabeth Jolley
EJ invoked as an appropriate description of her own motivation, Flaubert 's dictum that writing comes from an inner wound.
Joussen, Ulla. “An Interview with Elizabeth Jolley”. Kunapipi, Vol.
15
, No. 2, pp. 37-43.
40
She said of Johnson 's Rasselas and Goethe 's Elective Affinities (both of which...
Textual Production Dora Carrington
Carrington provided five illustrations for a school edition of Don Quixote by Cervantes , published by the Oxford University Press .
Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press.
45
Textual Production Margaret Oliphant
MO 's Cervantes, also written for her edited series of Blackwood 's Foreign Classics for English Readers, appeared.
Biographer Elisabeth Jay agrees with this date,
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
342
but the Feminist Companion and OCLC WorldCat both give the date as 1880.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Amelia B. Edwards
ABE 's earliest publications included A Summary of English History, From the Roman Conquest to the Present Time, 1856, and The History of France, from the Conquest of Gaul to the Peace of 1856...
Textual Production George Eliot
Many early extant letters of GE 's date from her unhappy, adolescent, Evangelical period, and have a tone of self-righteousness and censoriousness of others and of herself which is not pleasant to modern readers. In...
Textual Production Susanna Haswell Rowson
This theatre was new, modelled on English theatres but with the American eagle prominent over the proscenium arch. Rowson herself played the female lead, Olivia, and spoke an epilogue in her own person, saying she...
Textual Production Augusta Gregory
Knowing she had not long to live, AG published Three Last Plays, a volume which included The Would-Be Gentleman (adapted from Molière ), Sancho's Master (from Don Quixote by Cervantes ), and her last play, Dave.
Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum.
285
Mikhail, Edward Halim. Lady Gregory: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. Whitston.
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Textual Features Alethea Lewis
She heads her novel with a prefatory letter to the Rev. William Johnstone , who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities...
Textual Features Sara Coleridge
SC argues the merits of appreciating people, women in particular, for their moral worth and not for their physical beauty. She writes that by fostering our attention too exclusively on what is external, we overlook...
Textual Features Frances Arabella Rowden
An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820)
Rowden, Frances Arabella. A Biographical Sketch of the Most Distinguished Writers of Ancient and Modern Times.
1829, iv
explains that the book is written for the young scholar and hopes to demonstrate the connexion between ancient and modern literature (the...
Occupation Gustave Doré
GD 's work was cosmopolitan. In addition to writers from other European countries like Dante and Cervantes , he illustrated Milton and Coleridge , and did a series of engravings of London for a work...
Literary responses Charlotte Lennox
In Fielding's detailed comparison of the novel with Don Quixote, Lennox emerges superior to Cervantes in morality, probability, and character-drawing, though Cervantes is superior in other ways. This enthusiastic review was widely reprinted.
Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford.
176
Intertextuality and Influence Aphra Behn
The opening scene introduces two unmarried lovers who have obviously only just got out of bed. Characters refer with off-hand frankness to sex between men and boys. The subplot comes from Cervantes .
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press.
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7 October 1571: At the battle of Lepanto on the Gulf of Corinth,...

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7 October 1571

At the battle of Lepanto on the Gulf of Corinth, Turkish or Muslim sea power was crushed by Venetian and Spanish forces commanded by Don John of Austria .

16 January 1605: Miguel de Cervantes published at Madrid the...

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16 January 1605

Miguel de Cervantes published at Madrid the first part of his immensely influential mock-romanceDon Quixote; copies reached England by the summer.

1996: US punk writer Kathy Acker published Pussy,...

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1996

US punk writer Kathy Acker published Pussy, King of the Pirates, a feminist-pornographic reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson 's Treasure Island in which the treasure-seekers are a band of women pirates.

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