Astell, Mary. The First English Feminist. Editor Hill, Bridget, St Martin’s Press.
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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margery Allingham | These gripping stories do not feature Albert Campion. Each is set in a small rural community where a culture of voracious gossip threatens the reputation and happiness of somewhat unconventional young women. In each the... |
| Textual Production | Mary Astell | In the extended title MA
calls herself moderate, dutiful, and loyal, ironically insisting that she is not Mr. L—y, or any other Furious Jacobite whether Clergyman or Layman. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Penelope Aubin | |
| Author summary | Penelope Aubin | PA
began publishing early in the eighteenth century. She is chiefly known for her short novels, though she turned her hand to poetry and comedy as well. At the height of her career her rate... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Penelope Aubin | PA
's preface attacks the abominable Writings of the freethinker John Toland Welham, Debbie. “The Political Afterlife of Resentment in Penelope Aubin’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Life and Amorous Adventures of Lucinda</span> (1721)”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 20 , No. 1, pp. 49-63. 52 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Barker | This and JB
's next novel are both more episodic than Love Intrigues. In To the Reader she defends her own patchwork method (so different from the extended narrative method which she associates, though... |
| Education | Mary Anne Barker | Mary Anne's education consisted largely of the cosmopolitan polishing of the colonial ruling class; she felt later that she had had to manage her own learning without being taught. Her favourite book was Defoe
's... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Christine Brooke-Rose | This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen
of a great German contemporary of Austen:... |
| Education | Frances Browne | FB
's blindness meant that she did not have a formal education, and she very early felt the want of it. Browne, Frances. The Star of Attéghéi; the Vision of Schwartz; and Other Poems. Edward Moxon. ix |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Harriet Burney | The Shipwreck presents (with memories of William ShakespeareThe Tempest as well as Daniel DefoeRobinson Crusoe) Sabor, Peter. “Part of an Englishwoman’s Constitution: Sarah Harriet Burney and Shakespeare”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | A. S. Byatt | One reviewer noted ASB
's fascination with the symbolic world of the fairy tale, the dream and the artist's vision shape both the style and the content. Rankin, Bill. “Byatt’s Stories Live Up to her High Standards”. Edmonton Journal, p. F7. F7 |
| Occupation | Mary Carleton | The hostile story which has her establishing herself as a confidence trickster, using her sexual charms to prey on men in the manner of fictional characters like her avowed disciple Defoe
's Roxana, is borne... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Carleton | The bigamy scandal generated twenty-six topical publications. It provoked such works as a play by either Thomas Parker
or John Holden
, 1664. Later MC
's death by hanging made her an ideal subject for... |
| Textual Production | Willa Cather | The following year she contributed an introduction to an edition of Roxana by Daniel Defoe
(issued under its subtitle of The Fortunate Mistress). Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, pp. 9-39. 36 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Chandler | Her poem played its part in the establishment of Bath as a resort which was respected and fashionable, on both medical and cultural grounds. When James Leake
published a revised edition of A Tour of... |
Timeline
Spring to autumn 1665: The Great Plague (probably bubonic plague...
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Spring to autumn 1665
The Great Plague (probably bubonic plague or pasteurella pestis) raged in London. Londoners' experience is well-known from the accounts of Samuel Pepys
and Daniel Defoe
; in some other parts of Britain 1666 was plague year.
13 April 1685: Two Scotswomen, Margaret Lachlane aged sixty-three...
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13 April 1685
Two Scotswomen, Margaret Lachlane
aged sixty-three and Margaret Wilson
aged around twenty-five, were sentenced to execution by drowning for being Covenanters
: they were tied to stakes in Wigtown Bay while the tide came in.
January 1697: Daniel Defoe proposed in his early publication...
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January 1697
Daniel Defoe
proposed in his early publication An Essay upon Projects (advertised for sale this month) the founding of an academy for women.
1698: On the death of publisher Richard Baldwin...
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1698
On the death of publisher Richard Baldwin
from a slow consumption, his widow, Abigail
, took over the business in name; she had in fact been running it for several years.
1 December 1702: Daniel Defoe's The Shortest Way with the...
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1 December 1702
Daniel Defoe
's The Shortest Way with the Dissenters was anonymously published.
3 November 1703: Mary Raby was executed at Tyburn for crimes...
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3 November 1703
Mary Raby was executed at Tyburn for crimes against property.
19 February 1704: Daniel Defoe issued the first number of his...
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19 February 1704
Daniel Defoe
issued the first number of his long-running, one-man periodical, A Review of the State of the British Nation,, which began under the title A Weekly Review of the Affairs of France.
March 1705: Daniel Defoe published The Consolidator:...
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March 1705
Daniel Defoe
published The Consolidator: an ingenious allegorickRelation or satiricalscience fiction about a trip to the moon on a flying machine whose 513 feathers coincide with the number of MPs in Parliament
.
8 September 1705: On this day, according to Defoe's True Relation...
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8 September 1705
On this day, according to Defoe
's True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal (published next year), the phantom of a young woman who had just died paid a call on a friend.
2 February 1709: Sailor Alexander Selkirk was rescued after...
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2 February 1709
Sailor Alexander Selkirk
was rescued after surviving more than four years as a castway on Juan Fernandez island.
11 June 1713: Daniel Defoe issued the last number of his...
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11 June 1713
Daniel Defoe
issued the last number of his periodical, A Review.
31 March 1715: Daniel Defoe published The Family Instructor,...
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31 March 1715
Daniel Defoe
published The Family Instructor, which explores in fictionaldialogue form religious and educational issues arising in families.
18 September 1718: The thrice-weekly White-hall Evening-Post...
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18 September 1718
The thrice-weeklyWhite-hall [sic] Evening-Post began publishing, editing by Daniel Defoe
; it ran until 10 April 1739, after which its title was used, with variations, for other papers.
25 April 1719: Daniel Defoe anonymously published The Life...
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25 April 1719
Daniel Defoe
anonymously published The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: a novel with elements of spiritual autobiography.
28 November 1720: At a trial in Spanish Town, Jamaica, Anne...
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28 November 1720
At a trial in Spanish Town, Jamaica, Anne Bonny
and Mary Read
were found guilty of piracy and sentenced to hang. However, after each claimed that she was pregnant, both were spared the death penalty.
Texts
Defoe, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Year. Editor Landa, Louis, Oxford University Press, 1969.
Defoe, Daniel. Essay Upon Projects. Printed by R. R. for Tho. Cockerill, 1697.
Defoe, Daniel. “Introduction”. Selected Poetry and Prose of Daniel Defoe, edited by Michael F. Shugrue, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968, p. v - xxvi.
Defoe, Daniel. “Introduction”. Robinson Crusoe, edited by John J. Richetti, Penguin, 2001, p. ix - xxxiv.
Defoe, Daniel. Selected Poetry and Prose of Daniel Defoe. Editor Shugrue, Michael F., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
Defoe, Daniel. The Earlier Life and Chief Earlier Works of Daniel Defoe. Editor Morley, Henry, George Routledge, 1889.