Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896.
133, 141
Reception
Sarah Lewis
SL
's eclipse into relative obscurity is attributable to a number of factors, and raises the question to what degree she deserved the praise she received. One critic remarks that her fame . ....
Textual Features
Eliza Cook
Her poetic topics strongly reflect her reliance on well-tried promoters of sentiment: death, parting, gypsies, favourite horses and dogs, local feeling for Scotland or Ireland. The collection closes with a section of poems for...
Textual Features
Toru Dutt
TD
opens A Sheaf with a quotation from Schiller
and a dedication to her mother
. The translated poems (nearly all of which have accompanying critical notes) come from a range of French authors including...
Textual Production
Jessie White Mario
In 1855 she probably published in The Biographical Magazine the life of Felicité de Lammenais
, excommunicated French priest, literary critic, and translator, whom she met while studying at the Sorbonne
. The article appeared...
Textual Production
Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
Jane Francesca Elgee (soon to be JFLW
) translated, Pictures of the First French Revolution by Marie Louis Alphonse de Lamartine de Prat
.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production
Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
In the year of her marriage Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
(or Speranza), translated Marie Louis Alphonse de Lamartine de Prat
's The Wanderer and His Home.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1219 (8 March 1851): 269
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
The story concerns the life of Duchesse de Berry
and begins with a note: Writers of historical fiction are, for the most part, thieves. Many of the following pages have been stolen . ....
Violence
Bessie Rayner Parkes
Not only had the occupying troops burned the furniture and staircases, defaced the pictures or shot them full of holes: out of the dungheaps covering the gardens were retrieved letters or scraps of letters from...
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Texts
Lamartine, Alphonse de. Pictures of the First French Revolution. Translator Wilde, Jane Francesca, Lady, Simms and McIntyre, 1850.
Lamartine, Alphonse de. The Wanderer and His Home. Translator Wilde, Jane Francesca, Lady, Simms and McIntyre, 1851.