Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Deverell | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Jacson | The title-page quotes from Milton
's Samson Agonistes. An address To the Dethroned Sovereign Truth hopes for the restoration of this power which, says the author, is still present although obsolete and obscure. Her... |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Watts | The first number, dated 1 December 1824, opens with The Editors to the Reader, in which Watts's three personae introduce themselves as sisters. They are very literary personifications, who possess, respectively, the actual spear... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Shelley | As it stands, Frankenstein is no ghost story, though it is rich in the uncanny, and aims to chill its reader's blood. MS
shows an astonishing power for such a young author of weaving together... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Seward | AS
was writing religious verse at ten or twelve years old. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 8 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Joanna Baillie | The poems present human shifts of mood and quirks of feeling. They are sensitively observed and charmingly written. The only modern poets she yet knew of to admire, JB
said later, were William Hayley
and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | Charlotte Lennox
is alluded to in this book (though AG
gives her birth name wrongly as Massey), Grant, Anne. Memoirs of an American Lady. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. 1: 21n |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Hatton | This novel is well supplied with quotations: Macpherson
's Ossian
on the title-page and Robert Blair
(The Grave) to open the first volume, with Shakespeare
and Milton
for the succeeding volumes. It opens... |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Shelley | The epigraph is a quotation from Milton
's Paradise Lost about not seeking to know the future. MS
frames the story with a visit she made to the Sybil's Cave near Naples (though some have... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Seward | In metre and general tone it remembers Milton
's L'Allegro. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Taylor | In her pursuit of female independence, Taylor refutes Milton
's assertion in Paradise Lost (He for God only, and she for God in him), Taylor, Mary. The First Duty of Women. Emily Faithfull. 177 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | As well as her central allusion to Barbauld, AG
claims authority for her work by quoting Milton
on her title-page and later as well, and by echoing, in her deliberately derivative, that is traditional style... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Augusta Webster | She refers to the campaign for the vote as a side-effect of a disturbance in the relation of the sexes, of the Paradisaical, or Milton
ic, Webster, Augusta. “Parliamentary Franchise for Women Ratepayers”. Before the Vote Was Won: Arguments For and Against Women’s Suffrage, edited by Jane Lewis, Routledge, pp. 338-41. 338 |
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