Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
31 (1771): 275
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Textual Features | Edna Lyall | This is another English Civil War story, in which imaginary characters (a pair of courting lovers, a villain, the noble-hearted Charlotte who is based on EL
's nurse during her childhood, and Joscelyn Heyworth and... |
Textual Production | Catharine Macaulay | CM
published volume five of her History of England through Edward and Charles Dilly
, with a subtitle that reads From the Death of Charles I
to the Restoration of Charles II
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 31 (1771): 275 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Catharine Macaulay | She was apparently well advanced with volume 6 in October 1773, before she moved to Bath, though it did not reach the public till 1781. It and its companion volume, on the reign of... |
Dedications | Anna Maria Mackenzie | This novel is available from Chawton House LibraryNovels Online at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The dedication is dated 1 March and the book was reviewed by July. An advertisement for AMM
's previous novel appears at the... |
Textual Features | Delarivier Manley | This oriental tragedy, set in an exotically-imagined east, opposes a sizzlingly sexual female villain, Homais (played by Elizabeth Barry
), and a model, patient, suffering but excessive heroine, Princess Selima (played by Anne Bracegirdle |
Literary Setting | Delarivier Manley | Queen Zarah purports to be translated, not from French but from Italian. In it England is Albigion. The critical preface is in fact a translation of part of Morvan de Bellegarde
's Lettres curieuses... |
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 |
politics | John Milton | Charles II
signed an Act of Free and General Pardon, Indemnity and Oblivion—which also listed those unpardoned, and therefore condemned to death. JM
's name did not appear; he therefore ranked as pardoned. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | John Milton | |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Grisell Murray | As Grisell Baillie
's story makes clear, her father, Sir Patrick Hume, later Earl of Marchmont
, Grisell Murray's maternal grandfather, was an important figure in Scotland, a national and religious (Presbyterian) leader. So was... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Carola Oman | Of the various writing women connected with Henrietta Maria, CO
mentions Margaret Cavendish
as a serious-minded girl of literary aspirations, Oman, Carola. Henrietta Maria. Hodder and Stoughton. 152 |
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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Katherine Philips | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Teresia Constantia Phillips | Constantia had as godmother the dowager Duchess of Bolton
, who was an illegitimate grand-daughter of Charles II
through the once-notorious Duke of Monmouth. As a child Constantia was a member of the duchess's household... |
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