Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Porter | The new Juvenilia Press
edition, like the original first volume, contains five stories: Sir Alfred; or, The Baleful Tower, The Daughters of Glandour, The Noble Courtezan, The Children of Fauconbridge, and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Hester Pulter | Hester's father, James Ley
, was a lawyer (in time a judge) who sat for many years as Member of Parliament for Westbury (under Queen Elizabeth, James I and Charles I). At the time of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Hester Pulter | LHP
's elder sister Margaret (later, by marriage, Margaret Hobson
) had the distinction of being the recipient or dedicatee of Milton
's sonnet in praise of her father. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Radcliffe | Influences on AR
's writings include the opera, contemporary travel writers, and Joseph Priestley
's Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism, 1777. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 67 |
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... |
Education | Kathleen Raine | KR
wrote that she grew up reading the Bible daily and memorising passages from it. Her mother could recite long passages from Milton
and other English poets, besides Scottish poems and ballads. She was glad... |
Textual Features | Kathleen Raine | |
Textual Production | Kathleen Raine | Her title seems to combine memory of Milton
's human face divine (in the lines on his own blindness in Paradise Lost) with that of Blake's human form divine. Consideration of the twenty-two engravings... |
Education | Frances Reynolds | |
Education | Jean Rhys | At a very young age, JR
imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words... |
Education | Maria Riddell | The future MR
was in all probability privately educated. At sixteen she wrote a poem to commemorate the pleasure of reading with a friend the works of Milton
, Pope
, Spenser
, Shakespeare
... |
Education | Anne Ridler | She lived in a King's College hostel in Queensborough Terrace near Hyde Park,London. The course included lectures on history and literature. The distinguished scholar Jack Isaacs
lectured on Shakespeare
, Donne
, and Milton |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Robinson | MR
's preface quotes that of Charlotte Smith
to her Elegiac Sonnets. Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, pp. 19-64. 45 |
Cultural formation | Frances Arabella Rowden | FAR
came from the English middle class. She was an Anglican
in religion. Mary Russell Mitford
represents her as a young teacher taking a relaxed attitude to religious ideas in literary contexts (her students were... |
Occupation | Frances Arabella Rowden | FAR
was clearly a key element, perhaps the key element, in the success of the Hans Place school. She taught the general curriculum there for nearly twenty-five years, from its founding until 1818, and she... |
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