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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | This edition brings together the duchess's work with that of others including Burns
. OCLC records only a single extant copy, at the University of British Columbia
. Saint Gothard would certainly have appeared in... |
| Textual Production | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
titled a little book of essays Shepherd's Trade: this title embodies her claim to be an author, but conceals the implications of its original in Milton
's Lycidas, which questions the value... |
| Textual Production | Mary Webb | MW
published what is probably her best-known work, her final completed novel, Precious Bane (titled from Milton
's name for gold—part of the natural resources of Hell—in Paradise Lost). The phrase had also been... |
| Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | She also kept up her output of political poetry. Only a few years after this Hannah More
's Bishop Bonner's Ghost (a ballad extolling, through irony, the modern, enlightened Church of England
) drew from... |
| Textual Production | Eva Figes | EF
published with Sinclair-Stevenson
a novel entitled The Tree of Knowledge, centred on the longest-surviving daughter of the poet 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 | Christian Gray | CG
's first book of poetry, Tales, Letters, and other Pieces in Verse, was published at Edinburgh, with a dedication to the dowager Countess of Kinnoull
and a quotation from Milton
on the title-page. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| 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 | 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 |
| Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | 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 | 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. vii |
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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.
25
, No. 2, pp. 7-9. 7
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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