John Milton

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Standard Name: Milton, John

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Textual Production Christian Gray
A second volume of CG 's poetry appeared, this time at Perth and entitled A New Selection of Miscellaneous Pieces, in Verse: again her title-page quotes from the third book of Paradise Lost...
Textual Production Phillis Wheatley
The claim of the preface that PW wrote for her own amusement, without thought of publication, and was now yielding to the persuasions of generous friends, may be taken with a grain of salt. She...
Textual Production Rose Macaulay
Writing about a wide range of authors from Caedmon to Coventry Patmore , she devotes a significant portion of the book to the seventeenth century, which held a great interest for her. The chapter Anglicans
Textual Production Susanna Moodie
The title, from the close of Milton 's Paradise Lost, refers to the world as Adam and Eve see it when, driven from Paradise, they must choose their own new home.
Textual Production Helen Maria Williams
This volume also included work by Milton , Dryden , Addison , Pope , Carter , and Barbauld .
Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications.
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Textual Production Harriet Corp
The title in full is An Antidote to the Miseries of Human Life, In the History of the Widow Placid, and Her Daughter Rachel. HC 's title does not mean that she sought to...
Textual Production Lady Eleanor Butler
Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton , and Harriet Pigott therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby .
Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, p. vii - viii; various pages.
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They have been published in several selections: by Mrs G. H. [Eva Mary] Bell
Textual Production Kathleen Raine
KR published the first book of her three-volume autobiography, Farewell Happy Fields: Memories of Childhood.
The first three words of the title are spoken by Milton 's Satan after he is cast out of...
Textual Production Antonia Fraser
In AF 's thriller Cool Repentance her detective, Jemima Shore, owed her solution of the mystery to her ability to recognise a line from Milton 's Comus.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Textual Production Evelyn Underhill
In a letter she wrote in December 1892, on the eve of her seventeenth birthday, she assesses the religious and other opinions she held during a period of her life that was about to close...
Textual Production Elizabeth Smith
One month before writing this poem Elizabeth Smith met Mary Hunt , with whom she was soon maintaining a scholarly correspondence. In the earliest letter which Bowdler prints (written on 7 July 1792), Smith touches...
Textual Production Kathleen Caffyn
KC 's novel-writing career extended for a further seventeen indefatigable years after this. Novels she issued before her final one in 1916 are of considerable interest, though they received less and less praise. The Minx...
Textual Production Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
The title-page bore her name and a quotation from Milton . This book advertised her novel from nearly thirty years ago.
Wolferstan, Elizabeth Pipe. “Preface”. Agatha, edited by John Goss.
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Textual Production Margaret Gatty
Juliana Ewing called MG 's collection of three stories, The Human Face Divine and Other Tales (titled from Paradise Lost), 1859, a very characteristic volume.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia. “Margaret Gatty, 1885”. A Celebration of Women Writers, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom.
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The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1677 (1859): 812
To most readers today the...
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.

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By 27 January 1732: The great classical scholar Richard Bentley...

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By 27 January 1732

The great classical scholar Richard Bentley published his notorious edition of Milton 's Paradise Lost.

After 1 February 1785: M. Peddle (a gifted, little-known, Evangelical...

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After 1 February 1785

M. Peddle (a gifted, little-known, Evangelical woman of Yeovil in Somerset, who later issued a conduct book under the name of Cornelia) published a biblical paraphrase in novelistic style: The Life of Jacob.

9 June 1792: Gillray published a remarkable political...

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9 June 1792

Gillray published a remarkable political cartoon, Sin, Death, and the Devil: personified versions of Queen Charlotte , William Pitt , and Lord Thurlow .

March 1824-May 1829: Walter Savage Landor published Imaginary...

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March 1824-May 1829

Walter Savage Landor published Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen.

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.
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, 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.

1888: Mellin's Baby Foods offered a genuine silver...

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1888

Mellin's Baby Foods offered a genuine silver brooch to all applicants, stressing that this free gift was an absolute fact.

By late April 1943: C. S. Lewis published Perelandra, the second...

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By late April 1943

C. S. Lewis published Perelandra, the second of his science fiction trilogy, in which the hero, Elwin Ransom, travels to the planet Venus and tries to intervene in that planet's history.

25 September 1968: The prospective new town of Milton Keynes...

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25 September 1968

The prospective new town of Milton Keynes in North Buckinghamshire was advertised in the Times with a view to attracting interest, residents, and particularly industry and businesses.

May 1969: The Open University based at the barely-begun...

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May 1969

The Open University based at the barely-begun new town of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire (fruit of Jennie Lee 's University of the Air Advisory Committee) received its royal charter.

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