Voltaire

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.

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

In her copy of this text (an edition published in 1721 in twelve volumes),Lady Mary Wortley Montagu wrote: plus delicat que Crebillon [evidently the younger of this name, famous for erotic fiction], plus amusant...

On her first visit to Paris, she met Germaine de Staël , and formed lasting friendships with the marquise de Villette (Voltaire 's adopted daughter) and with Elizabeth Patterson (an American heiress, the abandoned...

The action of this novel takes place in many different parts of Italy. Its features include a mystery over the heroine's birth (her mother was an escaped nun and her father was burned by...

She had written it after fleeing to Blois in France with her family after a theatre riot greeted a performance of Voltaire 's Mahomet, and had intended it to be the first of a...

Her subjects included German and French, philosophy and literature, particularly such writers as Kant , Heine , Pascal , Racine , and Voltaire . Among English authors, she admired George Meredith (Modern Love))...

The Critical Review was unimpressed by this novel: a strange medley of romance, history, and novel, in which the scenery is changed with the pantomimical rapidity of Voltaire 's Candide. . . . aukwardly...

The second part opens with quotations from Cicero and Voltaire . It includes a picture of connubial love gone sour, turned to mutual wrongs, and mutual hate. Its examples of heroic friendship include...

It was suggested to Vivian Ridler that he was indicating insufficient commitment; personal relations within the Press appear to have had something to do with it. He found another job setting up a private press...

Voltaire : A Biographical Fantasy, a long poem by Laura Gottschalk (later LR ), was published by the Hogarth Press .

These letters are fine examples of the genre, whether as expressions of friendship, accounts of her personal family life, or commentary on public events. She voices, for instance, an impassioned denunciation of plantation slavery, in...

Odle illustrated editions of Voltaire 's Candide, Swift 's Gulliver's Travels, Wilde 's The Sphinx, and Twain 's 1601, among others; his images also appeared in such periodicals as The Gypsy...

While she was working on this novel, her husband Alan Odle was preparing for a show of his drawings and book illustrations. Both of these projects necessitated their spending the winter in London, and...

Though nothing is know of CEP 's early education, in later life she kept an extensive library. On visiting her, Frederick James Gould noted that it was selected and arranged in an impressive order which...