Michel de Montaigne
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Standard Name: Montaigne, Michel de
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Anne-Thérèse de Lambert | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
opens In the Heart of the Vosges with a quotation from Montaigne
. In it she brings together new work, sketches which had been published serially in magazines, and reprinted material from earlier books... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah, Lady Cowper | The diary's first volume opens with a preface which expresses conventional modesty bluntly, without the customary effort at elegance or grace: Books generally begin with a Preface which draws in the Reader to go on... |
Occupation | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
acted as patron to a number of writers (all male so far as is known), most notably Richard Savage
and Henry Fielding
, but also Edward Young
and Samuel Boyse
. Books to which... |
Occupation | Lady Anne Clifford | |
Textual Production | Fanny Aikin Kortright | She says that, not being personally known to Beecher Stowe, she has not asked leave for her dedication, but that Stowe
's work for the black slaves suggests she would favour a work written to... |
Textual Production | Anna Maria Bennett | It bore a quotation from Montaigne
on the title-page. AMB
says the errors in her text sprang from its having been written far from home (in Edinburgh), in the greatest Distress, both of Mind... |
Timeline
20 October 1595
Michel de Montaigne
's Essays were entered in the Stationers' Register
, three years after the author's death.
1603
1622
Marie le Jars de Gournay
(niece of Michel de Montaigne
) published what became her best-known work, L'Egalité des hommes et des femmes.