Voltaire

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Standard Name: Voltaire

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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 Features Enid Bagnold
Critics Arthur Calder Mashall and Lenemaja Friedman have both noted the probable influence of Voltaire on this novel.
Calder-Marshall, Arthur, and Enid Bagnold. “Foreword”. The Girl’s Journey, Heinemann, p. vii - xi.
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Friedman, Lenemaja. Enid Bagnold. Twayne.
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Its main characters are an eccentric Brazilian, Countess Flor di Folio (modelled on Baroness Catherine d'Erlanger
Textual Features Amelia Beauclerc
This novel is heavy-handedly moralistic. The heroine, Miriam Harcott, is the child of an atheistical philosopher (converted in the end by a good—not Methodist—clergyman) and a careless mother who causes the deaths of three of...
Publishing Samuel Beckett
During the same year Eugene Jolas published in the June number of transition Beckett's short story entitled Assumption, and on 14 November the Trinity College, Dublin , student newspaper, A College Miscellany, published...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Robert Lee Wolff argues that this is one of MEB 's very best Wilkie Collins -style investigations.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland.
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As in much of MEB 's other fiction in this style, the reader can easily and...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw
This second novel, prefaced by a long quotation from Voltaire , opens in the reign of Peter the Great and takes place in Russia. The hero is Ferdinand Beleski, who at the end marries...
Literary responses Frances Brooke
Highly positive reviews included one from Voltaire in France suggesting that this was the finest epistolary novel to appear in English during the decade or so since the last work of Richardson .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The Critical...
Textual Features Brigid Brophy
The title-piece is the last and longest in the volume. It belongs to the once-popular genre of dialogues of the dead. Its characters are Voltaire (who had been used this way several times before), Gibbon
Education Jane Welsh Carlyle
But by the end of his first visit, Jane Welsh agreed to allow Carlyle to supervise her reading, and on his departure he provided her with a list of books by authors including Tasso ,...
Publishing Dorothea Celesia
DC wrote from Genoa to David Garrick in England, submitting a manuscript of a blank-verse tragedy which she had based on Voltaire 's Tancrède, 1760. Though she had entertained Garrick at her house, she...
Performance of text Dorothea Celesia
DC 's Almide, an adaptation of Tancrede by Voltaire , opened at Drury Lane in London. It proved a success, and ran for ten nights.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
Reception Dorothea Celesia
A prologue by William Whitehead mentioned DC 's right to inherit her father's theatrical talent, in spite of her sex: No Salick law here bars the female's claim. It concluded with the statement that critics...
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...
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.
Feminist Companion Archive.
She cautions about choice of friends and even more about choice of...
Literary responses Charlotte Charke
The Gentleman's Magazine devoted more space to CC 's book this year than to any other new work, though these included Johnson 's Dictionary and Voltaire 's History and State of Europe.
Baruth, Philip E. “Who Is Charlotte Charke?”. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma, edited by Philip E. Baruth, University of Illinois Press, pp. 9-62.
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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.
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, 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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