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Intertextuality and Influence | Ellen Johnston | In contrast to the life-writings of her working-class contemporary Hannah Cullwick
, EJ
's autobiography is remarkably self-reflexive and literary. She says that an account of her life in Dundee alone, her trials, disappointments, joys... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah Cowley | In the plot, marriage for love triumphs over arranged marriage: but Letitia does not reject Doricourt (to whom she was engaged when very young), but converts him. He would prefer in principle to keep his... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | The poem is one of exile, owing something to Goldsmith
's The Traveller, combining observation of nature with personal feeling: My weary footsteps hoped for rest in vain, / Steep on steep in rude... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Jane Vardill | Many of AJV
's poems reflect her learning. She incorporated lines of Greek in An Arctic Islander in London (October 1818), and based La Morte d'Arthur (European Magazine 79 (1821): 553-5, with annotations), on... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Edgeworth | Angelina, generally treated as a descendant of Charlotte Lennox
's Female Quixote, shows just how permeable is the boundary between ME
's juvenile and adult fiction. It warns against influence from the wrong... |
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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | This novel contains the first appearance of MEB
's serially-employed character, the proto-sensation novelist Sigismund Smith (although that bitter term of reproach, sensation, had not been invented for the terror of romancers in the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Mackenzie | A title-page quotation from John MiltonParadise Lost puts together, with an only an ellipsis between them, the persuasive powers of the fallen angel Belial (who could make the worse appear / The better reason) and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Medora Gordon Byron | The Englishman ties its first sentence to a quotation from Goldsmith
's Citizen of the World about spontaneous liking for certain individuals. Its first sentence is This spontaneous friendship is not more the offering of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Jacson | |
Friends, Associates | Samuel Johnson | Johnson had a talent for friendship which he kept well exercised: the names mentioned here represent only a selection of his friendships. His early London friends, whom he met during a comparatively poorly documented period... |
Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | During her childhood, ECK
associated with a variety of celebrated people through her family connections. Her mother was a close friend of painter and writer Frances Reynolds
(sister to the more famous painter Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Friends, Associates | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | Visitors to her parents' house included Oliver Goldsmith
and Samuel Johnson
, whom the Hawkins children nicknamed Polyphemus, after the one-eyed giant in the Odyssey. Hawkins, Laetitia-Matilda. Memoirs, Anecdotes, Facts and Opinions. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, and C. and J. Rivington. 1: 86 |
Friends, Associates | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Other Streatham habitueés were Sir Joshua Reynolds
, Arthur Murphy
, Edmund Burke
, Oliver Goldsmith
, Charles Burney
, and David Garrick
. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press. 157 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ellen Johnston | She stoutly rejects Goldsmith
's assertion that a woman who has stooped to folly can only die: I did not, however, feel inclined to die when I could no longer conceal what the world falsely... |
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