Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France

Standard Name: Marie-Antoinette,, Queen of France

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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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
MR , as a Friend to Humanity, published through John Bell a pamphlet entitled Impartial Reflections on the Present Situation of the Queen of France.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen.
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Textual Production Mary Robinson
MR published her Monody to the Memory of the Late Queen of France.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen.
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Intertextuality and Influence Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
The pamphlet takes the form of a letter to an unnamed man. Along with the particular example of her husband, it attacks the government of England: but how could this country be anything but the...
Leisure and Society Sarah Scott
Sarah belonged to a number of libraries, both the circulating and the subscription variety. She seldom missed a new publication either in English or French. She was more critical of what she read than was...
Textual Features Anna Seward
AS 's correspondence often deals with literary matters as well as with social matters and personalities. She writes with astonishing freedom to Hester Piozzi about the latter's travel book Observations and Reflections: not only...
Material Conditions of Writing Germaine de Staël
Shocked by the Reign of Terror in France, GS from her exile in Switzerland published Réflexions sur le procès de la reine: a brave anonymous pamphlet pleading for the queen 's life.
Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol.
4
, pp. 12-35.
25
Lonchamp, Frédéric-Charles. L’Œuvre Imprimé de Madame Germaine de Staël. Suisse.
14
Textual Features Christina Stead
The protagonist couple in this novel are both US Communists in the 1940s. Stephen Howard is an Ivy-League-educated child of privilege; his wife, Emily Wilkes, who says she comes from Hix-on-the-Stix, is an exuberant...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eglinton Wallace
She recommends the study of history, and her moral exhortation leans heavily on anecdotal, historical examples. (She also uses quotations from her own unpublished tragedy.)
Wallace, Eglinton. Letter from Lady Wallace to Capt. William Wallace. J. Debrett.
62
She cites Queen Elizabeth (among many others) as a...
Characters Sarah Williams
This volume combines prose stories for children with a few poems suitable for adult readers.
Plumptre, Edward Hayes, and Sarah Williams. “Memoir”. Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse, Strahan, p. vii - xxxiii.
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E. H. Plumptre later quoted two entire poems from this book in his memoir of SW which was published...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Wollstonecraft
MW was replying to a number of authoritative male texts about the nature of women: by Burke (who in Reflections on the Revolution in France had glorified Marie-Antoinette and dismissed non-queenly femininity as animal), Rousseau
Textual Production Ann Yearsley
AY published An Elegy on Marie Antoinette.
Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press.
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