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.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Amelia B. Edwards | John Cordy Jeaffreson
gave two full Athenæum columns to Half-a-Million of Money, but largely in order to complain that in spite of its unusual plot the novel was essentially derivative, and sapped his confidence... |
Intertextuality and Influence | George Eliot | As she moved on intellectually from her religious youth, she became steeped in the Higher Criticism of the Bible, and increasingly interested in alternative explanatory systems, particularly those of social science—including Herbert Spencer
... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Fenwick | This epistolary novel, set mainly in a castle with secret passages connecting to a monastic ruin , deals with strictly contemporary issues of power and independence. It reflects the influence of EF
's friend Wollstonecraft |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eva Figes | A wide spread of social institutions and systems of knowledge interests EF
: she looks at the force of gendered attitudes in theology, commerce, education, psychology and philosophy. |
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... |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Griffith | He describes her with a line from Donne
's Second Anniversary. EG
's range of reference here includes Rousseau
, Milton
, Frances Greville
, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
. Characters discuss and... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Hamilton | Again EH
takes the radicals as her target. The phrase modern philosophers was in common use: the Gentleman's Magazine had turned it on Mary Wollstonecraft in reviewing her first major political work. Yet Hamilton makes... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Hays | |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Helme | Bibliographer Montague Summers
named EH
as translator of Jean-Claude Gorgy
's Sainte-Alme; 1790. The English version appeared anonymously as St Alma, A Novel, by April 1791, but it is now unlisted in standard... |
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... |
Textual Production | Maria Elizabetha Jacson | This book appeared, like her next, as by a Lady; the British Library
copy (filmed for Eighteenth Century Collections Online) has a manuscript note identifying the author on the printed testimony of Erasmus... |
Textual Features | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb
, but also Dugald Stewart
and Henry Brougham
), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice
against... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | The book bears in various details the influence of Jane Austen
, though its overall project of pious didacticism is at odds with Austen's approach. The title-page quotes Rousseau
on the topic of the sensitive... |
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