Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago.
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Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | |
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 |
Literary responses | Rose Macaulay | The prominent literary scholar Basil de Selincourt
, reviewing the book, wrote that it was in the Strachey
style, a little work of art, in its way, but inspired by the dangerous conscientiousness of disillusionment... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catharine Macaulay | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Mackenzie | The title-page quotes lines from Thomas Otway
about a massacre of children by soldiers; chapter one quotes Milton
on the torments of a bad conscience. The story is set in the tenth and eleventh centuries... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Mackenzie | A title-page quotation from John MiltonParadise Lost puts together, with an only an ellipsis between them, the persuasive powers of the fallen angel Belial (who could make the worse appear / The better reason) and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Mackenzie | The story opens during the sixteenth century, in the forests of Dalecarlia (in Swedish Dalarna), whose copper miners supported Gustav Vasa
(in English generally known as Gustavus) in his revolt against Christian II, King of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway |
Textual Features | Judith Cowper Madan | |
Textual Production | Anne Manning | AM
's first major historical novel appeared anonymously: The Maiden & Married Life of Mary Powell, Afterwards Mistress Milton. Framed as a journal kept by the poet John Milton
's first wife, it remains her best-known work. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Education | Anne Marsh | At probably four years old AM
read Anna Letitia Barbauld
's Lessons for Children (a composite title for her various books for the very young). With her reader Anne Caldwell, Barbauld achieved her aim of... |
Wealth and Poverty | Anne Marsh | Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father. Heath-Caldwell, J. J. “Letters, References and Notes (1780-1874), Relating to James Caldwell and Anne Marsh (Marsh-Caldwell)”. Ancestors and Relatives of JJ Heath-Caldwell. 1839-1842 |
Education | Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore | As a girl, Mary Eleanor Bowes received an excellent education and could speak several languages, reading French and Italian authors in the original. It was said that she did not learn Latin, but also that... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny | MLCC
provides a sketch of Collingwood's naval career, with accounts of some of his major battles. As by degrees the storms arise, / 'Till hurricanes obscure the skies, / So his tremendous fire increas'd, /... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | The novel which emerged from so much interference during composition is naive, exaggerated, and badly structured, but highly unusual, with great intensity in its writing. Its title-page quotes Thomas Holcroft
, and its epigraphs to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte McCarthy | The body of CMC
's work consists of her treatise in thirty-seven chapters. She imagines how God must have felt at various moments, beginning when he is about to create the world: I will make... |
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