Dowd, Maureen A. “’By the Delicate Hand of a Female’: Melodramatic Mania and Joanna Baillie’s Spectacular Tragedies”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
9
, No. 4, pp. 469-00. 476
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Joanna Baillie | JB
took her subject-matter from Gibbon
's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Her play's magnificence and show Dowd, Maureen A. “’By the Delicate Hand of a Female’: Melodramatic Mania and Joanna Baillie’s Spectacular Tragedies”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 9 , No. 4, pp. 469-00. 476 |
Education | Sybille Bedford | The idea had been that Jack and Suzan Robbins should select a boarding school for Sibylle and have her to stay for the holidays. Instead, with the money provided by her family and trustees, they... |
Textual Features | Hannah Brand | This heroic tragedy (full title Huniades; or, The Siege of Belgrade) is given with passages restored that were omitted in performance. It is set in 1456 (three years after Constantinople, capital of the Christian... |
Textual Features | Brigid Brophy | The title-piece is the last and longest in the volume. It belongs to the once-popular genre of dialogues of the dead. Its characters are Voltaire
(who had been used this way several times before), Gibbon |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothea Celesia | DC
's stepmother, born Lucy Elstob
, was a distant relation of the scholar 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. |
Friends, Associates | Dorothea Celesia | DC
's birth family had accustomed her to moving in literary, political, and theatrical circles, and her friends included Mary Lady Hervey
, David Hume
, David Garrick
, and Edward Gibbon
. Her father... |
Residence | Dorothea Celesia | As well as their Genoan town house, the Celesia family had a country seat which Edward Gibbon
reported as still wilder than Beriton or Buriton, his own family estate in below the South Downs in... |
Friends, Associates | Dorothea Celesia | Gibbon
visited DC
again in May and June 1764 in Genoa (where he was staying after finding Venice impossibly expensive). Again she received him with a friendliness beyond mere politeness and introduced him to some... |
Reception | Dorothea Celesia | A prologue by William Whitehead
mentioned DC
's right to inherit her father's theatrical talent, in spite of her sex: No Salick law here bars the female's claim. It concluded with the statement that critics... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hester Mulso Chapone | HMC
was still reading and commenting on others' works into her old age. She read and remarked on Hester Piozzi
, Charlotte Smith
, Edward Gibbon
, Erasmus Darwin
's The Loves of the Plants... |
Education | Catherine Cookson | As a young adult CC
took on her own education. With varying degrees of success she studied grammar, elocution, French, and the violin. She also discovered the public library. Colleagues at work got her to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | As a widow, Lady Elizabeth received a proposal of marriage from Edward Gibbon
; she turned him down. |
Education | Elinor Glyn | After Elinor Sutherland (later EG
) turned fourteen she no longer had a governess. Eager for intellectual stimulation, she took it upon herself to read everything in her stepfather
's book collection, which had recently... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Hamilton | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Beatrice Harraden | This novel's central episode of a chance encounter between strangers became one of BH
's favourite themes. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |