Conolly, L. W. “The Censor’s Wife at the Theater: The Diary of Anna Margaretta Larpent, 1700-1800”. Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.
35
, No. 1, pp. 49-64. 64
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Occupation | Anna Margaretta Larpent | AML
may be said to have married into her husband's job: in the words of theatre historian L. W. Conolly
, she sometimes even acted as censor herself. Conolly, L. W. “The Censor’s Wife at the Theater: The Diary of Anna Margaretta Larpent, 1700-1800”. Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 35 , No. 1, pp. 49-64. 64 |
Education | Vernon Lee | Violet also had several German and Swiss governesses. Marie Krebs Schülpbach
, who taught her at Thun in Switzerland when Violet stayed there in 1866-9, was especially influential: they read theGrimms
, Goethe
... |
Literary responses | Liz Lochhead | Mary Queen of Scots was a great hit with critics. In the Times, Irving Wardle
compared the play favourably with Schiller
's Mary Stuart (also playing at the Fringe that year), and the Financial... |
Textual Features | Anna Maria Mackenzie | The introduction also admits Mackenzie's indebtedness to Schiller
's play Die Räuber (1781, translated into English in 1792). She does not name this work, but writes: a very celebrated German author has in his sublime... |
Textual Production | Constance Naden | She chose an epigraph from Schiller
in German, about the dance of the hours. The cover was blue, printed in gold with a trailing spray of leaves and flowers of campanula hederacea, designed by herself... |
Textual Features | Constance Naden | The book is divided into four sections: The Astronomer, etc., The Lady Doctor, etc. (from the poem already printed in London Society), Sonnets, and Translations (which come from Schiller
, Goethe
,... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amelia Opie | Both in an Address to the Editor and in a series of explanatory footnotes, AO
positions herself on the one hand as a historian with a proper regard for available evidence, and on the other... |
Education | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | After Greystone House, Emmeline Pethick started attending a Quaker school in Weston-super-Mare, where her family had moved. She became a boarder at this school when she was twelve. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 57 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Jean Plaidy | Irish critic Colm Tóibín
, who at fourteen used to pretend to be the doomed, charismatic queen, feels that of all the many writers who have treated Mary in fiction, from Burns
, Wordsworth
... |
Textual Features | Ann Radcliffe | The Italian has been read as an answer to The Monk by Lewis
, a vindication of terror (assaults on the nerves, the strain of threatened but imperfectly perceived danger) against horror (sexual obsession and... |
Education | Dora Russell | Here Dora became passionate about Goethe
and Schiller
, Mendelssohn
and Schubert
, and about theatre in general. |
Friends, Associates | Germaine de Staël | In Germany she was celebrated as the author of Delphine. She met with Schiller
, Goethe
, Henry Crabb Robinson
, and Schlegel
, whom she persuaded to tutor her three living children. Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg. 61-2 |
Textual Production | Anna Swanwick | |
Education | Anna Swanwick | |
Textual Features | Anna Swanwick |
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