Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, pp. 317-44. 327
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Barker | JB
opens this work with a nostalgic glance backward at about sixty-six years of political thinking and literary writing. Her dedication To the Ladies is immensely engaging. She takes up the story of Galesia, now... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy Bussy | In this text the titular heroine narrates her experiences at the French boarding school Les Avons. Here, Olivia forms friendships with several other schoolgirls, but is most fascinated by her headmistress, Mlle Julie, who runs... |
Textual Features | Anne Dacier | Dacier maintained that Terence had conformed in his plots to the unities of time, place, and action (which were highly valued by pundits of the time, and obeyed by French classical tragedians like Corneille
and... |
Literary responses | Sarah Kane | Meanwhile fellow-playwright Mark Ravenhill
, having initially concluded from the reviews that this was a bad play, was astonished at reading the first few lines and knowing that I was in the hands of a... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Kane | This play recalls Racine
's version of the story in Phèdre, but actually refers to Racine's source, Seneca
's Phaedra (perhaps following in the footsteps of Caryl Churchill
's version of Seneca's Thyestes... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Lennox | Garrick rejected another of CL
's dramatic works in 1774: Bajazet, a tragedy translated and adapted from Jean Racine
. Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 18 , No. 4, pp. 317-44. 327 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Murray | Frances Milton never blames her father for his unkindness; she still owes him total gratitude and devotion, which she seems to regard as on a par with our debt of love and gratitude to God... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Kate O'Brien | The love of Tom and Angèle—her early perception that I love him; I love him enough O’Brien, Kate. The Last of Summer. Virago. 122 |
Performance of text | Jane Robe | Late in the season, JR
's tragedy (and only known work) The Fatal Legacy, translated from La Thébaïde by Jean Racine
, opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields
; it ran just three nights. Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press. 397 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Robe | JR
writes a stylish if extravagant blank verse, arguably superior to that of most contemporary dramatists. She makes fairly free with Racine
's ending to the story of the rebellious brothers Eteocles and Polynices and... |
Textual Production | A. Mary F. Robinson | |
Education | Dora Russell | Her subjects included German and French, philosophy and literature, particularly such writers as Kant
, Heine
, Pascal
, Racine
, and Voltaire
. Among English authors, she admired George Meredith
(Modern Love))... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Morgan describes chiefly Paris and its society, ostensibly on the model of Germaine de Staël
's L'Allemagne. She does indeed include French culture centrally among her topics: she criticises the works of Corneille
and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Thomas | The quotations that head her chapters range through more than a dozen well-known male names from Shakespeare
through Racine
in French, Prior
and Pope
to Sterne
and Burke
, plus a couple of unidentified women.... |
Education | Rose Tremain | RT
and her English teacher assumed that she would do A level exams at Crofton Grange and then try for a place at Oxford: she needed only to work harder at Latin. Tremain, Rose. Rosie. Scenes from a Vanished Life. Chatto. 152-3, 158 |