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Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth B. Lester | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mercy Otis Warren | Though the play is set in Servia (a place chosen not for its history or geography but its sound), the names are Roman, matching the title-page quotation from Addison
's Cato. All the characters... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Lady Mary claimed that at every stage of her life she picked a few intimate friends and cared little for the opinions of anyone else. She always retained the highest opinion of her father's and... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Brereton | In her youth JB
knew |
Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Cowper Madan | A son, John, born early in 1728 lived only a month. Then came Spencer, born just over a year later, who rose in the Church to become a bishop, and lived until 1813; Penelope, born... |
Education | Anne Grant | Of her childhood, AG
wrote that she developed early powers of imagination and memory, but received little attention: no one fondled or caressed me . . . I did not till the sixth year of... |
Education | Sarah Josepha Hale | |
Education | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Because of her mother's early death, MBE
, she said later, was largely self-educated, her teachers being plenty of the best books. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 124 |
Education | Ann Fisher | It is not known where or how AF
acquired an education, but she certainly did so, to a far higher level than was normal for people of her class, regardless of their gender. She had... |
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