Tobias Smollett

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Standard Name: Smollett, Tobias

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Textual Production Anna Maria Mackenzie
Francis, The Philanthropist is included among Chawton House Library 's Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The author (not AMM ) says she intends, even though she admires Richardson , to emulate Henry Fielding and Smollett ...
Textual Features Catharine Macaulay
Her topics here, all relevant to the escalating American demands for independence, are the declining economy, rising prices, and an oppressive burden of taxes.
Copeland, Edward. Women Writing about Money: Women’s Fiction in England, 1790-1820. Cambridge University Press.
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She was entering a debate previously carried on among such...
Textual Features Charlotte Lennox
A magazine (a genre only thirty years old) conventionally reprinted material first published elsewhere, and Lennox employed contributions from others, but she also did a great a great deal of translating and original writing herself...
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Hutton
Jane Oakwood says (presumably standing in for her author, as she often does) that in youth she was accused of imitating Juliet, Lady Catesby (Frances Brooke 's translation from Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni ).
Hutton, Catherine. Oakwood Hall. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Barbara Hofland
BH also pays much attention in her poems to other writers. Stanzas to the River Don footnotes Wortley Hall as a former home of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu .
Hofland, Barbara. Poems. Printed by J. Montgomery, and sold by Vernor and Hood.
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Ode to Apathy...
Literary responses Eliza Haywood
In the Monthly Review, Ralph Griffiths passed a judgement which was inflected against Betsy Thoughtless by issues of gender. He guessed that the author was female because of the novel's attention to matters of...
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Green
This preface is headed by two Latin words (one with a faulty grammatical ending) from Ovid 's description of chaos. SG slams both male and female novelists, chiefly authors of gothic or horrid novels and...
Intertextuality and Influence Anne Grant
The day was spent travelling from Glasgow to Inveraray. The writer throws in quotations and allusions (Edward Young , the Bible, Macpherson 's Ossian and Homer 's Odyssey, Sterne and Smollett
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Grant
Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson (whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises),
Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme.
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it encompasses Blair , Sterne and Smollett as travel-writers, and Homer . Grant charges Samuel Johnson
Textual Features Catherine Gore
The title-page quotes Byron pronouncing shame to the land of the Gaul.
Gore, Catherine. The Lettre de Cachet; and, The Reign of Terror. J. Andrews.
title-page
A preface combats the general prejudice against a single volume
Gore, Catherine. The Lettre de Cachet; and, The Reign of Terror. J. Andrews.
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by citing works of fiction which are short but widely admired...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Gilding
Like her, he was a contributor to magazines: a juvenile work by him appeared in the Lady's Magazine in 1775, and he later contributed to the European and other magazines under the name of Fidelio...
Family and Intimate relationships Grace Elliott
GE 's father, Scottish barrister Hugh or Hew Dalrymple , had been a lieutenant in the British army, but took up the law about the time Grissel was born. He was said to have made...
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothea Du Bois
This most sensational trial of the mid-century was reported in detail by the Gentleman's Magazine the following year, and used in more or less avowed fictions by Eliza Haywood in Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young...
Family and Intimate relationships May Drummond
MD 's second brother, Alexander , must be the one who was said to be the only member of her family not to oppose her becoming a Quaker preacher.
Story, Thomas.
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Alexander set off in May...
Textual Production Sarah Chapone
It was printed by Samuel Richardson . The British Library copy is T 1568 (7). The month after publication SC wrote to Richardson to express concern that he had identified her as the author: I...

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