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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marjorie Bowen | |
Education | Pearl S. Buck | Mr Kung despised fiction and the Sydenstricker library contained only the supposedly factual Plutarch
's Lives and Foxe
's Book of Martyrs, but Pearl read fiction avidly in both Chinese and English, devouring Shakespeare |
Literary responses | Mary Butts | The novel's success was slightly diminished by comparisons drawn between it and Jack Lindsay
's Last Days With Cleopatra, which appeared just a few weeks before it. Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company. 380 |
Textual Production | Anne Dacier | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Delany | Janice Thaddeus
discusses the prerogative MD
assumed in giving names of her own invention to people and places. Her uncle Lansdowne was Alcander (a violent man mentioned in Plutarch
's Lives, who was forgiven... |
Textual Production | Queen Elizabeth I | |
Textual Production | Anne Francis | AF
published, again through Dodsley
, The Obsequies of Demetrius Poliorcetes
: A Poem, based on a story in Plutarch
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 60 (September 1785): 230 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Helme | EH
adapted a classic text (the actual translation was not her own): Plutarch
's Lives Abridged, in a form Calculated for the Instruction of Youth Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 2nd ser. 13 (1794): 391 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Helme | The longer descriptive title suggests Plutarch's neat combination, for educational purposes, of information with moral judgement: Plutarch
's Lives Abridged, in which the Historical Parts are Carefully Preserved, and the Comparisons of the Respective Lives... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | The volume provides lavish notes to explain its sometimes quite obscure historical figures and settings, and cites a wide range of authors including Plutarch
, Shakespeare
, Milton
, and Germaine de Staël
. FH |
Education | Elizabeth Inchbald | |
Education | Annie Keary | Annie was an eager reader, and in a comparative dearth of children's books she read the educationalist Rollin
and the ancient historian Plutarch
at an early age. It is probably Charles Rollin who is meant... |
Textual Production | Olivia Manning | New Stories also published Pamela Hansford Johnson
, Dylan Thomas
, and Stephen Spender
. OM
's title, which is challenging in a way that was characteristic for this stage of her career, comes from... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Montagu | EM
seems to have influenced this work as a whole, in persuading Lyttelton
to reshape it into dialogue from the epistolary form (letters from the dead to the living). Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable. 2: 179 |
Education | Katherine Parr | KP
's mother taught her reading and writing at the early age of three or four. A tutor taught her Latin and possibly French when she was only about seven. By the time she was... |
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