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, 1998, pp. 469-00. 476
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Standard Name: Gibbon, Edward
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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/. |
| Literary responses | Anna Kingsford | MacLeane
half apologized, for his personal but not his literary judgements, in the issue of 10 April 1875: If . . . any reader of the review was led by it to form an opinion... |
| Literary responses | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | The book received far less attention than Morgan's other recent publications. William Hazlitt
, however, even though he shared her progressive political stance, rapped her over the knuckles in the Edinburgh Review for presuming to... |
| Literary responses | Jan Morris | The TLS seemed inclined to blame Morris for projecting romanticism and sensibility onto the Victorians evoked in the text. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 3480 (7 November 1968): 1240 |
| Literary responses | Agnes Strickland | Despite intense controversy over its details, the work as a whole was a great popular success. It brought AS
fame; it provided a quarry of subject-matter for historical painters; it brought begging letters (presumably written... |
| Occupation | William Law | WL
then worked as a tutor in the Gibbon family, finding a mediocre pupil in Edward (who grew up to be the father of the historian Edward Gibbon
) but a bright and rewarding pupil... |
| 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... |
| Reception | Mary Stewart | Roy Hoffman
in the New York Times found The Wicked Day[i]n almost every way . . . a highly enjoyable romance. New York Times. New York Times Company. (1 January 1984): BR20 |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
wrote to Macready in April 1823 about this play, or the idea for it; she was afraid he did not like it. She found the subject in Gibbon
's Decline and Fall of the... |
| Textual Production | Edith J. Simcox | She began work on this book as early as 1878. McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press, 1961. 75 |
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