Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
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death | William Shakespeare | By tradition this is reckoned to have been his fifty-second birthday. It is also the day on which Miguel de Cervantes
died. The concatenation of these dates prompted the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
Education | Linda Villari | During the time she spent at her great-aunt's house in Croydon, LV
's novel suggests she was taught at home by a family governess, a close friend of her mother, identified there as Miss... |
Education | Frances Mary Peard | However, according to her biographer, Mary J. Y. Harris
, she was largely self-taught. Her mother never restricted her reading, and she later remembered tackling at an early age such classics as Scott
, Shakespeare |
Education | Elinor Glyn | |
Education | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Because of her mother's early death, MBE
, she said later, was largely self-educated, her teachers being plenty of the best books. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893. 124 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Loudon | In prose the opening tale, Julia de Clifford, presents a well-meaning but thoughtless and impulsive heroine who progresses from dressing up as a ghost to scare the servants, to plunging her lover into despair... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Tabitha Tenney | The minor characters in the story include Dorcasina's maid, Betty Boyd, the Sancho Panza to her QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes
, who is stereotypically quick-witted and ingenious but naive, often uncomprehending but often, too, bailing her mistress out... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Smythies | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Aphra Behn | The opening scene introduces two unmarried lovers who have obviously only just got out of bed. Characters refer with off-hand frankness to sex between men and boys. The subplot comes from Cervantes
. Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997. 149ff |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | After this tirade the novel is more fun than one might anticipate. The title-page quotes Sir John Vanbrugh
. The story opens with SG
's gentleman hero, Percival Ellingford, a recent convert to Methodism
... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Haywood | Bibliographer Patrick Spedding
called EH
's translation close and accurate apart from a consistent heightening of style, stepping up the emotional voltage. qtd. in Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003. 162 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Davys | MD
makes skilful use of letters to project character, political issues, and gender interaction. Her use of significant dates (All Saints' Day, November the fifth) links her with the prophetic tradition of Lady Eleanor Douglas |
Literary responses | Charlotte Lennox | In Fielding's detailed comparison of the novel with Don Quixote, Lennox emerges superior to Cervantes
in morality, probability, and character-drawing, though Cervantes is superior in other ways. This enthusiastic review was widely reprinted. Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford, 1998. 176 |
Occupation | Gustave Doré | |
Textual Features | Frances Arabella Rowden | An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820) Rowden, Frances Arabella. A Biographical Sketch of the Most Distinguished Writers of Ancient and Modern Times. 1829. 1829, iv |
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