Gore, Catherine. The Hamiltons; or, Official Life in 1830. R. Bentley.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | The title-page quotes the passage in Swift
's Gulliver's Travels where the King of Brobdingnag hears from Gulliver about English politics and marvels that human grandeur can be mimicked by such contemptible insects. Gore, Catherine. The Hamiltons; or, Official Life in 1830. R. Bentley. title-page |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | Any relation to Jonathan Swift
's A Tale of a Tub is indirect and inexplicit. The tub in this case is the working tool of Jeannette, stocking-mender, launderer, and cousin of du Barry
(who herself... |
Literary responses | Anne Finch | Richard Steele
in the Tatler (number 10) praised Tonson's miscellany for collecting the best pastorals of the day. McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press. 93 |
Literary responses | Sarah Fielding | The book's admirers included (perhaps embarrassingly) the courtesan Teresia Constantia Phillips
, who praised it in her Memoirs. Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford. 72 |
Publishing | Fidelia | Two months after her first Gentleman's Magazine verse, Fidelia
proposed a more unusual prize for the poety contest: not money at all, but the hand of Swift
in marriage. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 4 (1734): 619 |
Publishing | Fidelia | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Fidelia | Fidelia's response is flippant, racy, and Swift
ian in style. Her first joke is to adopt a professional or hard-headed tone, entirely at odds with the invitation to write solemn devotional verse. She complains that... |
Textual Features | Fidelia | She explains that having waited four months for Swift
to answer her marriage proposal—still in love with him, having rejected other suitors for his sake, admiring his power of raillery, forgiving his harshness to women... |
Textual Features | Fidelia | Fidelia defends herself against the suspicion of being a male in disguise: I feign my name, but not my sex. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 5 (1735): 256 |
Textual Production | Alison Fell | AF
's novel The Mistress of Lilliput; or, The Pursuit is both a kind of prequel and sequel to Swift
's Gulliver's Travels. “Alison Fell”. Fantastic Fiction. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Features | Violet Fane | The unnamed male narrator describes himself as a foreigner, but has lived in London long enough to be mistaken for an Englishman. Fane, Violet. The Edwin and Angelina Papers. World Office. 4 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ruth Fainlight | These are serious poems which engage unblinkingly with the perplexities of the human condition. The intricate, highly visual title-poem juxtaposes two views of human lives: one of people as distant and tiny, one as close... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Elstob | Begun in order to help the work of a female student, this work reiterates more strongly EE
's plea for opening the arena of scholarship to women. For examples of poetic practice she turns to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Elstob | Elstob probably succeeded in modifying Swift
's views: he later adopted some of hers. Elstob, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. An Apology for the Study of Northern Antiquities, edited by Charles Peake, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, p. i - v. iv-v Hughes, Shaun F. D. “The Anglo-Saxon Grammars of George Hickes and Elizabeth Elstob”. Anglo-Saxon Scholarship, the First Three Centuries, edited by Carl T. Berkhout and Milton McC. Gatch, G. K. Hall, pp. 119-47. 119-20 and n2 |
Textual Features | Maria Edgeworth | This essay includes elements of fiction and reportage. It both exemplifies and defends the colourful and linguistically distinct qualities of Irish lower-class speech, pointing out that for these speakers English is their second language. (This... |
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