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Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France
Standard Name: Marie-Antoinette,, Queen of France
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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Frances Sarah Hoey | A lifelong Francophile, FSH
supplemented her income through translations of twenty-seven French and Italian texts, seven in collaboration with John Lillie
. During the 1870's and 1880's she produced an average of more than one... |
| Publishing | Margaret Holford | Probably a number of Holford's poems circulated in manuscript, as did one on a portrait of Marie Antoinette
. |
| Textual Features | Lucille Iremonger | It relates the story told in a book called An Adventure, 1911, by Charlotte Moberly
and Eleanor Frances Jourdain
, Principal and Deputy Principal of St Hugh's College
(which LI
herself had attended). In... |
| Travel | Ellis Cornelia Knight | They first spent some time in Paris, where a highlight of their stay was a sight of Louis XVI
and Marie Antoinette
at the Palace of Versailles. Knight, Ellis Cornelia. The Autobiography of Miss Knight. Editor Fulford, Roger, William Kimber & Co. 37 |
| Travel | Ellis Cornelia Knight | Naples was then the capital of the ancien-régime kingdom of Naples and Sicily (also known as the Two Sicilies), and they were presented there to its queen, Maria Carolina
, whom ECK
found to be... |
| 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 |
| Textual Features | Hilary Mantel | Mantel's starting point was her choice, when invited to select a book as gift for a celebrity, of Caroline Weber
's Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette
Wore to the Revolution as a present for... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Martineau | The Peasant and the Prince treats the plight of Louis XIV
and Marie Antoinette
during the French Revolution. It ends with moralising comment: If such a people in such a land were miserable, some... |
| Education | Mary McCarthy | Her time at at St Stephens and later at |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Mew | CM
was very close to her younger sister Anne
, her only living sibling not confined to an institution. Anne, who bore a striking resemblance to Marie Antoinette
, Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Charlotte Mew—A Memoir”. Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew, Gerald Duckworth, p. vii - xx. ix |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Moody | Personal matters mingle with others of public or topical interest, as EM
addresses Joseph Priestley
on the inter-relation of matter and spirit, Marie Antoinette
on her sufferings before her execution, and Dr Thomas Huet
on... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jean Plaidy | The title of this last book, adapting from the drinking song about girls sung by Charles Surface in Richard Brinsley Sheridan
's The School for Scandal, suggests the attitude taken to the high-living behaviour... |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | JP
's next two Victoria Holt novels appeared in 1966 and 1967: Menfreya (published in the USA as Menfreya in the Morning) and The King of the Castle, respectively. She then allowed Holt... |
| Travel | Mary Robinson | MR
visited France; in Paris she was feted by society, and received a valuable present from Marie Antoinette
. The Highfill
dictionary dates this a couple of years later. Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, pp. 19-64. 30, 63 Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 13: 35-6 |
| Textual Production | Mary Robinson |
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