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Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Thicknesse | Richard Graves may have been disappointed, for the introduction and early lives are substantially the same as in the 1778 version which he had already read (though Hester Mulso Chapone
has been added to the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Lennox | Again Lennox gives her chapters titles which foretell their contents in the FieldingSarah Fielding
manner. Of the sister heroines, Harriot is beautiful and spoiled by her mother, a less forgiveable coquette than her namesake in Harriot... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothea Du Bois | After seven pages on grammar, she offers pattern letters: those in verse are in effect an anthology of epistolary poems by women, a patriotically generous selection of Irish writers (Mary Monck
, Mary Barber |
Intertextuality and Influence | Beatrix Potter | BP
deliberately situates some of her stories in long traditions. The eponymous hero and heroine in Two Bad Mice are named after Henry Fielding
's tiny prototype Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca in the mock-heroic... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Fielding | The Cry concerns itself with burning issues for women, particularly those of intellectual conformity and of vulnerability to slander. Its authors show off their huge reading both ancient and modern, and coin new words with... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rhoda Broughton | RB
's satire here embraces the publishing industry and its pandering to readers' tastes. Emma's cousin Lesbia is apparently representative of a particular type of circulating-library reader; much to Emma's mortification, she likes Miching Mallecho... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Alethea Lewis | Her first chapter explicitly addresses critics, and the authorial voice is often in dialogue with imagined readers—who are given a kind of life as typical young eligibles: the lovely Florinda and her favoured swain. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Edgeworth | Ormond, a young man seeking a role-model, turns at first to Fielding
's Tom Jones, but later and more laudably to Richardson
's Sir Charles Grandison. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Holford | Selima is a writing heroine: her poems are interspersed in the text, since as she says, As I grow sick or unhappy, I grow poetical. Holford, Margaret. Selima; or, The Village Tale. Hookham; P. Broster. 2: 73 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rachel Hunter | As its title implies, this novel sets out to flout fictional convention in its bourgeois attitudes and ineligible characters. For both preface and narrative RH
adopts the persona of the ugly Old Bachelor, Gilbert Grubthorpe... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Julia Young | The story opens with Frederic Duvalvin rushing to the aid of an aged peasant and his mule (though he ruins his clothes in doing so), while his cousin Lorenzo di Rozezzi refuses to help. (These... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Hutton | Jane Oakwood says (presumably standing in for her author, as she often does) that in youth she was accused of imitating Juliet, Lady Catesby (Frances Brooke
's translation from Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni
). Hutton, Catherine. Oakwood Hall. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 3: 95 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Haswell Rowson | As the title implies, the primary speaker and instructor is the father of the family, whose name, Mr Allworthy, comes from Henry Fielding
. The mother plays supporter to him. Both encourage the children to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sara Maitland | She points out that for all Brunton's highly moralistic intentions, Maitland, Sara, and Mary Brunton. “Introduction”. Self-Control, Pandora, p. ix - xi. ix |
Timeline
10 February 1749: Henry Fielding published Tom Jones, his comic...
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10 February 1749
Henry Fielding
published Tom Jones, his comic epicpoem in prose, in six volumes containing three books each. It reached a (revised) fourth edition by 11 December.
19 December 1751: Henry Fielding published his last novel,...
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19 December 1751
Henry Fielding
published his last novel, Amelia.
10 January 1752: Henry Fielding reported in his Covent Garden...
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10 January 1752
Henry Fielding
reported in his Covent Garden Journal (launched on 4 January) the case of a seventy-year-old woman allegedly raped by a young man with two female accomplices.
16 January-9 April 1752: Under the name of Madame Roxana Termagant,...
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16 January-9 April 1752
Under the name of Madame Roxana Termagant, Bonnell Thornton
issued thirteen weekly numbers of a periodical entitled Have at You All; or, The Drury Lane Journal.
24 January 1752: Henry Fielding's Covent Garden Journal reported...
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24 January 1752
Henry Fielding
's Covent Garden Journal reported the case of a sixteen-year-old girl decoyed into a brothel and kept there by force; he advocated reform of the prostitution laws which were proving the ruin of...
1 January 1753: According to her own story, Elizabeth Canning,...
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1 January 1753
According to her own story, Elizabeth Canning
, a maidservant, was abducted, after which she was imprisoned for days.
29 January 1753: Henry Fielding published A Proposal for making...
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29 January 1753
Henry Fielding
published A Proposal for making an Effectual Provision for the Poor, which he planned to do by establishing a county workhouse system.
1774: The British Novelist: Or, Virtue and Vice...
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1774
The British Novelist: Or, Virtue and Vice in Miniature was published in twelve volumes of abridged texts by Sarah
and Henry Fielding
, Richardson
, Smollett
, and Lennox
.
1792: Charles Cooke began publishing Select British...
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1792
Charles Cooke
began publishing Select British Novels, modelled on the earlier serial collection by James Harrison
.
September 1826: The conservative Quarterly Review, discussing...
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September 1826
The conservative Quarterly Review, discussing Sir Walter Scott
's Lives of the Novelists, omitted all mention of any female writer.
28 May 1959: The Mermaid Theatre, Puddle Dock, London,...
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28 May 1959
The Mermaid Theatre
, Puddle Dock, London, was opened by Bernard Miles
, with a performance of Lock Up Your Daughters (adapted from Rape Upon Rape by Henry Fielding
).
27 September 1968: The tribal love-rock musical Hair, a few...
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27 September 1968
The tribal love-rock musicalHair, a few months into its four-year run on Broadway, opened in London the day after censorship was ended by the Theatres Act.
14 July 2006: The Bow Street Magistrates Court, one of...
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14 July 2006
The Bow Street Magistrates Court
, one of London's most famous courts, closed after dispensing justice for 267 years.
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