Griffiths, Ralph, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
3 (May 1750): 59-61
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Anne-Thérèse de Lambert | The circle which ATL
gathered as a hostess included, besides Montesquieu
(who submitted all his manuscripts to her for comment), Dacier
and La Motte
, other eminent persons such as writers Marivaux
, Fontenelle
,... |
Literary responses | Sarah Scott | The Monthly Review thought that this novel, though stiff and formal, was promising; that it was influenced by Marivaux
' Marianne;and that it was written by a man. Griffiths, Ralph, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths. 3 (May 1750): 59-61 |
Publishing | Mary Collyer | A probably pirated Life and Adventures of Indiana, the Virtuous Orphan, appeared, a version of Marivaux
's La vie de Marianne designed to rival MC
's Virtuous Orphan; or, The Life of Marianne... |
Textual Features | Frances Burney | Evelina opens with an ode to Charles Burney
(unnamed) as Author of my Being, which sounds like an apology for having written. Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988. 37 |
Textual Production | Mary Collyer | MC
's The Virtuous Orphan; or, The Life of Marianne (a translation and free adaptation from Marivaux
) was published. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 12 (1742): 224 Feminist Companion Archive. |
Textual Production | Mary Collyer | The History of Miss Indiana Danby in several volumes, by a Lady, was somewhat improbably suspected of being another translation by MC
from Marivaux
; if it was hers it must have been posthumous... |
Textual Production | Mary Collyer | The ascription probably follows from the Marivaux
translation of 1746, The Life and Adventures of Indiana, the Virtuous Orphan (above). The text of Indiana Danby's first two volumes (which are complete without the later... |
Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
wrote a free translation of Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard, a comedy by Marivaux
; she titled it Simplicity. Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999. 321 |
Textual Production | Timberlake Wertenbaker |
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