Kushigian, Nancy, and Stephen C. Behrendt, editors. Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period.
Connections
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Reception | Jane Austen | |
Textual Features | Matilda Betham-Edwards | This man, a French Protestant condemned to the galleys as a heretic, had published authentic memoirs of his harrowing experiences in 1757. Oliver Goldsmith
(who may possibly have met Marteilhe) had translated them pseudonymously into... |
Textual Features | Susanna Blamire | It is generally supposed that this poem owes something to Oliver Goldsmith
's The Deserted Village, |
Textual Features | Ann Eliza Bleecker | She used the writing of the pastoral to build a relationship with Tomhanick, Americanizing the topographical tradition to create a suitable backdrop for the life of a poet. Her work includes meditations on death... |
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... |
Education | Anne Brontë | Their later reading drew on a selection of standard texts including Oliver Goldsmith
's History of England, Hannah More
's Moral Sketches, John Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress, Isaac Watts
's Doctrine of... |
Education | Charlotte Brontë | Their education continued at home from a selection of standard texts including Oliver Goldsmith
's History of England, Hannah More
's Moral Sketches, John Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress, Isaac Watts
's Doctrine... |
Education | Emily Brontë | Thereafter, Patrick Brontë
educated his remaining children at home, using standard educational texts including Thomas Salmon
's A New Geographical and Historical Grammar, a condensed version of Oliver Goldsmith
's History of England,... |
Textual Production | Frances Brooke | The full title was Elements of the History of England from the Invasion of the Romans to the Reign of George II; it bore her name. The Critical Review dealt with the earlier volumes... |
Publishing | Anne Burke | A payment from the publisher of five guineas, with the same amount again to follow if the book earned it, made to Anne Ustick (or perhaps Urtick) suggests that this may have been AB |
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... |
Textual Production | Medora Gordon Byron | It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press
, with a quotation from Francis Bacon
on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare
, Swift
, Prior
, Thomson
, Goldsmith
, Edward Young |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | DPC
was one of those claiming serious status for the novel by literary allusion. She uses Horace
on her title-page, Pope
to head the whole novel, and for chapter-headings Chaucer
, Shakespeare
, Goldsmith
... |
Textual Features | Eliza Cook | Her poetic topics strongly reflect her reliance on well-tried promoters of sentiment: death, parting, gypsies, favourite horses and dogs, local feeling for Scotland or Ireland. The collection closes with a section of poems for... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Cassandra Cooke | In a preface CC
says she found the incident that forms the centre of this novel in The Christian Life by Dr John Scott
(that is The Christian Life, from its beginning to its consummation... |
Timeline
1705: According to Oliver Goldsmith, Beau Nash...
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1705
According to Oliver Goldsmith
, Beau Nash
arrived in Bath, whose social life he was to dominate for so long, the same year that the town began its brilliant architectural redesigning.
September 1759-1763: The Hon. Mrs Stanhope issued a periodical...
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September 1759-1763
The Hon. Mrs Stanhope issued a periodical entitled The Lady's Magazine, or polite companion for the fair sex. Its aim was instruction as well as entertainment, and it sometimes strikes a proto-feminist note.
24 January 1760-14 August 1761: The Public Ledger printed Oliver Goldsmith's...
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24 January 1760-14 August 1761
The Public Ledger printed Oliver Goldsmith
's series of essays entitled Letters from a Citizen of the World to his Friends in the East.
26 June 1764: Oliver Goldsmith published his well-known...
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26 June 1764
Oliver Goldsmith
published his well-known History of England; it was well reviewed and remained a standard pedagogical text for generations.
1765: The didactic History of Little Goody Two-Shoes...
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1765
The didactic History of Little Goody Two-Shoes was published by John Newbery: the most popular children's book of its period. It had fourteen reprints before 1814.
27 March 1766: Oliver Goldsmith published his single, sentimental-humorous...
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27 March 1766
Oliver Goldsmith
published his single, sentimental-humorous novel, The Vicar of Wakefield.
1767: Oliver Goldsmith selected and edited Poems...
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1767
Oliver Goldsmith
selected and edited Poems for Young Ladies, dividing it into three sections: Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining.
29 January 1768: The earlier of Oliver Goldsmith's two comedies,...
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29 January 1768
The earlier of Oliver Goldsmith
's two comedies, The Good Natur'd Man, opened at Covent Garden Theatre
, where it ran long enough for three author's benefit nights. It was printed the same year.
26 May 1770: Oliver Goldsmith published his best-known...
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26 May 1770
Oliver Goldsmith
published his best-known poem, The Deserted Village.
15 March 1773: Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer...
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15 March 1773
Oliver Goldsmith
's She Stoops to Conquer (second of his two comedies) had its first performance.
By 24 December 1881: Lillie Langtry became the first English society...
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By 24 December 1881
Lillie Langtry
became the first English society woman to appear professionally on the stage when she played Kate Hardcastle in Goldsmith
's She Stoops to Conquer at the Haymarket Theatre
, London.
1905: K. L. Montgomery, the pseudonym for the two...
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1905
K. L. Montgomery
, the pseudonym for the two sisters Kathleen and Letitia (who were distantly related to Oliver Goldsmith
), published the contemporary love story Love in the Lists: A Pension Comedy.
Texts
Goldsmith, Oliver. Collected Works. Editor Friedman, Arthur, Clarendon, 1966.
Griffith, Elizabeth, and Oliver Goldsmith. Novellettes. Fielding and Walker, 1780.