Miguel de Cervantes

Standard Name: Cervantes, Miguel de

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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.
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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.
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Apart from the family library, a half-guinea annual subscription to the Ipswich Mechanics' Institution
Textual Production Dora Carrington
Carrington provided five illustrations for a school edition of Don Quixote by Cervantes , published by the Oxford University Press .
Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press.
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Textual Features Sara Coleridge
SC argues the merits of appreciating people, women in particular, for their moral worth and not for their physical beauty. She writes that by fostering our attention too exclusively on what is external, we overlook...
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
Occupation Gustave Doré
GD 's work was cosmopolitan. In addition to writers from other European countries like Dante and Cervantes , he illustrated Milton and Coleridge , and did a series of engravings of London for a work...
Textual Production Amelia B. Edwards
ABE 's earliest publications included A Summary of English History, From the Roman Conquest to the Present Time, 1856, and The History of France, from the Conquest of Gaul to the Peace of 1856...
Textual Production George Eliot
Many early extant letters of GE 's date from her unhappy, adolescent, Evangelical period, and have a tone of self-righteousness and censoriousness of others and of herself which is not pleasant to modern readers. In...
Education Elinor Glyn
Since she abhorred her governesses, Elinor took her education into her own hands, reading every book she could in the library: Pepys 's diary, Cervantes ' Don Quixote (an eighteenth-century French version), Scott , Agnes
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 ...
Textual Production Augusta Gregory
Knowing she had not long to live, AG published Three Last Plays, a volume which included The Would-Be Gentleman (adapted from Molière ), Sancho's Master (from Don Quixote by Cervantes ), and her last play, Dave.
Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum.
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Mikhail, Edward Halim. Lady Gregory: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. Whitston.
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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.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto.
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Aleksondra Hultquist , however, argued that Haywood's alterations to her source are...
Textual Production Barbara Hofland
BH published with LongmanTales of the Manor, with a quotation from Cervantes on the title-page.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press.
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Textual Production Christian Isobel Johnstone
This time she published as the author of Clan-Albin. Her title-page quotes a remark by Cervantes ' Sancho Panza about story-telling. This was the last novel that she published in volume form.
Textual Production Elizabeth Jolley
EJ invoked as an appropriate description of her own motivation, Flaubert 's dictum that writing comes from an inner wound.
Joussen, Ulla. “An Interview with Elizabeth Jolley”. Kunapipi, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 37-43.
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She said of Johnson 's Rasselas and Goethe 's Elective Affinities (both of which...

Timeline

7 October 1571: At the battle of Lepanto on the Gulf of Corinth,...

National or international item

7 October 1571

At the battle of Lepanto on the Gulf of Corinth, Turkish or Muslim sea power was crushed by Venetian and Spanish forces commanded by Don John of Austria .

16 January 1605: Miguel de Cervantes published at Madrid the...

Writing climate item

16 January 1605

Miguel de Cervantes published at Madrid the first part of his immensely influential mock-romanceDon Quixote; copies reached England by the summer.

1996: US punk writer Kathy Acker published Pussy,...

Writing climate item

1996

US punk writer Kathy Acker published Pussy, King of the Pirates, a feminist-pornographic reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson 's Treasure Island in which the treasure-seekers are a band of women pirates.

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