Crawford, Elizabeth. “Posts tagged Mariana Starke”. Woman and her Sphere.
Millecent Thomas
Standard Name: Thomas, Millecent
Connections
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Friends, Associates | Mariana Starke | Her closest contemporary friend was Millecent Parkhurst
, daughter of the scholarly clergyman John Parkhurst
. This family also lived in a still surviving Epsom house, Abele Grove. |
Leisure and Society | Mariana Starke | MS
and her family were great supporters of literature through the subscription system. She subscribed in 1781 to Anne Francis
's Poetical Translation of the Song of Solomon, from the original Hebrew, which was... |
Publishing | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | Genlis' daughters gave performances of these plays to large audiences (up to five hundred people). Dow, Gillian. “Books owned by Jane Austen’s niece, Caroline, donated to Chawton House Library”. The Female Spectator, Vol. 1 n.s. , No. 4, pp. 1-3. 2 |
Textual Production | Mariana Starke | A version of children's plays by Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
, The Theatre of Education. A New Translation from the French, appears to be the anonymous work of MS
and the little-known Millecent Thomas
(formerly Parkhurst). Dow, Gillian. “The British Reception of Madame de Genlis’s Writings for Children: Plays and Tales of Instruction and Delight”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 29 , No. 3, pp. 367-81. 369 Pitcher, Edward W. “Mariana Starke and Millecent Thomas: Early Translators of Genlis’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Le théâtre à l’usage des jeunes personnes (1779-1780)</span>”;. Notes and Queries, Vol. 45 (243) , No. 1, pp. 81-2. 81-2 |
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Texts
Genlis, Stéphanie-Félicité de. The Theatre of Education. Translators Starke, Mariana and Millecent Thomas, J. Walker, 1787.