Pearson, Susanna. The Medallion. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1794, 3 vols.
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Education | Catherine Cookson | As a young adult CC
took on her own education. With varying degrees of success she studied grammar, elocution, French, and the violin. She also discovered the public library. Colleagues at work got her to... |
Education | Elinor Glyn | After Elinor Sutherland (later EG
) turned fourteen she no longer had a governess. Eager for intellectual stimulation, she took it upon herself to read everything in her stepfather
's book collection, which had recently... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriette Wilson | A letter published in the English Spy in April 1825 alleged that HW
's paternal grandmother was Elizabeth Dubouchette
, mistress of Lord Chesterfield
, so that her father was half-brother of Philip Stanhope
... |
Friends, Associates | Jean Marishall | While in LondonJM
was in touch with a long list of patrons or prospective patrons, including those eminent in both the social and literary worlds. The socially prominent included (as well as a colonel... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Pearson | The family attends the funeral of Mirabeau
; Pearson, Susanna. The Medallion. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1794, 3 vols. 2: 89 Pearson, Susanna. The Medallion. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1794, 3 vols. 3: 98 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Judith Cowper Madan | Her mother had died in 1727 and her father re-married the month before this poem. JCM
had left her childhood home for good, and was staying with her husband's friend Lord Chesterfield
, while awaiting... |
Publishing | Sarah Lady Pennington | She appended her signature in the same form as before, S. Pennington, to her preface. The subscribers are a highly impressive collection in terms of social status; few writers subscribed and those, like Lord Chesterfield |
Textual Features | Catherine Cookson | Kate Hannigan opens with the birth of Kate's illegitimate child and flashes back to Kate's childhood on Tyneside, which is marked by violence and sexual abuse. Kate often lies in bed wishing to protect... |
Textual Production | Jean Marishall | JM
says the idea of writing a comedy was first suggested to her by Hope amid the disappointments that attended the appearance of her first novel. Marishall, Jean. A Series of Letters. C. Elliot, 1788, 2 vols. 2: 195 |
Textual Production | Catherine Cookson | She later described her instructions to herself for this book as, Forget about Chesterfield
and Lords and Ladies and their big houses. Get rid of them. . . . Bring in Kate
as you know... |
Textual Production | Catherine Cookson | In 1991, told that she might die at any time, CC
instructed her husband to burn her manuscript notes, diaries, and letters, as well as the autobiography in progress. Jones, Kathleen. Catherine Cookson: The Biography. Constable, 1999. 310-11 |
Textual Production | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | In 1844 HCJ
, as the author of the Maid's Husband, published a two-volume translation of the memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz
, under the title Cardinal de Retz... |
Textual Production | Samuel Johnson | SJ
addressed his famous epistolary snub to Lord Chesterfield
, the arbiter of fashion and literature who had promised his patronage to Johnson's forthcoming Dictionary. Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols. 1: 94-7 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
here relates the lives of five people who succeeded in living according to [c]oherent schemes of human behaviour, putting into practice their own theories of the good life. Cato (The Stoic) and George Sand... |
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