Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable.
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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
,... |
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 | 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 | 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... |
Textual Production | Annie Keary | She had worked on this novel both at Pégomas near Cannes in the South of France and at her home in Kensington. For some reason she found none of her usual pleasure in composition... |
Textual Production | Sarah Fielding | SF
worked with James Harris
on a memoir, An Essay on the Life and Genius of Henry Fielding, for a projected edition of his works; but it never appeared. Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli. xl |
Textual Production | Patricia Beer | PB
published Driving West: Poems, whose contents balance the urban and rural; its title suggests Donne
's Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward, but the name this poem invokes is Henry Fielding
, the lawyer on circuit. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. 1976 Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research. 26 |
Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Before she did so in public, LMWM
replied in private to Pope's attacks, in responses to and imitations of his Dunciad: mock-epic fantasies in which Pope and his confederates appear somewhat awkwardly as allies... |
Textual Production | Sarah Fielding | |
Textual Production | Anna Maria Bennett | AMB
published Juvenile Indiscretions, A Novel, written in the style of Henry Fielding
. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 375 |
Textual Production | Mary Collyer | Marivaux' full title, La vie de Marianne; ou, Les aventures de Madame la Comtesse de*****, suggests a story from actual life. MC
wrote most of her version before 1741 (very soon after the French... |
Textual Production | Teresia Constantia Phillips | The narrator claims not to be TCP
, but a close male friend. A prime suspect is the hack writer Paul Whitehead
, who was one of her lovers. Nevertheless the tone has convinced many... |