Gore, Catherine. Cecil; or, The Adventures of a Coxcomb. R. Bentley.
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Health | Margiad Evans | As a child of about three she had terrible nightmares about people (nuns) who were running away from something, on fire and dying. She had dreadful dreams again at about seventeen, and then a recurrent... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | She quotes Byron
on the title-page. Gore, Catherine. Cecil; or, The Adventures of a Coxcomb. R. Bentley. title-page |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Welsh Carlyle | In her youth Jane Welsh composed verse translations from texts by Goethe
and Pierre Cardenal
, and of Chateaubriand
's Atala. She also wrote a number of original short poems; two of those that... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Caroline Lamb | This is a rollicking, fizzing, flighty, purposely excessive poem. It parodies yet also hitches a lift on Byron
's own whimsical style. Impersonating the male poet who lambasts Our maudlin, hey-down-derrified pathetic Lamb, Lady Caroline. A New Canto. William Wright. 27 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | Without ever owning the complete works of Théophile Gautier
, Alphonse Daudet
, Shakespeare
, Byron
, or Swinburne
, she read bits and pieces of them all, and they helped to shape her style... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Georgiana Chatterton | She headed her chapters with quotations which draw on European as well as English literature: Petrarch
, Byron
, Germaine de Staël
. In its early stages the book may read like a courtship novel... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Selina Davenport | It opens with England, with all thy faults I love thee still!—a quotation not from Byron
's Beppo, which lay still two years in the future, but from Cowper
's The Task (whence... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | The volume cost nine shillings and sixpence, and when the edition of 1,000 sold out, FH
's share of the profits split with John Murray
was £66. According to recent editors of the text, the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Beeton | Notwithstanding the putative focus on management, the bulk of the 44-chapter book is taken up with discussion of food, from the chapters on Arrangement and Economy of the Kitchen and Introduction to Cookery to the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Desai | Influenced by Eliot
's Four Quartets, Clear Light of Day deals with time as destroyer and preserver, and with what the bondage of time does to people. Gopal, N. Raj. A Critical Study of the Novels of Anita Desai. Atlantic Publishers and Distributors. 90 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mathilde Blind | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet E. Wilson | A number of HEW
's epigraphs to chapters remain untraced, and some may be her own work. Those identified bear witness to considerable reading: among English writers she quotes Shelley
, Byron
, Eliza Cook |
Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth
, Byron
, Coleridge
, Goethe
, Schiller
—and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger |
Intertextuality and Influence | Theodora Benson | While the title alludes to Lewis Carroll
, the chapters are headed with quotations which begin with Shakespeare
and Verlaine
, move through such less usual sources as Punch and Rupert Brooke
, and conclude... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ellen Johnston | In contrast to the life-writings of her working-class contemporary Hannah Cullwick
, EJ
's autobiography is remarkably self-reflexive and literary. She says that an account of her life in Dundee alone, her trials, disappointments, joys... |
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