Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Again the novel centres on its heroine; again the message is dark; again Rousseau 's Julie, ou La Nouvelle Héloise is an important presence in the text. This time, however, it is complex rather than...

In this work MH takes a position generally compatible with that of the Dissenters. She was spurred to write by the need to answer Wakefield 's Enquiry into the Expediency and Propriety of Public or...

MW was replying to a number of authoritative male texts about the nature of women: by Burke (who in Reflections on the Revolution in France had glorified Marie-Antoinette and dismissed non-queenly femininity as animal), Rousseau

As it stands, Frankenstein is no ghost story, though it is rich in the uncanny, and aims to chill its reader's blood. MS shows an astonishing power for such a young author of weaving together...

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...

The novel opens with a philosophical dialogue (between males) which makes reference to Voltaire , Hume , Rousseau , and Godwin 's Caleb Williams. Its subtitle sounds like a pointer to autobiographical content, and...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

CB was educated by her father , who was interested in Irish language and culture, and was influenced by the pedagogic ideas of Rousseau . He taught by encouraging her curiosity rather than by...

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...

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...

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...