Aspasia

Standard Name: Aspasia

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships Margery Lawrence
He worked mostly in meals for hotels and railways, but served on government food committees in both world wars.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(2 September 1948): 6
Curiously, ML describes her marrying him in a poem titled Aspasia Married...
Textual Features Caroline Frances Cornwallis
The plot revolves around the attempt made by certain corrupt aristocrats to destroy Pericles' reputation and secure his power and influence for themselves.
“Art. III. Pericles. A Tale of Athens in the 83rd Olympiad.The Eclectic Review, Vol.
new series xx
, Thomas Ward & Co., 1846, pp. 40-60.
(1846): 44
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Pericles. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1846, 2 vols.
v-vi
His friends are charged with a variety of crimes...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eliza Lynn Linton
She defends herself in her preface (written in June 1848) against the charge that in publishing another novel from ancient history she is guilty of pedantry and presumption for choosing subjects beyond a woman's grasp...

Timeline

March 1836: Walter Savage Landor published Pericles and...

Writing climate item

March 1836

Walter Savage Landor published Pericles and Aspasia, a collection of imaginary letters between the Athenian statesman and the learned and cultivated courtesan.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
441 (1836): 253
Wheeler, Stephen, and Thomas J. Wise. A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Walter Savage Landor. Bibliographical Society, 1919.
87
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Elwin, Malcolm. Landor, a Replevin. Macdonald, 1958.
285

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