Pearson, Susanna. The Medallion. G. G. and J. Robinson.
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Literary Setting | Sarah Pearson | An introductory address To the Reviewers urges them (with the trembling deemed appropriate for a woman writer) not to read the book in the morning but in the period of good humour after dinner. Pearson, Susanna. The Medallion. G. G. and J. Robinson. 1: 7-8 |
Literary Setting | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | EIS
is nostalgic about the past here, but also somewhat confused. During her chosen period Rebecca and her contemporaries bore no resemblance to the young women of the present century, for they neither despised nor... |
Literary Setting | Anna Steele | The novel begins with the Lisle family taking up residence at the ill-fated house of Gardenhurst, an estate that had been gambled away by its young heir during the reign of Charles II
, and... |
Literary Setting | Jeanette Winterson | The novel is primarily set in seventeenth-century London during the reign of Charles II
, but it also features episodes in past, present, and future time. The text is divided by a section containing a... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | This narrative was apparently planned to fit its six illustrations: portraits of imaginary beauties by Edmund Thomas Parris
(whose work featured also in Gems of Beauty). The novel followed on the heels of Anna Jameson |
Intertextuality and Influence | George Bernard Shaw | The Festival Theatre
at Malvern first performed GBS
's Good King Charles
's Golden Days: A History Lesson, a comedy featuring actual historical figures. Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research. |
Health | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | |
Friends, Associates | Catharine Colace Ross | CCR
offered support and concern to Thomas Hog
(a minister near Auldearn on the Moray Firth, who ended up as a royal chaplain to King William
) while he was being persecuted for his... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Jones | MJ
corresponded with Charlotte Lennox
and with publisher Ralph Griffiths
and his wife Isabella
. Her friendship was valued by literary men like Samuel Johnson
, Joseph Spence
, Thomas Warton
, and apparently Bonnell Thornton |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Her father, Walter Singer
, a well-to-do wool merchant and a dissenting minister, had been imprisoned at Ilchester for his beliefs under Charles II
(and had met his future wife when she came prison visiting)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater | Of the ten children borne by Elizabeth (both as Lady Brackley and as Lady Bridgewater), seven outlived her although only four seem to have lived long enough to reach modern records: John
, born on... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater | Lionel Cranfield, third Earl of Middlesex
, challenged Lord Bridgewater (who had just been appointed guardian of his niece) to a duel in deliberately insulting language—Billingsgate dialect, Bridgewater called it, from the notoriously... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catharine Trotter | Her mother, born Sarah Ballenden, was related to three separate Scots noble families. She brought up her daughters at first on an Admiralty pension (discontinued on Charles II
's death, restored by Queen Anne
)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Grisell Murray | Lady Grisell or Grizell Hume
, later Baillie, was the daughter of Scottish Covenanter
Sir Patrick Hume (later Earl of Marchmont). Born on Christmas Day in 1665 at Redbraes Castle in Berwickshire, Grisell played... |
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