Cook, Ann. Professed Cookery. White, 1754.
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Cultural formation | Ann Cook | AC
seems to remind her reader that she has risen socially through her own efforts when she calls her position as a married inn-keeper a middling state. Cook, Ann. Professed Cookery. White, 1754. 206 Henry Fielding
, for instance, presents some... |
Education | U. A. Fanthorpe | Here, she said later, she came to life under the influence of her tutor, Dorothy Bednarowska
, who taught me to read on the nuance and complexity of Chaucer
's Troilus and Criseyde. This... |
Education | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | In the house of an aunt she was surprised to find novels (particularly those of Richardson
) a topic of conversation, Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne. Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. Hankin, Christiana C.Editor , Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858. 1: 118 |
Education | Sarah Orne Jewett | She read extensively as a child, and came early to authors as diverse as Jane Austen
, George Eliot
, Margaret Oliphant
, Henry Fielding
, Laurence Sterne
, Elizabeth Gaskell
and Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Education | Sybille Bedford | The idea had been that Jack and Suzan Robbins should select a boarding school for Sibylle and have her to stay for the holidays. Instead, with the money provided by her family and trustees, they... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Gilding | Like her, he was a contributor to magazines: a juvenile work by him appeared in the Lady's Magazine in 1775, and he later contributed to the European and other magazines under the name of Fidelio... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Fielding | SF
's most important sibling was her brother Henry
, first as the eldest child and later as a highly successful novelist and playwright (as well as theatre manager and lawyer). She kept house for... |
Fictionalization | Eliza Haywood | EH
's reputation during her lifetime and immediately afterwards (bolstered by Pope's image of her in the Dunciad) was of the quintessential practitioner of the novel, seen as low-grade entertainment both intellectually and morally... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Lennox | She met Sarah Fielding
at Richardson's house, and became friendly also with Henry Fielding
, Saunders Welch
(the philanthropist, who later offered her employment), and Lord Orrery
. She was presumably the Mrs Lenox with... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Collier | JC
was a lifelong friend of Sarah Fielding
and her brother Henry
(who famously mentioned in a book inscription her understanding more than Female, mixed with virtues almost more than human), Londry, Michael. “Our dear Miss Jenny Collier”. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 13 -14. 14 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Aphra Behn | Behn is presented in this piece as dressed in the loose Robe de Chambre with her neck and Breasts bare; how much Fire in her Eye! Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999. 126 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Strutt | Her picture of ecclesiastical life features the other-worldly curate, Slender, the satirically-drawn rector, the Rev. Mr Plufty, and their respective daughters. ES
gives much of the story in the words of Slender's journal (always unworldly... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emma Parker | In her paratexts EP
addresses the reader as he and (somewhat familiarly, in the style of Henry Fielding
) as thou. The preface takes a playfully insulting tone with readers. She tells them they... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Bennett | Readers first encounter the young male protagonist, Henry Dellmore, bearing the nickname of Mumps, and suffering as a pupil at a Dickensian school, under the proprietor Mr Puffardo. Once taken up by benefactors, he... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Collyer | The protagonist's name had been used by both Richardson
(in Clarissa) and Henry Fielding
(in Tom Jones) as a kind of generic appellation for a specific maid or young woman of the servant... |