GE
's father, Scottish barrister Hugh or Hew Dalrymple
, had been a lieutenant in the British army, but took up the law about the time Grissel was born. He was said to have made...
Friends, Associates
Alison Cockburn
She wrote that some of my most steady friends thro' Life were my childhood companions, girls she had been at school with.
Cockburn, Alison. Letters and Memoirs. Editor Craig-Brown, Thomas, David Douglas, 1900.
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Besides Ramsay (whom, too, she had known since her girlhood), Burns
Intertextuality and Influence
Frances Sheridan
The Editor's Introduction names not only Richardson
, but also John Home
, whose tragedy Douglas, read aloud in the novel's opening pages, reminds Sidney's friend Cecilia of the old story of Sidney's distresses...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mrs E. M. Foster
As an epistolary novel, Concealment lacks the characteristic metanarrative of other MEMF
novels, though an interesting prologue addressed to the reader from the Authoress cautions against the practice of concealment. Foster also identifies herself, in...
Intertextuality and Influence
Helen Maria Williams
Julia is layered with allusion not only to Rousseau
and Goethe
but also to John Home
's tragedy Douglas.
Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. “Julie and Julia: Tracing Intertextuality in Helen Maria Williams’s Novel”. Pride and Prejudices, 6 July 2013.
Timeline
December 1756: John Home's tragedy Douglas was enthusiastically...
Writing climate item
December 1756
John Home
's tragedy Douglas was enthusiastically received in Edinburgh by both audiences and critics; in London three months later the former were more unanimously positive than the latter.
Shellenberg, Betty A. “Frances Sheridan Reads John Home: Placing Sidney Bidulph in the Republic of Letters”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.