Watts, Susanna. The Insects in Council. Hurst, Chance; A. Cockshaw.
prelims
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Watts | The title-page quotes James Thomson
. The preface declares a serious, anxious, and most sincere desire to inculcate respect and tenderness towards all the inferior creatures. Watts, Susanna. The Insects in Council. Hurst, Chance; A. Cockshaw. prelims |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Tollet | ET
's reputation persisted for some time after her death. Mary Scott
praised her highly in The Female Advocate, 1774. John Duncombe
(though her posthumous publication was too late for inclusion in his Feminiad... |
Education | Lady Louisa Stuart | LLS
grew up under her mother's eye, and was educated through both reading and social contact. She later remembered reading Henry Mackenzie
's The Man of Feeling at fourteen and fearing she might not cry... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Strutt | The title-page quotes Shakespeare
: later on Pope
, Thomson
, Thomas Tickell
, Charles Cotton
, and others are quoted too. Characters include a seducer and promiser-breaker who dies in a duel. The central... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Smith | This poem moves from Romantic natural description with a touch of Thomson
(From ev'ry bough, from ev'ry jutting rock / The chrystals hang;—the torrent's roar has ceas'd, —/ As if that voice which call'd... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare
, Milton
, Pope
, Thomson
, Goldsmith
, William Mason
, John Langhorne
, Burns
, Erasmus Darwin
, Edward Young |
Textual Features | Sarah, Lady Piers | Here she praises England (like James Thomson
later) for its landscape, climate, and system of government. English weather, in which the seasons succeed each other with calm and regularity, becomes an image for the peaceable... |
Wealth and Poverty | Radagunda Roberts | She left the stock, the house, and several keepsakes to her sister, to her nephew Alfred William both her inkstand and her copy of John Hawkesworth
's translation of Fénelon
's Télémaque (apparently recognizing William... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Plumptre | AP
quotes Pope
on her title-page (about indifference to fame) and Shakespeare
, Thomson
, Savage
, and others as chapter-headings. She sets her novel around the lakes of Killarney in Ireland. Antonia is... |
Literary responses | Sarah Wentworth Morton | Julie Ellison
, who traces in Ouâbi the influence of male British poets like Thomson
and Goldsmith
, and their sentimental, topographical, masculinist traditions, Ellison, Julie. “Race and Sensibility in the Early Republic: Ann Eliza Bleecker and Sarah Wentworth Morton”. Subjects and Citizens, edited by Michael Moon and Cathy N. Davidson, Duke University Press, pp. 57-86. 60 |
Textual Production | Jan Morris | The title comes from James Thomson
's Rule, Britannia, 1740: When Britain first at heaven's command / Arose from out the azure main, her guardian angels sang of ruling the waves, of never being slaves. Plamondon, Marc R., editor. Representative Poetry Online. http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/. |
Textual Production | Jane Marcet | The Seasons, Stories for Very Young Children, 1832-3, went through many editions. Like James Thomson
before her, JM
began with winter. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Mackenzie | The novel begins without preliminary paratext. An epigraph from James Thomson
(Ah! little think the gay licentious proud . . .) declares sympathy for the underdog, but this is not, as the title... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Latter | The first letter, the earliest piece in the volume, was said to have been written seventeen years ago at the age of seventeen: to Myra, which suggests that ML
may have been one among... |
Textual Production | Jane Johnson | Here JJ
mixed the intellectual or spiritual with the practical: the same page bears a recipe for syllabub and the sentiment I had rather be a favourite of Angels than of men, but I believe... |