Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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...

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...

GS released a limited edition of Lettres sur les ouvrages et le caractère de J.-J. Rousseau (Letters on the Works and Character of Jean-Jacques Rousseau).

Rousseau , along with Montesquieu , was one of the formative influences on the young GS .

Among other things this is an answer to Rousseau 's Julie; ou, La nouvelle Héloïse, 1761 (in which GS found the famous line about the soul having no sex). It is also a response...

This epistolary novel charts the growth of love between two innocent, idealistic youngsters who barely understand their own feelings; the girl (named Olivia, like Owenson's sister ) is betrothed to someone else. Rousseau 's Nouvelle...

Critics in general, from first publication onwards, tended to identify Sydney Owenson with her heroine; the name Glorvina stuck to her thenceforward. The Critical Review (whose notice spelled this name wrong throughout) said it could...

Richard Graves may have been disappointed, for the introduction and early lives are substantially the same as in the 1778 version which he had already read (though Hester Mulso Chapone has been added to the...

FT published some short pieces, mostly sketches of her travels such as Midnight Passage of Mont du Chat in the November 1843 issue of New Monthly Magazine, and The Value of a Shawl the...

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...

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. The love-triangle of Williams's Julia is...

Julia is layered with allusion not only to Rousseau and Goethe but also to John Home 's tragedy Douglas.

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...

It was dedicated to the French statesman Talleyrand , a supporter of the Revolution and the reputed lover of Germaine de Staël . She produced a second, revised edition by the end of the year...

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