Oliver Goldsmith

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Standard Name: Goldsmith, Oliver

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Publishing Anne Marsh
Harriet Martineau was amazed when AM first read her one of these tales, The Admiral's Daughter, and felt that their hostess later that evening (Sarah Wedgwood ) must have been almost equally amazed...
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
Reception Jane Austen
In 1933 there was excitement in the book-collecting world when a small collection of books that Austen had owned (by writers like Ariosto , Goldsmith , Hume , and Thomson ) appeared in the catalogue...
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,
Kushigian, Nancy, and Stephen C. Behrendt, editors. Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period.
though SB represents a whole range of country working people with markedly more familiarity and realism than does Goldsmith.
Textual Features Alethea Lewis
She heads her novel with a prefatory letter to the Rev. William Johnstone , who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities...
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...
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.
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In the end he reveals himself to be an inhabitant of Japan...
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
A preface combats the general prejudice against a single volume
Gore, Catherine. The Lettre de Cachet; and, The Reign of Terror. J. Andrews.
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by citing works of fiction which are short but widely admired...
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...
Textual Features Harriet Smythies
In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...
Textual Features Elizabeth Strutt
The book had coloured illustrations. ES adopts here a relaxed, informal tone. She pays more attention than formerly to scenery (though she insists that only truly personal responses are interesting), but also to the humdrum...
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...
Textual Features Tabitha Tenney
Choice of women writers is fairly generous, with excerpts from Hester Mulso Chapone , John Aikin and Anna Letitia Barbauld (Evenings at Home), Susanna Haswell Rowson , Elizabeth Carter , Hester Thrale ,...
Textual Production Charlotte Lennox
CL had probably begun this play immediately after the appearance of her novel Henrietta, 1759, which it reworks. Indeed, the play bore the same title as the novel when it was seen in manuscript...

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