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Occupation | Elizabeth Heyrick | Like her mother and the family friend Catherine Hutton, EH
was skilled at decorative arts. She fashioned a miniature medallion, depicting Sterne
's sentimental character Maria, out of Hutton's hair. Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers. 187 |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Harvey | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | The day was spent travelling from Glasgow to Inveraray. The writer throws in quotations and allusions (Edward Young
, the Bible, Macpherson
's Ossian and Homer
's Odyssey, Sterne
and Smollett |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Grant | Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson
(whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. 2: 45-8 |
Education | Elinor Glyn | After Elinor Sutherland (later EG
) turned fourteen she no longer had a governess. Eager for intellectual stimulation, she took it upon herself to read everything in her stepfather
's book collection, which had recently... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Phebe Gibbes | In addition to its over-riding themes of colonialism and the marriage market, this novel, set in early British Calcutta (and incorporating a good deal of travel book material), is much concerned with literature and with... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maggie Gee | Her ordinary working-class family here (quite the same as everyone else) 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. |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson | EGF
had met novelist Laurence Sterne
and botanist-physician John Fothergill
in London. Among her large circle of friends at home, other writers were prominent. She knew the poet Nathaniel Evans
and the physician and educator... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | The author complains in the dedication (signed Eliza Craven) of the impostor (her first husband's mistress) who has been travelling in Europe under her name and title, and enlists the Margrave's brotherly support for... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amelia B. Edwards | Barbara Churchill, a clever, shy, ugly, awkward child, Athenæum. J. Lection. 1888 (1864): 15 |
Education | Sara Jeannette Duncan | Writing by SJD
suggests that some of her early reading included Sterne
and Defoe
. She also had access to Blackwood's and the Cornhill Magazine, and romantic novels by Mary Cecil Hay
and Mary Jane Holmes
. Fowler, Marian. Redney: A Life of Sara Jeannette Duncan. Anansi. 24 |
Textual Features | Dorothea Du Bois | The last hundred pages of the book are somewhat anticlimactic, though DDB
retains a liveliness of Shandean
cast. Now methinks, I hear my youthful reader cry, but when shall we hear of this same love... |
Publishing | Dinah Mulock Craik | Travel pieces which DMC
had published in the new English Illustrated Magazine became An Unsentimental Journey through Cornwall, published later that year (titled with reference to Laurence Sterne
). Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. 97, 136 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | There follows a fighting critical Dissertation Respecting Patrons and Dedications, which covers the issues of male disrespect for female authors, the tyranny of critics, and over-insistence on moral instruction (with Hannah More
's Coelebs... |
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