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Education | Dora Greenwell | Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 199 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke. 73 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Hofland | The title-page quotes Francis Bacon
and Joseph Addison
. Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press. 68 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christian Isobel Johnstone | The title-page of the first quotes from Francis Bacon
(Knowledge is Power) and from the mother of Sir William Jones
(Read and you will know). Johnstone, Christian Isobel. Diversions of Hollycot. Oliver and Boyd. title-page |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Lawless | The title-page adapts a remark of Francis Bacon
about the exchange of thoughts with friends. EL
's own subtitle stresses that her emphasis here will be on ideas, or statements of personal philosophy, rather than... |
Dedications | Margaret Legge | The book is dedicated To My Friend, with a quotation about friendship from Francis Bacon
. Legge, Margaret. The Price of Stephen Bonyng. Alston Rivers. prelims |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth B. Lester | The title-page quotes from Sir Francis Bacon
, Virgil
, and Sir Roger L'Estrange
. A preface (written in the third person as he) argues that physiognomy has something in it but deplores the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Bathsua Makin | Makin proposes a curriculum which blends tradition with innovation. In arguing that it is more important to know things, than to get words and that languages (the staple of current male education) are subservient to... |
Textual Production | Delarivier Manley | The full title is Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality, of Both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean. DM
must surely have intended allusion to Francis Bacon |
Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | It was dated 1851. Her biographer R. K. Webb
claims that the bulk of the book is Atkinson
's, with promptings from Harriet Martineau
, although it certainly also includes substantial letters from her. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Mary, Countess Cowper | She says she never solicited for a place, though she wrote to the Princess on the death of Queen Anne. Mary, Countess Cowper,. Diary. Editor Cowper, Charles Spencer, John Murray. 2 |
Friends, Associates | E. Nesbit | EN
began to dabble, around 1908, in the Baconian question (whether the plays of Shakespeare
were actually written by Francis Bacon
). Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 278-9 |
Occupation | E. Nesbit | A few years later she believed, as if she had entered into one of her own fantasies for children, that she had found out the Shakespeare cipher, which comes out as definitely as the result... |
Literary Setting | E. Nesbit | Though the story centres on Yalding on the river Medway, the honeymooners travel to a whole list of EN
's favourite places before finally settling at Crow's Nest Farm, a portrait of her hideaway... |
Education | Frances Reynolds | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Roberts | The preface also formulates the idea—which was to permeate MR
's writing for the young, and which is enforced here by quotations from Samuel Rogers
(on the title-page) and Francis Bacon
(in the text)—of the... |
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