Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Charlotte Mew—A Memoir”. Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew, Gerald Duckworth, p. vii - xx.
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Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France
Standard Name: Marie-Antoinette,, Queen of France
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| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Mew | |
| Education | Mary McCarthy | Her time at at St Stephens and later at |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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... |
| Publishing | Margaret Holford | Probably a number of Holford's poems circulated in manuscript, as did one on a portrait of Marie Antoinette
. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2: 551-2 |
| 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 | Mary Hays | She was commissioned to produce this work for the occasion of |
| Literary Setting | Catherine Gore | The queen in question is Marie Antoinette
; the action takes place before and during the French Revolution, at the Trianon of Versailles and at a chateau near Epernay in Champagne. Gore, Catherine. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore. Editor Franceschina, John, Garland. 159, 195 |
| Textual Features | Rumer Godden | It is set in a Kashmir mountain village, where a young widow, Sophie, settles with her two children. Left short of money by her husband's death, she finds standard colonial life stultifying, feels that the... |
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