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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Anne Dacier | Anne and André Dacier were presented to the king
while they were still Protestants, without any very positive results ensuing. |
Dedications | Marie-Catherine de Villedieu | MCV
's Fables, ou histoires allégoriques, published in 1670, had earlier been presented to the king
(their dedicatee) in the form of a splendid manuscript. Her interest in the genre may have been fed... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Germaine de Staël | GS
's mother, born Suzanne Churchod
, came from a family that had experienced persecution as Protestants during the reign of Louis XIV
. Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg, 1985. 5 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Her choice of genres came from her reading in French, not English, fiction, though Louisa (one of two survivors from a cycle of tales set at the court of Louis XIV
of France) also... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Barker | |
Literary responses | Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton | In his review in the Athenæum, Henry Fothergill Chorley
admitted that the novel wasnot wholly devoid of attraction and that it contained a tolerably lively picture of the court of Louis Quatorze
... |
Literary Setting | Ann Yearsley | After her deliberately egotistical preface AY
erases herself to present her novel as a manuscript written by her male protagonist, Henry, imprisoned in a castle on an island; his tale begins during the night of... |
Performance of text | Marie-Catherine de Villedieu | MCV
's Le Favory became the first play by a woman to be given at a command performance before the French monarch
(with newly-composed music by Jean-Baptiste Lully
and a prologue, now lost, by Molière
). Kuizenga, Donna. “Madame de Villeneuve”. Seventeenth-Century French Writers, edited by Françoise Jaouen, Gale, 2003. 386-7 |
politics | Marie-Catherine d' Aulnoy | Fairy-tale scholar Jack Zipes
writes that although she was an aristocrat and has no appearance of being a rebel, she had been in some difficulty in King Louis XIV
's court, Zipes, Jack. “The Origins of the Fairy Tale for Children or, How Script was Used To Tame the Beast in Us”. Children and Their Books: A Celebration of the Work of Iona and Peter Opie, edited by Gillian Avery and Julia Briggs, Clarendon Press, 1989, pp. 119-34. 127 |
politics | Hester Biddle | HB
visited Queen Mary
and received a pass allowing her to travel to Europe in quest of the French king
, and of an end to the Nine Years War. Rickman, Lydia L. “Esther Biddle and Her Mission to Louis XIV”. Friends Historical Society Journal, Vol. 47 , 1955, pp. 38-45. 38-9 |
politics | Elizabeth Bury | James III had been recognised by Louis XIV
in 1701 (disregarding the claim of Queen Anne
) as king of England, Scotland, and Ireland. |
Publishing | Georgiana Fullerton | In 1857 GF
took the unusual step of publishing in Paris a novel written in French: La Comtesse de Bonneval
, histoire du temps de Louis XIV, with an introduction by P. Douhaire
... |
Residence | Anne Dacier | King Louis XIV
favoured them with apartments in the Louvre Palace, the royal residence in the centre of Paris, which became their home. Spencer, Samia I., editor. Writers of the French Enlightenment I. Gale, 2005. |
Textual Features | Katharine Tynan | In this first volume KT
establishes three themes that recur throughout her later poetry collections: religion, Ireland, and nature. The four monologues here are spoken by historical or legendary heroines: |
Textual Features | Eliza Haywood | This fast-paced story is another of those that Haywood planned as a warning against passion. Set at the court of France, it features a virtuous woman (niece to the historical character Madame de Montespan |
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