Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | A. Woodfin | Mrs Dubois makes a second marriage to a widower, Mr Ravenshaw. Something in their Minds attracted them to each other. They thought it was Friendship, and called it so; but their Friends termed it Love... |
Textual Features | Mary Wollstonecraft | The influence of Sterne
is discernible in the way MW
's immediate feeling and later meditations are awakened by personal encounters along the way with people like the oppressed and near-destitute Norwegian wet-nurse, or the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Helena Wells | The heroine's father is a Hamburg merchant (which perhaps explains the book's Hamburg subscribers). She is born in Barbados (where her mother, on arrival, would have been perfectly happy, but for the black servants)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Mary Walker | Foscolo read Petrarch
and Sterne
together with Hamilton's daughter Sophia. Then he seduced her, and went back to Italy leaving her pregnant. The baby was called Mary after her grandmother, and stayed with Lady Mary... |
Education | Melesina Trench | Her successive years with different guardians account for the apparent inconsistency in her comments about her education. In maturity she named her favourite youthful reading as Shakespeare
, Molière
, and Sterne
. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Thomas | The quotations that head her chapters range through more than a dozen well-known male names from Shakespeare
through Racine
in French, Prior
and Pope
to Sterne
and Burke
, plus a couple of unidentified women.... |
Textual Features | Tabitha Tenney | Choice of women writers is fairly generous, with excerpts from Hester Mulso Chapone
, John Aikin
and Anna Letitia Barbauld
(Evenings at Home), Susanna Haswell Rowson
, Elizabeth Carter
, Hester Thrale
,... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Taylor | Tomkins (whose words open the novel in very much the way that Sterne
's narrator opens A Sentimental Journey) is in search of a wife, but early rules out the heroine from consideration. She... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Strutt | The paintings he exhibited at the Royal Academy
were mostly landscapes; it may not be fanciful to see the influence of his marriage in the two titles he showed (for the first time) in 1819:... |
Textual Features | Christina Stead | Here CS
turns a satiric eye on expatriates in Switzerland in the harsh years that followed the second world war. Her characters have mostly come through the war with money which they wish to protect... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mariana Starke | Here MS
found the mixture that would characterise all her travel writing: vivid first-hand narrative and evocation, and reliable well-set-out information about practical matters like mileages and information about the state of roads and inns... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Smith | A preface (in the first volume) quotes the words of Samuel Johnson
(with apology for applying them to so trifling a matter as novel-writing) about working at his dictionary amid grief and illness, feeling cut... |
Textual Features | Stevie Smith | This highly unusual novel takes the form of a disconnected journal by a publisher's secretary named Pompey, an alienated but irrepressible member of the disregarded female work-force, who is clearly an alter-ego for SS
... |
Literary responses | Sarah Scott | Later this year the black Londoner Ignatius Sancho
singled out Laurence Sterne
and the humane author of Sir George Ellison as the only writers to have drawn a tear in favour of my miserable black... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Haswell Rowson | Here SHR
makes a preface out of her unwillingness to write a preface: this concept is Sterne
an, and so is the abrupt opening. I can't for my life see the necessity of it, said... |
Timeline
1532-early 1552: These years saw the gradual appearance of...
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1532-early 1552
These years saw the gradual appearance of the work of scurrilous, obscene, and philosophicalsatire generally known in English as Gargantua and Pantagruel, by François Rabelais
(1483?-?9 April 1553).
1739: Sir Richard Manningham, fashionable man-midwife...
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1739
Sir Richard Manningham
, fashionable man-midwife or obstetrician, opened England's first lying-in infirmary or medical centre reserved for childbirth, in a house next-door to his own in Jermyn Street, London.
Last week of December 1759: Laurence Sterne published the first two volumes...
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Last week of December 1759
Laurence Sterne
published the first two volumes of his first novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy.
22 May 1760: Laurence Sterne published Sermons of Mr....
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22 May 1760
Laurence Sterne
published Sermons of Mr. Yorick.
30 January 1767: Laurence Sterne published the ninth and final...
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30 January 1767
Laurence Sterne
published the ninth and final volume of his novelTristram Shandy, which had begun in December 1759.
27 February 1768: A month before he died, Laurence Sterne published...
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27 February 1768
A month before he died, Laurence Sterne
published the work which is generally classed as his second novel (also an episodic travel book), A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy.
By September 1782: The Letters of the black Londoner Ignatius...
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By September 1782
The Letters of the black Londoner Ignatius Sancho
were published two years after the author's death.
August 1813: The Critical Review published its first welcome...
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August 1813
The Critical Review published its first welcome to Eaton Stannard Barrett
's famous parody of sentimental novels, The Heroine, or Adventures of the Fair Romance Reader.
February 2007: Social anthropologist Mary Douglas published...
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February 2007
Social anthropologist Mary Douglas
published a brief study of literary composition entitled Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition.
Texts
Sterne, Laurence. Tristram Shandy. Ann Ward; R. and J. Dodsley; T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt.
Sterne, Laurence. Tristram Shandy. Editor Work, James Aiken, Oxford University Press, 1986.