Virgil

Standard Name: Virgil

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Julia Kavanagh
In her preface JK explains her interest in the rise of the novel and argues that novels have become the teachers for good or for evil of many; their power can be exalted or deplored—it...
Textual Production Elizabeth Gilding
Her title-page quotes Thomson on the young mind fed by the light of truth, and Virgil on being made a poet. The book cost half a crown and was sold by the author herself at...
Textual Production Sarah Lewis
SL began her writing career with contributions to The Family Magazine. Her first publication was said to be a poem which appeared around 1838, when she was just fourteen years old.
Mainiero, Lina, editor. American Women Writers. Vol. II, Unger.
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Walsh, Thomas. “Stella and Her Brooklyn Salon”. The Bookman, Vol.
56
, No. 5, pp. 578-83.
580
Textual Production Mary Carleton
According to critic Mihoko Suzuki , The Case incorporates two portraits of its protagonist. The same plate was apparently used in two versions, one revised as to the hairstyle and ageing of the face. One...
Textual Production Constantia Grierson
Constantia Crawley (later CG ) published the first of her small, Elsevir-format editions of classical authors (written in Latin throughout): the works of Virgil , as P. Virgilii Maronis opera. Nunc emendatiora.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Elias, A. C. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, pp. 33-56.
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Textual Production Willa Cather
She chose an epigraph from Virgil 's Georgics,
Lee, Hermione. Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up. Virago.
90
and commissioned W. T. Benda for his spare and powerful illustrations, done with black brush-strokes on white.
Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, pp. 9-39.
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She disliked, however, the book jacket. She...
Textual Production Mary, Lady Chudleigh
Mary, Lady Chudleigh , wrote a poem in praise of Dryden 's translation of Virgil , which was about to be published. It seems that she would not allow her tribute to be printed with...
Textual Production Seamus Heaney
The poems in SH 's collection Seeing Things resound with echoes of Virgil .
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
4601 (7 June 1991): 28
“Seamus Heaney — Biographical”. Nobelprize.org.
Textual Production Judith Sargent Murray
The future JSM wrote a history (probably fiction) when she was nine, which years later she disparaged as an imbecile effusion.
Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books.
95
As she grew up she became prolific in letters and in occasional...
Textual Production Helen Waddell
Dame Felicitas Corrigan edited further translations of poetry (with some striking original pieces) by HW in More Latin Lyrics from Virgil to Milton.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Helen Waddell
While working on her W. P. Ker lecture in spring 1947, HW conceived the wish to work on Virgil : to do a really great translation of the Second Book of the Aeneid—Aeneas telling...
Textual Production Ursula K. Le Guin
UKLG published Lavinia, a novel about the Italian princess of that name mentioned in Virgil 's Aeneid, who marries the noble exiled Trojan Aeneas and so becomes the mother of Rome.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Brown, Jeremy K. Ursula K. Le Guin. Chelsea House.
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Textual Production Radagunda Roberts
The title-page quotes Virgil . The prologue expresses the hope that the product of her adventurous muse will prove equally acceptable to English and Scottish readers, who are all alike British.
Roberts, Radagunda. Malcolm. A Tragedy.
prelims
Textual Production Maria Barrell
This was Printed for the Author, with a quotation from Prior on the title-page.
Barrell, Maria. Reveries du Coeur. Dodsley, Walter, Owen, and Yeats.
prelims
The running head throughout the volume uses a different title: Poems on Various and Select Occasions. The volume...
Textual Production Ann Fisher
No copy of the first edition is known to be extant. The extremely long title continues An Accurate New Spelling Dictionary and Complete English Expositor: containing a much larger collection of words than any book...

Timeline

About 1136: The obscure figure known as Geoffrey of Monmouth,...

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About 1136

The obscure figure known as Geoffrey of Monmouth , who was probably Bishop of St Asaph (though many other roles have been assigned him), finished writing his History of the Kings of Britain, or...

By late 1697: John Dryden published by subscription his...

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By late 1697

John Dryden published by subscription his versetranslation of Virgil 's Works; it was the first time a literary work by a living author had been published by this means.

May 1842: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, the first American...

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May 1842

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft , the first American Indian poet known to have written in English
Noori, Margaret. “Bicultural before There Was a Word for It”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
25
, No. 2, pp. 7-9.
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as well as in her native Ojibwe or Ojibwa, died in her early forties at her sister's home in Canada.

1861: A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued...

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1861

A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued what seems to be the earliest version of a game called Authors, whose object was to collect sets of cards bearing the names of writers and the...

Texts

Virgil,. P. Virgilii Maronis opera. Editor Grierson, Constantia, George Grierson, 1724.