Poovey, Mary. Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. University of Chicago Press.
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Reception | Elizabeth Hervey | It has been until recently a given of literary history that William Beckford
had his half-sister in his sights in his two burlesques on women's novel-writing. The title-page of the first quotes Pope
, thus... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Paula R. Backscheider
has noted the extraordinary popularity of this three-volume publication as measured in numbers of editions or re-issues: seventy-nine by 1825, eighty-nine by 1840, and in every decade from the 1730s to the... |
Author summary | Celia Fiennes | CF
was a remarkable, indeed a unique, travel-writer about her own country. Travelling in the later seventeenth and the early eighteenth century, and writing the account that has come down to us in the latter... |
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... |
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... |
Literary responses | Harriet Corp | The Critical Review declined to comment on this book or to differentiate it from other religious novels. The Eclectic Review of November 1805, too, found similarities with other recent works, but dignified Interesting Conversations by... |
Literary responses | Caroline Leakey | Geraldine Jewsbury
's review in the Athenæum was extremely positive. She praised the book as written with great force and earnestness, saying that even the hardened novel readers and stony-hearted critics at the Athenæumhave... |
Leisure and Society | Mary Martha Sherwood | Her new religion, rigorous as it was, did not forbid fiction. Books were at a premium in India, and MMS
was delighted at encountering Defoe
's Robinson Crusoe and Richardson
. A new book, or... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Penelope Aubin | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Fanshawe | Memorials included just fifteen of her writings, both prose and verse. It added several poems to her known oeuvre. Epistle on the Subjects of Botany, containing a tale and much good advice welcomes the opening... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Florence Nightingale | In this report FN
explains how formerly nurses were women who were too old, too weak, too drunken, too dirty, too stolid, or too bad to do anything else. Poovey, Mary. Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. University of Chicago Press. 174, 242n25 |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Beatrix Potter | The Tale of Pigling Bland (written, significantly, in the days of BP
's own courtship) is a love-story in whose happy ending Pigling and his beloved Pig-wig go dancing off hand-in-hand Over the hills and... |
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
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Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Gardam | As the title suggests, Polly Flint's chief passion is for Daniel Defoe
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