Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Anne Francis | An Argument explains the poem's source in Plutarch. AF
's hero, whose father was an associate of Alexander the Great
, is dead after many vicissitudes. His ashes make a triumphal progress by sea from... |
Anthologization | Sarah Fyge | SF
contributed an elegy on Dryden
's death to The Nine Muses; she wrote the same year for another collection on the same topic. Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 30-1 |
Textual Features | Sarah Fyge | The volume nicely mixes the personal and political. SF
shows daring in expressions of love and of refusal to accept conventional restraints of all kinds. She reprints all four of her poems on Dryden
's... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Gerard | This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine |
Intertextuality and Influence | Phebe Gibbes | In addition to its over-riding themes of colonialism and the marriage market, this novel, set in early British Calcutta (and incorporating a good deal of travel book material), is much concerned with literature and with... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | |
Textual Features | Sarah Green | M. G. Lewis
is a more complicated case, treated with some nuance. SG
admires The Monk but feels that after that Lewis's real talent was obscured by the baneful influence of German fiction: she agrees... |
Textual Production | Cicely Hamilton | The title is a complex allusion to traditional gender roles, specifically to the sex appeal of male martial prowess. John Dryden
's line None but the brave deserve the fair (itself in context a propaganda... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Hamilton | EH
seeks to raise the canonical status of the novel in this work not only by serious politico-philosophical content, but also by chapter-heading quotations from the classics (from Horace
, Shakespeare
, and Milton
to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Haywood | This was the first periodical for women to take advantage of the monthly format, which was still fairly new. Unlike other magazines, it used fiction as its staple, while also including advice on behaviour, relationships... |
Literary responses | John Oliver Hobbes | Edmund Gosse
wrote to congratulate JOH
on The Serious Wooing, paying it the high compliment of calling it her new version Hobbes, John Oliver. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes. J. Murray. 203 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | MCH
raises the tone of her work with chapter-headings from Wordsworth
, Shakespeare
, Dryden
, and others, most of them asserting the value of the poor and powerless, or protesting about the deficiencies of... |
Textual Features | Lucy Hutchinson | Lucretius
, as a pagan philosopher and theologian (and, as LH
and her contemporaries believed, insane much of the time and sexually promiscuous), was a daring choice for one of her religious opinions. Lucretius, and Lucretius. “Introduction”. Lucy Hutchinson’s Translation of Lucretius, "De rerum natura", edited by Hugh De Quehen, translated by. Lucy Hutchinson, University of Michigan Press, pp. 1-20. 8, 11 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Isham | She had already had enquiries from prospective husbands when she was in London, but the time of wooing came after her return home: a time marked also by her sister's illness and her own religious... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elinor James | She defends the reputation of Queen Elizabeth
, mentions John Dryden
's dismissal of her in his preface to The Hind and the Panther (published this year) as anti-Catholic, but not one who merits an... |
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