Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Blaise Pascal
Standard Name: Pascal, Blaise
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Cultural formation | Emily Lawless | EL
was born into a landowning Irish family. Her mother's heritage was particularly ancient, originating in the west of Ireland. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. |
Cultural formation | Hannah More | In conversation she defended some of the seventeenth-century Puritans (notably Richard Baxter
) and referred to my old friends at the Port-Royal
. qtd. in Roberts, William, 1767 - 1849. Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Hannah More. 4th ed., L. and G. Seeley, 1836, 2 vols., http://Rutherford HSS. 1: 278 Waldron, Mary. “Mentors Old and New: Samuel Johnson and Hannah More”. New Rambler, 1995–1996, pp. 29-37. 31 Port-Royal was a convent of Cistercian nuns at Versailles... |
Education | Dora Russell | Her subjects included German and French, philosophy and literature, particularly such writers as Kant
, Heine
, Pascal
, Racine
, and Voltaire
. Among English authors, she admired George Meredith
(Modern Love))... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah More | The title-page quotation from Paradise Lost features the archangel Raphael's pronouncement that it is better for human beings to know That which before us lies in daily life than things remote. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | The contents are heterogenous, like those of the first volume (the same letter-books are drawn on again) but more so, with actual letters, poetry, essays, and translation, together with short fictions. The essays-in-letters include (in... |
Author summary | Natalie Clifford Barney | Natalie Clifford Barney
, though American, is best known as a Paris salonnière. She specialized in memoirs and pensées, though she also produced poetry, drama, novels, essays, and dialogues. Writing primarily in French but also... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Among the contents and specifically mentioned on the title-page is a translated essay entitled Thoughts on Death which comes from the Moral Essays of the Messieurs du Port Royal—that is, from the Jansenist
movement... |
Textual Production | A. Mary F. Robinson | AMFR
published another biography, Portrait of Pascal, again under her married name. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
Textual Production | A. Mary F. Robinson | Two years later she followed this book with a collection of short pieces on the same topic, The French Ideal: Pascal
, Fénelon
and other Essays, published as by Madame Duclaux . “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
Textual Production | Frances Reynolds | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy Bussy | In this text the titular heroine narrates her experiences at the French boarding school Les Avons. Here, Olivia forms friendships with several other schoolgirls, but is most fascinated by her headmistress, Mlle Julie, who runs... |
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1670: Les Pensées de M. Pascal sur la réligion,...
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1670
Les Pensées de M. Pascal
sur la réligion, et sur quelques autres sujets was posthumously published: it takes the form of a collection of aphorisms and very brief essays.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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