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Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Selina Davenport | The title-page quotes Milton
on the false dissembler (Satan). The story opens with Edmund Dudley, the lover and the poet, confiding to a married friend, Leopold Courtenay, his love for Althea, to whom he has... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria De Fleury | Her poem is Miltonic
in style, with frequent echoes of Paradise Lost, although written in couplets. Accepting a designation applied to her by ideological enemies, MDF
opens by comparing herself to the biblical Deborah... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria De Fleury | |
Textual Production | Mary Delany | |
Textual Production | Mary Delany | |
Literary responses | Ethel M. Dell | In response to a compliment on her writing EMD
replied, they are not well written and will never be called classics. Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton. 129 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Deverell | |
Education | Florence Dixie | Lady Florence was at first educated at home in Scotland. After a first, unsuccessful attempt to place her in a convent she had, in France, an Irish Catholic governess whom she calls Miss O'Leary... |
Literary responses | Florence Dixie | This book was widely reviewed in provincial and even American as well as London papers. The Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard called it a real, living, human production, and one which must ever be... |
Occupation | Gustave Doré | |
politics | John Dryden | This was work in keeping with his family's political position. Attending Westminster School only a stone's throw from a whole succession of exciting and disturbing national events must surely have awakened Dryden's historical and political... |
Literary Setting | Dorothea Du Bois | In the second volume the grown-up Theodora is living in London, a great reader, and acquainted with the royal family: she is impolite to the Princess Royal when the latter interrupts her reading of Milton |
Education | Toru Dutt | TD
and Aru
were briefly enrolled at a boarding school in Nice where they studied French. Rao, Raja, and Toru Dutt. “Aru and Toru”. Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan, Writers Workshop. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | George Eliot | This followed not long after a review of a book on Milton
, which she used as an opportunity to discuss the law on marriage and divorce. In treating Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater | The wedding was sumptuous and the bride's marriage portion was £6,000. Travitsky, Betty, and Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater. “Subordination and Authorship: Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton”. Subordination and Authorship: the case of Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton and her &quot:loose papers", Tempe, Ariz., pp. 1-172. 92 Starr, Nathan Comfort. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Concealed Fansyes</span>: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley”. PMLA, Vol. 46 , No. 3, pp. 805-36. 804 Travitsky, Betty, and Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater. “Subordination and Authorship: Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton”. Subordination and Authorship: the case of Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton and her &quot:loose papers", Tempe, Ariz., pp. 1-172. 72 |
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