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politics | Ann Jebb | Her obituarist wrote that her zeal in the cause of civil and religious liberty was unabated by her husband's death. Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol. 7 , pp. 597 - 604, 661. 661 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Anne Grant | After the guilloting of the French king Louis XVI
, AG
formulated an explicit statement of the political nature of female virtue, as she asserted the responsibility of (upper-class) women for the Revolution. I... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Inchbald | Every One Has His Fault, a comedy by EI
, opened at Covent Garden
, after being postponed for a week for fear of coinciding with the guillotining of Louis XVI of France
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 1516-17 O’Quinn, Daniel. “Bread: The Eruption and Interruption of Politics in Elizabeth Inchbald’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Every One Has His Fault</span>”;. European Romantic Review, Vol. 18 , No. 2, pp. 149-57. O'Quinn 149 |
Literary Setting | Catherine Gore | The title-page quotes Shakespeare
's Richard II about the deposing of a king. The novel opens with precision: at five o'clock on 22 June 1791, with aristocrats fearful for their fate in the aftermath of... |
Leisure and Society | Anna Margaretta Larpent | On 17 April 1790 AML
went to Mary Champion de Crespigny
's private theatre and saw a performance of Mariana Starke
's tragedy The British Orphans. She was at the theatre (a public one... |
Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | Wherever they went the Knights always met, and always admired, members of the relevant royal family. On a visit to the Palace of Versailles during their time in Paris, they were able to see Louis XVI |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Harcourt | He was the opposite of his wife in one respect. In 1770 his father had said of him (in connection with letters): so great is his aversion to writing that without an absolute necessity he... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Honoré de Balzac | For many years HB
was romantically linked to Madame de Berny
, a god-daughter of Louis XVI
and Marie-Antionette
. He was devastated by her death in 1836. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Burney | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Grace Elliott | GE
's relationship with the duc d'Orléans
is known to her readers only from her account of him in the days when he had moved on to other women and was increasingly showing a sympathy... |
Cultural formation | Germaine de Staël | She was born into the wealthy and powerful bourgeoisie and was just eight years old when Louis XVI
succeeded to the French throne. Her parents were both Swiss, but had settled in France. Owing to... |
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