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Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Jane Vardill | AJV
translates from Sappho
, Anacreon
, Alcæus
, Theocritus
, Horace
, and more recent poets: Petrarch
and Camoens
. She includes several charity poems: the one already published in aid of the Refuge for the Destitute |
Education | Lady Arbella Stuart | LAS
had a varied upbringing, living in the households of Bess of Hardwick, Mary Queen of Scots, and her aunt and uncle Mary and Gilbert Talbot. Before she was eight she was betrothed for the... |
Education | Lady Louisa Stuart | LLS
grew up under her mother's eye, and was educated through both reading and social contact. She later remembered reading Henry Mackenzie
's The Man of Feeling at fourteen and fearing she might not cry... |
Textual Production | Sarah, Lady Cowper | Further commonplace-book volumes compiled by SLC
include excerpts from the Bible and from moral authors (among whom Plutarch
is prominent), her own bible commentary (begun in May 1700), a volume of prayers, meditations, an index... |
Literary responses | Sappho | Sappho was praised by many of the great names in the classical world: Socrates
, Lucian
, Plutarch
, Aristotle
(who, however, wrote, the Mytileans honored Sappho even though she was a woman), Sappho, and Andrew R. Burn. Lyrics in the Original Greek. Translator Barnstone, Willis, New York University Press. 167 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Renault | MR
based her book on the outline from Plutarch
's Life of Theseus. However, the novel also enters into scholarly debates about the origins of Mycenaean culture by portraying the replacement of a matriarchal... |
Education | Clara Reeve | As well as saying that her father had taught her all she knew, CR
also later complained to a friend that at an age when most children were still illiterate, she had gaped and yawned... |
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... |
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 |
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... |
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... |
Education | Elizabeth Inchbald | |
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 |
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... |
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