British Book News. British Council.
(1958): 739
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ann Bridge | Though the authors declare on their opening page that the modern need is to supplement the exhaustive Baedeker with a selective guidebook (something designed to tell travellers what they cannot afford to miss), they actually... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rebecca West | This series of essays grapples with the relation of the human will to religious and civil authority, as illustrated in various masterpieces of Western literature. British Book News. British Council. (1958): 739 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Seward | AS
's correspondence often deals with literary matters as well as with social matters and personalities. She writes with astonishing freedom to Hester Piozzi
about the latter's travel book Observations and Reflections: not only... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hester Mulso Chapone | When Richardson offered her a list of examples of filial disobedience, she replied that no doubt an equally heinous list could be produced of parental oppression. With Carter
she mulled over religious and literary questions... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sheila Kaye-Smith | Here she relates significant moments in her life to what she was reading at the time. She says that her reading, directed at first by chance and the choices of others, later moved towards what... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Montagu | EM
seems to have influenced this work as a whole, in persuading Lyttelton
to reshape it into dialogue from the epistolary form (letters from the dead to the living). Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable. 2: 179 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Vernon Lee | In her first essay, Lee offers a summary analysis of the English novelistic tradition. Judging them especially, though not entirely, on their treatments of morality, she evaluates writers including Jane Austen
, Maria Edgeworth
,... |
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
. National Union Catalog. Roman and Littlefield. |
Textual Production | George Eliot | In December 1870 she began writing Miss Brooke, a narrative which became part of Middlemarch as the history of its heroine. Not long after this she thought of combining this story of a daughter... |
Textual Production | Julia Frankau | In JF
's Joseph in Jeopardy (whose hero's first name, mentioned in the title, seems to allude both to the Bible and to Henry Fielding
's Joseph Andrews) the hero resists seduction by a... |
Textual Production | Anna Maria Mackenzie | Francis, The Philanthropist is included among Chawton House Library
's Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The author (not AMM
) says she intends, even though she admires Richardson
, to emulate Henry Fielding
and Smollett
... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Justice | Again the print-run was 600 copies. At the end of this year, in December, Henry Fielding
published his final novel, also titled Amelia. The continuing advertisements of Justice's Amelia up to this date are... |
Textual Production | Anna Maria Mackenzie | The first volume has a frontispiece (two women meeting a man in armour) and the title-page quotes some lines about the insecurity of a throne won through ambition. These are ascribed to Fielding
's Merope... |
Textual Production | Sarah Fielding | Henry Fielding
's novel Joseph Andrews was published: its inset tale of Leonora and Horatio was probably written by SF
. Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli. xxxviii |
Textual Production | Evelyn Sharp | ES
wrote by hand a long letter from Bow Street Police Court to C. P. Scott
, editor of the Manchester Guardian and thus her employer, in the light of her probably fast-approaching incarceration. The... |