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Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Gerard | This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine |
Intertextuality and Influence | Phebe Gibbes | The title of this work quotes Pope
's phrase about woman as God's last, best gift to Adam after his creation. |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Gilding | Edward Pitcher
describes these poems, the last identified from her pen, printed and apparently written soon after childbirth, as gloomy in tone. Pitcher, Edward W. Woman’s Wit. Edwin Mellen Press. 311 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rumer Godden | Its setting is Catford Street, an ordinary, poor street in shabby postwar London, and the elegant Square round the corner. Its protagonist is a child waif, Lovejoy Mason; RG
's theme is the childhood... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | The title-page quotes and very slightly alters four lines from Pope
beginning What gay ideas crowd the vacant brain, Gore, Catherine. Mothers and Daughters. Bentley. title-page |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson
(whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. 2: 45-8 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | |
Education | Elizabeth Grant | EG
refers to a number of texts that influenced her as a child. She learned to read by the age of three, taught by loving aunts, and remembered in particular Puss in Boots, Bluebeard... |
Textual Features | Clotilde Graves | The Compleat Housewife, a comic ghost story, brings together a Southern American belle (who has married an English baronet) with his ancestress Lady Deborah Corbryan The story makes use of recipes drawn, says CG |
Textual Production | Clotilde Graves | CG
's progress as a dramatist continued uninterrupted into the new century. The Lovers' Battle, A Heroical Comedy in Rhyme, founded upon Alexander Pope
's Rape of the Lock, was published at both London... |
Textual Features | Sarah Green | The tone of the work is conservative, leavened with an intelligent concern for development of independent thinking. Topics of various letters include Conduct and Conversation, Forbearance, Chastity, Truth, Employment of Time... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | |
Textual Production | Germaine Greer | The first words of her title are quoted from a passage in Pope
's Dunciad which is, to put it mildly, unfriendly to the notion that a good poet might possibly be of the female... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susannah Gunning | Delves tells his own story as a boy and youth from the age of thirteen to twenty-two. He is brought up by Owen, the barber-scribe for the illiterate village (whom he supposes to be his... |
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