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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 | 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... |
Publishing | George Eliot | In submitting this anonymous manuscript to Blackwood
, Lewes
invoked the names of Oliver Goldsmith
(author of The Vicar of Wakefield) and of Jane Austen
. The firm of Blackwood
turned out to be... |
Occupation | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | She had suddenly conceived the ambition of becoming an artist (the only profession open to her, as a girl of good family) when she heard that this was the choice of the cousin with whom... |
Textual Features | Violet Fane | The unnamed male narrator describes himself as a foreigner, but has lived in London long enough to be mistaken for an Englishman. Fane, Violet. The Edwin and Angelina Papers. World Office. 4 |
Textual Production | Violet Fane | Under the initial V, VF
contributed a series of satirical sketches on the English upper classes to Edmund Yates
's The World. They were collected as The Edwin and Angelina Papers (1878). The... |
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... |
Textual Production | Phebe Gibbes | PG
issued a third novel this same year, The Fruitless Repentance; or, The History of Miss Kitty Le Fever (reprinted in facsimile by Garland
in 1974). Gibbes, Phebe. “Introduction”. Hartly House, Calcutta, edited by Michael J. Franklin, Oxford University Press, p. xi - lvii. xiv n16 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Gilding | Like her, he was a contributor to magazines: a juvenile work by him appeared in the Lady's Magazine in 1775, and he later contributed to the European and other magazines under the name of Fidelio... |
Textual Features | Catherine Gore | The title-page quotes Byron
pronouncing shame to the land of the Gaul. Gore, Catherine. The Lettre de Cachet; and, The Reign of Terror. J. Andrews. title-page Gore, Catherine. The Lettre de Cachet; and, The Reign of Terror. J. Andrews. iii |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Griffith | Besides a splendid frontispiece portrait of EG
in the first edition, with her published works around her, the book was further illustrated with plates originating in the magazine. The other contributors were Oliver Goldsmith
(who... |
Textual Features | Jane Harvey | JH
's preface discusses the moral and artistic duties of the writer; she assumes that this person is male until she reaches the diffidence and timidity which in the bosom of a female writer is... |
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 |
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... |
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