Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Marie Jeanne Phlipon Roland de la Platière
Standard Name: Roland de la Platière, Marie Jeanne Phlipon
Used Form: Marie Jeanne Phlipon Roland de la Platiere
Used Form: Manon Roland
Used Form: Marie-Jeanne Roland
Used Form: Madame Roland
Connections
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Textual Production | Mathilde Blind | |
Literary responses | Lydia Maria Child | John Greenleaf Whittier
felt that this novel, together with LMC
's lives of Manon Roland
and Germaine de Staël
(first volume in The Ladies' Family Library) showed that polemical writing had not harmed her... |
Textual Production | Lydia Maria Child | In 1832 appeared The Biographies of Madame de Staël
and Madame Roland and The Biographies of Lady Russell
and Madame Guyon. The following year came Good Wives—which in later editions sometimes appeared as... |
Textual Features | Lydia Maria Child | LMC
's first four subjects were all known for their writings and for their resistance to tyrannical authority, either political or religious, but she is more interested here in what she alleges to have been... |
Literary responses | Florence Dixie | Holyoake
, the dedicatee, in his prefatory piece (like W. Stewart Ross
commenting on The Story of Ijain) defends FD
's work not only by assertion (it is a a marvel of thought... |
politics | Frances Isabella Duberly | Her war experience played havoc with FID
's gender attitudes. Amid disease, death, cruelty, and official complacency, she wrote in a letter that she had become too hard to cry for anyone but her horse:... |
Literary responses | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | The future JFLW
's early verse inspired many to submit articles to the Nation. Wyndham, Horace. Speranza. T. V. Boardman. 27-8 |
Author summary | Mary Leadbeater | |
Occupation | Mary Leadbeater | Around the time they were married, the couple entertained an extensive plan for moving to revolutionary France and engaging in educational and political activities (including work for the abolition of slavery) under the auspices of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catharine Macaulay | Though CM
's work later became synonymous with radical history, at its first appearance moderate Whigs likeThomas Gray
and Horace Walpole
thought it the most sensible, unaffected, and best history of England that we... |
Textual Production | Alice Meynell | She was unhappy that Sargent
's portrait of her was reproduced as the frontispiece, but was otherwise pleased with the book and its sales. It included four previously unpublished essays, two of them on the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | |
Textual Features | Mrs F. C. Patrick | In the course of a busy plot Augusta is abducted, but saves herself from a forced marriage (her mother, the instigator of this outrage, affects to think her married in the sight of Heaven) by... |
Literary responses | Lady Rachel Russell | As love-letters, they made a great and immediate impression on their readers. Yet later this year Mary Russell Mitford
wrote of LRR
with dislike. Mitford found her heavy, preachy, and prosy. As a writer, she... |
Publishing | Ethel Savi | John Lane
asked her to meet his reader, M. P. (Mary Patricia) Willcocks
(herself the author of some very clever novels), who suggested that ES
should rewrite her manuscript. Savi, Ethel. My Own Story. Hutchinson. 164 M. P. Willcocks was... |
Timeline
31 May-2 June 1793: Power was seized in France in a coup d'état...
National or international item
31 May-2 June 1793
Power was seized in France in a coup d'état by the faction called La Montagne or the Montagnards (mountaineers, from their seats high up in the assembly).
8 November 1793: Manon Roland, formerly regarded as a leader...
National or international item
8 November 1793
Manon Roland
, formerly regarded as a leader of the Girondins
or moderate revolutionaries (often known as Madame Roland), was guillotined in Paris.
1911: Ida Ashworth Taylor contributed the Life...
Women writers item
1911
Ida Ashworth Taylor
contributed the Life of Madame Roland to her oeuvre of biographies.
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