Allatini, Rose. Girl of Good Family. Martin Secker.
51
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Intertextuality and Influence | Rose Allatini | At eighteen, in 1908 (which makes her the same age as her author), she experiences initial social success in Vienna, Allatini, Rose. Girl of Good Family. Martin Secker. 51 |
Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | On 11 May 1812 Henry Crabb Robinson
recorded in his diary meeting JB
and other women writers on a visit to Miss Benjers (Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
). In his account of this pleasant evening... |
Textual Features | Joanna Baillie | The 1798 instalment of the series consists of three plays, two on love (the comedy The Tryal and the tragedy Count Basil) and one, the tragedy De Monfort, on hate. De Monfort himself... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Joanna Baillie | Baillie's preface explicitly denies that she was influenced by (even that she had read) German tragedians, while implicitly calling attention to the similarities in style and subject-matter between her work and theirs: for instance between... |
Textual Production | Mathilde Blind | The first writing by MB
to become public was an ode she wrote in German to mark the centenary of Friedrich Schiller
, which was recited at commemorations in Bradford. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Education | Jane Welsh Carlyle | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dinah Mulock Craik | The narrative provides a fairly complex interrogation of the notion that a woman's love can rescue a man from his sins. The romance in Schiller
's Die Piccolomini provides a point of reference throughout the narrative. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Toru Dutt | |
Textual Features | Penelope Fitzgerald | In life her hero (whose actual name was Friedrich Leopold, or Fritz, von Hardenberg) was a friend of Schiller
and Schlegel
, and died in 1801 before the age of thirty, having just published his... |
Textual Production | Catherine Gore | CG
's historical drama Don Juan of Austria (adapted from Don Juan D'Autriche by Casimir Delavigne
) began a twelve-night run at Covent Garden
. Parts of this story overlap with Friedrich Schiller
's Don... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | FH
studied German earnestly during this period of her life, and preferred Schiller
to Goethe
. Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn. 235 Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315. 54 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth
, Byron
, Coleridge
, Goethe
, Schiller
—and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger |
Education | Julia Ward Howe | Although she briefly attended young ladies' schools, JWH
was mainly educated at home. She was tutored by Joseph Cogswell
, who would go on to head the Astor Library
. Under his instruction she mastered... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | The subtitle of this novel (which in earlier centuries had been the title of a bawdy song) here alludes to a proverb about the impossible perfections of maids' husbands and bachelors' children. This first novel... |
Textual Production | Fanny Kemble | Plays by F.A. Kemble appeared, subtitled An English Tragedy. A Play in Five Acts. Mary Stuart
, translated from the German of Schiller
. Mademoiselle de Belle Isle, translated from the French of Alexandre Dumas |