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Literary Setting | Elizabeth Tollet | On the Death of Sir Isaac Newton dwells on the honorific funeral which Tollet, as a woman, would not have attended. On the analogy of Cicero
's restoration of the tomb of Archimedes
, she... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lydia Howard Sigourney | She said she took her inspiration from Cicero
's De senectute (On Old Age), feeling that on this topic a Christian ought to be able to produce something more worthwhile than even a virtuous heathen. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 73 |
Textual Features | Mary Shelley | This novel has an epigraph from John Ford
's The Lover's Melancholy, 1629, about the storms and turmoil of human life. Shelley, Mary. Lodore. Editor Vargo, Lisa, Broadview. 47 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Arabella Rowden | An advertisement (dated 13 April 1810) promises to delineate not only friendship's pleasures but all the great and heroic deeds inspired by it. Rowden, Frances Arabella. The Pleasures of Friendship. A Poem. vii |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Arabella Rowden | The second part opens with quotations from Cicero
and Voltaire
. Rowden, Frances Arabella. The Pleasures of Friendship. A Poem. 47 Rowden, Frances Arabella. The Pleasures of Friendship. A Poem. 63 |
Textual Features | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | The essays include Samuel Pepys
and Francis Bacon
, Lord Verulam
and Viscount St. Albans, A Curiosity of Literature not Mentioned by Isaac Disraeli and Servants. Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Shells from the Sands of Time. Bickers and Son, http://U of Toronto. title-page |
Occupation | Petrarch | Petrarch
contributed importantly to the revival of learning when in the chapter library of Verona he discovered a manuscript containing letters by Cicero
, whose text had been lost for centuries. Feeney, Denis. “Caesar’s Body Shook”. London Review of Books, Vol. 33 , No. 18, pp. 19-20. 19 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | The widely varied quotations heading the chapters include some in Latin (Virgil
, Cicero
, Lucretius
, Horace
) and some in French (Rousseau
, Voltaire
, Marmontel
, and Manon Roland
). The English writers quoted include Mary Robinson
. McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah More | The title-page quotation from Paradise Lost features the archangel Raphael's pronouncement that it is better for human beings to know That which before us lies in daily life than things remote. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Mary Moore | The title-page quotes from Shakespeare
(What's past is Prologue) and Cicero
(That cannot be said too often which is not yet understood). Moore, Edith Mary. The Defeat of Woman. C.W. Daniel Co. prelims |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Montagu | The letters of EM
's youth—to the Duchess of Portland
and to her sister Sarah Scott
—are sparkling, irreverent, and inventive. Some of these were conveyed via Elizabeth Elstob
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Textual Production | Una Marson | The subject-matter of her contributions was dictated and limited by her editor, Dunbar T. Wint
, who did not believe that women had any place in the political or intellectual arena. UM
nevertheless found opportunities... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne-Thérèse de Lambert | She begins her essay on old age (in the form of a letter to her daughter) by pointing out that Cicero
has written on this topic too, to offer some guidance to those who have... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Fanny Aikin Kortright | Pro Aris et Focis shares the antifeminist tone of The Court Suburb Magazine. The Latin phrase, meaning for [our] altars and hearths, was used by Cicero
and many others to imply devotion to sacred... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Francis |
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