Brooke, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Charlotte Brooke’s Reliques of Irish Poetry, edited by Lesa Ni Mhunghaile, Irish Manuscripts Commission, p. xxv - xliv.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Anna Sewell | |
| Education | Dorothy Wellesley | She also furthered her own education by early-morning visits to the library, sometimes permitted though sometimes stopped, during which she read everything I could lay hands on, including Tennyson
, Matthew Arnold
, Swift
's... |
| Education | George Sand | Her upbringing had a freedom in accordance with the dictates of Rousseau
rather than the conventions of her class. Her father's tutor, François Deschartres, instructed the young Aurore in botany, mathematics, Latin, and Greek. At... |
| Education | Julia Kristeva | Most of JK
's education in Bulgaria took place in French (a habit among the intelligentsia dating from before Communism), though Russian was also a compulsory subject. Her parents were unusual in choosing a French-speaking... |
| Education | Charlotte Brooke | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
's life was complicated by her relationship with Lady Elizabeth Foster
: a relationship which involved her husband as well, since Bess shared him during Georgiana's life and married him after... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Shelley | Percy Shelley
had dreams of enacting sexual liberation which Mary did not fully share. In France in 1814 she declined to swim naked in a river with him; according to Claire she objected that it... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lucie Duff Gordon | LDG
endeavoured to be prepared for the arrival of her child; she purportedly continued reading Rousseau
's Émile (a treatise on education which devotes almost all of its attention to boys) until well into her... |
| Fictionalization | Héloïse | Since then she has remained a favourite subject for fiction (generally in her role as mistress rather than writer or churchwoman). Alexander Pope
spread her reputation considerably when he borrowed her voice for his popular... |
| Friends, Associates | Alison Cockburn | Her friendship with Hume
was one of ease and intimacy. She joked with him and teased him, tried earnestly to convert him from atheism to Christianity, urged him to visit France and to bring Rousseau |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | This work of pedagogy takes the form of an epistolary novel: a picture of contemporary culture, since its range of reference to other texts is wide. It assumes, like Rousseau
's Nouvelle Héloïse, the... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Maria Williams | This novel re-writes Rousseau
's Julie; ou, La nouvelle Héloise in the sentimental style of Frances Sheridan
's Sidney Bidulph or Henry Mackenzie
's Julia de Roubigné. Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon. 33 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | |
| 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 | Helen Maria Williams |
Timeline
1 November 1755: A major earthquake at Lisbon in Portugal...
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1 November 1755
A major earthquake at Lisbon in Portugal killed more than 10,000 people (estimates vary), provoking theological debate between Rousseau
and Voltaire
about the nature of evil.
January 1761: Jean-Jacques Rousseau published his epistolary...
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January 1761
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
published his epistolarynovelJulie; ou, La nouvelle Héloïse; it was translated into English the same year by William Kenrick
.
By October 1762: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Émile, a novel of...
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By October 1762
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
's Émile, a novel of education published in the earlier part of this year in French, had its first English translation as Emilius and Sophia.
1764: Mademoiselle d'Espinassy published Essai...
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1764
Mademoiselle d'Espinassy
published Essaisur l'éducation des demoiselles, a considered response to Rousseau
's Emile.
1774: Louise d'Epinay, former friend and patron...
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1774
Louise d'Epinay
, former friend and patron of Rousseau
, published Conversations d'Emilie, a book on education for girls designed to counter the message of his Emile.
1785: Botanist Thomas Martyn translated into English...
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1785
Botanist Thomas Martyn
translated into English a work of Rousseau
's of 1771-3 as Letters on the Elements of Botany, Addressed to a Lady: it had eight editions in the next thirty years.
By July 1788: The publication of a Beauties of Rousseau...
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By July 1788
The publication of a Beauties of Rousseau marked his popularity in England.
Between 25 and 27 August 1789: In Paris, the National Assembly adopted the...
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Between 25 and 27 August 1789
By August 1794: Rousseau's autobiographical Confessions appeared...
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By August 1794
9 July 1798: George Canning, writing in the Anti-Jacobin,...
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9 July 1798
George Canning
, writing in the Anti-Jacobin, lambasted sensibility as a literary mode stemming from France, from Rousseau
, and from diseased fancy, effeminacy, and self-obsession.
1801: Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi suggested, in...
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1801
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
suggested, in Wie Gertrud ihre Kinder lehrt, that girls' education is even more vital than boys', since girls will one day educate children of their own.
Texts
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. “Editorial Materials”. Rousseau Religious Writings, edited by Ronald Grimsley, Clarendon Press, 1970.