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...
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.
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but her reading of dubious texts (not only Schiller
's Maria Stuart but...
