McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Haswell Rowson | The title-page quotes Samuel Johnson
asserting that an author has nothing but his own merits to stand or fall on. The Birth of Genius, an irregular ode, offers advice to my son to love... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | The action of this novel takes place in many different parts of Italy. Its features include a mystery over the heroine's birth (her mother was an escaped nun and her father was burned by... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth B. Lester | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Clara Reeve | An epigraph to The Champion of Virtue quotes from Horace
's Ars Poetica about how a text should communicate sense as well as pleasure. In an Address to the ReaderCR
makes the familiar claim... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Iris Murdoch | Though she was a contented only child, IM
said that the impulse to create imaginary siblings was the thing that first inspired her to write. In her teens she was a leading contributor to the... |
Publishing | Frances Brooke | FB
dated the dedication of Emily Montague, to Guy Carleton
, Governor of Québec, on 22 March 1769. McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press. 105 |
Reception | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | |
Reception | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | |
Textual Features | Clara Reeve | |
Textual Features | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | The Verses are the most brilliant of all the many satirical attacks on Pope, and one of the most offensive. They zero in on his physical disability, and claim that it is the sign of... |
Textual Features | Anna Jane Vardill | AJV
translates from Sappho
, Anacreon
, Alcæus
, Theocritus
, Horace
, and more recent poets: Petrarch
and Camoens
. She includes several charity poems: the one already published in aid of the Refuge for the Destitute |
Textual Features | Marie-Catherine de Villedieu | |
Textual Features | Helen Waddell | This collection, wrote Waddell as translator, had no academic justification: it is arbitrary and unrepresentative of any author, or of any age. It reflected her despair during the months when the Second World War ceased... |
Textual Features | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | Original poems (sonnets, songs, ballads, occasional pieces) as well as more translations (from Latin, represented by Horace
, as well as from Italian) occupy the latter part of volume two. Many of the occasional poems... |
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