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Voltaire
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Standard Name: Voltaire
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Travel | Elizabeth Montagu | She waxed satirical to Elizabeth Vesey about the two poems entered for the Academy's prize, and especially about the reading of Voltaire
's paper against Shakespeare
(whose plays, recently translated into French, he thought capable... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Augusta Ward | The contemporary story features a self-educated working-class intellectual and freethinker whose characterisation draws on many strands of thought of the day. Drawn after the model of self-made men such as Daniel Macmillan
, William Lovett |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Nancy Mitford | Her book covers the years 1733-1749, that is, the period of Voltaire
's involvement with Emilie du Châtelet
, up to the latter's death following childbirth. It uses then-unpublished letters. It has been variously assessed... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hester Mulso Chapone | The first letter is entitled On the Principles of Religion; HMC
assures her niece that she is one of your warmest friends. |
Textual Production | Mary Julia Young | MJY
reported to the Royal Literary Fund
that she had selected and translated a collection of extracts from works by Voltaire
: Voltairiana, 1805, in four volumes. Batchelor, Jennie. Women’s Work: Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1750-1830. Manchester University Press. 161-2 Lloyd, Nicola. “Mary Julia Young. A Biographical and Bibliographical Study”. Romantic Textualities, No. 18. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Montagu | In a counterblast to Voltaire
, EM
published, anonymously, An Essay on Shakespear. Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable. 1: 217-18 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Griffith | EG
and her husband
both contributed translations to Voltaire
's works in English, issued by William Kenrick
in these years. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 49 (1779): 198 Griffith, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xviii. xxxii |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Montagu | Her full title is An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear, compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets, With some Remarks Upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. de Voltaire. Montagu, Elizabeth. Essay on Shakespear. J. Dodsley. title-page |
Textual Production | Dorothea Celesia | The month after this success DC
was planning to adapt another tragedy by Voltaire
(Sémiramis, 1746) and asked Garrick if it had ever been translated into English. But it seems that she never... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Lennox | An anonymous translation from Voltaire
, The Age of Lewis XIV, published by Dodsley
, has been thought to be by CL
; her biographer Susan Carlile
denies this. Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 18 , No. 4, pp. 317-44. 326 Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press. 156n69 |
Textual Production | Anna Maria Mackenzie | The first volume has a frontispiece (two women meeting a man in armour) and the title-page quotes some lines about the insecurity of a throne won through ambition. These are ascribed to Fielding
's Merope... |
Textual Production | Laura Riding | Voltaire
: A Biographical Fantasy, a long poem by Laura Gottschalk (later LR
), was published by the Hogarth Press
. Wexler, Joyce Piell. Laura Riding: A Bibliography. Garland. 7-9 |
Textual Production | Sarah Austin | SA
's next known literary translation was Voltaire
's History of Charles XII, of which her version appeared in 1827. Of this she said I got neither money nor renown for it .... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Meeke | The title-page specifies several of Du Deffand's correspondents, including Montesquieu
and Germaine de Staël
. Voltaire
's letters to Du Deffand receive special billing. Meeke presumably also provided the translations of The French Booksellers' Address... |
Textual Production | Nancy Mitford | NM
published Voltaire
in Love, another of her biographical studies. British Book News. British Council. (1957): 762 |
Timeline
1532-early 1552: These years saw the gradual appearance of...
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1532-early 1552
These years saw the gradual appearance of the work of scurrilous, obscene, and philosophicalsatire generally known in English as Gargantua and Pantagruel, by François Rabelais
(1483?-?9 April 1553).
By 26 March 1741: Emilie du Chatelet composed, within a month,...
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By 26 March 1741
Emilie du Chatelet
composed, within a month, a refutation to sexist attack by Jean-Baptiste Dortous de Mairin
, Secretary of the Académie Française
, on her Treatise on the Nature of Fire.
1 November 1755: A major earthquake at Lisbon in Portugal...
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1 November 1755
A major earthquake at Lisbon in Portugal killed more than 10,000 people (estimates vary), provoking theological debate between Rousseau
and Voltaire
about the nature of evil.
14 March 1757: Admiral John Byng was executed (by firing-squad...
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14 March 1757
Admiral John Byng
was executed (by firing-squad on the deck of his own flagship) for his part in the loss of the Mediterranean island of Minorca to the French the previous year: a step towards...
Early 1759: Voltaire published his most famous single...
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Early 1759
Voltaire
published his most famous single work, the philosophicaltaleCandide; ou, L'Optimisme, simultaneously in several different countries; three English translations appeared that same year.
Wade, Ira O. “The First Edition of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Candide</span>: A Problem of Identification”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol.
20
, pp. 63-88. Wade
1767: An Essay on Crimes and Punishments appeared,...
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1767
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments appeared, the English translation of the marchese Cesare Beccaria
's Dei delitti e delle pene, 1764, with a commentary attributed to Voltaire
.
28 December 1817: The painter Benjamin Haydon held what later...
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28 December 1817
The painter Benjamin Haydon
held what later became known as the immortal dinner so that the young John Keats
might meet the eminent William Wordsworth
.
15 June 1916: A small international group of artists at...
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15 June 1916
A small international group of artists at Zurich in Switzerland (where many of them were sitting out the First World War) began this summer to call their indignant, iconoclastic work Dada or Dadaism. On this...
16 April 2007: Novelist Yann Martel began a project of sending...
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16 April 2007
Novelist Yann Martel
began a project of sending a book every two weeks to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper
together with an admonitory letter; on a website he recorded the books sent and gave the...
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