Wilson, Harriette. Clara Gazul. J. J. Stockdale, 1830, 3 vols.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Harriette Wilson | Later, at school in London, she says she again learned nothing. Wilson, Harriette. Clara Gazul. J. J. Stockdale, 1830, 3 vols. introduction |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Stockdale | MS
's brother John Joseph Stockdale
, son and nephew of publishers, set up his own publishing firm in the West End of London, at 41 Pall Mall. Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003. 187 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Stockdale | Both of Mary's brothers, John Joseph
and William
, also went into publishing. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under John Stockdale |
Intertextuality and Influence | Grace Aguilar | One of her source texts was John Stockdale
's The History of the Inquisition, which like other English books on the topic was more concerned to demonstrate the dangers of Catholicism than the plight... |
Publishing | Harriette Wilson | In about 1822 HW
composed a work she called Sketches in the Round Room at the Opera House (a kind of dry run for her Memoirs), which depicts her former lovers under disguised names:... |
Publishing | Harriette Wilson | The most important difference between the Memoirs of Harriette Wilson and their predecessors, the Sketches, was that the Memoirs were to give names in full. The contract between HW
and Stockdale
stipulated that he... |
Publishing | Harriette Wilson | A question-mark hangs over HW
's entire authorship of the Memoirs (and of her later publications). In her preface to Clara Gazul she herself says that much in the Memoirs is not authentic, but was... |
Publishing | Harriette Wilson | She said she wrote it in eight days. Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003. 238 |
Publishing | Harriette Wilson | HW
began, with the first instalment, to issue her Memoirs through John Joseph Stockdale
: four volumes followed the more numerous, briefer instalments. Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003. 198 |
Publishing | Harriette Wilson | HW
(or her publisher Stockdale
) expanded her Memoirs into an 8-volume edition, with new material by herself and others, and an index. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Reception | Harriette Wilson | The Memoirs immediately produced extraordinary sensations in fashionable life, qtd. in Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003. 199 |
Reception | Mary Stockdale | About this time MS
's brother
printed derogatory comments about her, which did not spare her writing. |
Textual Features | Mary Stockdale | The autobiography is uninformative and self-approving. A patriotic poem on the king's Jubilee celebrates England as a land of happy peasants, as against the whole countries deluged with the blood of man elsewhere in Europe... |
Textual Production | Percy Bysshe Shelley | His second work of fiction, St Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance (published by John Joseph Stockdale
, brother of the poet and miscellaneous writer Mary Stockdale
), presumably appeared in print before 25 March... |
Textual Production | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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