Stevens, Anne. “Tales of Other Times: A Survey of British Historical Fiction, 1770-1812”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
7
, Dec. 2001. King Edward III
Standard Name: Edward III, King
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary Setting | Elizabeth Strutt | ES
balances her story of love and adventure with the depiction of everyday life in a Scottish castle, including food, clothing, pastimes, heraldry, and chivalric tournaments, |
| Publishing | Lucy Toulmin Smith | LTS
seems to have been an infrequent contributor to periodicals. In January 1892 she published a paper in the English Historical Review entitled English Popular Preaching in the Fourteenth Century. In the article she... |
| Textual Features | Radagunda Roberts | Albert. A Legendary Tale has its own illustrated title-page, and a quotation from Edward Young
as epigraph. Roberts, Radagunda. Albert, Edward and Laura, and The Hermit of Priestland: Three Legendary Tales. J. Dodsley, 1783. 9 Roberts, Radagunda. Albert, Edward and Laura, and The Hermit of Priestland: Three Legendary Tales. J. Dodsley, 1783. |
| Textual Features | Anne Grant | In a passage that deploys all her own high rhetorical ability she seeks to prove that women's ability is normally inferior to men's. Wollstonecraft's book, which is so run after here, that there is no... |
| Textual Features | Ann Yearsley | The topic of this tragedy—the political resistance of Godwin
and his family against the supposedly effete, priest-ridden, and Frenchified government of Edward the Confessor
, Waldron, Mary. “A Different Kind of Patronage: Ann Yearsley’s Later Friends”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol. 13 , AMS Press, 2002, pp. 283-35. 318 Godwin, father of... |
| Textual Features | Jane West | JW
's preface invokes Shakespeare
, Virgil
, Homer
, and Sir Walter Scott
(she later adds Thomas Percy
) as more acceptable exemplars for romance than either the French romances (implicitly those of Madeleine de Scudéry |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | In this extremely well-populated series, this first Plantagenet led a long procession. Its followers were two novels in 1977, The Revolt of the Eaglets, and The Heart of the Lion (about Richard Coeur de Lion |
| Textual Production | Grace Aguilar | By 1833 she had also finished the two books which were eventually published in 1908 as Tales from British History, individually titled Macintosh, the Highland Chief, a Tale of the Civil War, and... |
Timeline
18 January 1341: Queen's College, Oxford, was founded; it...
Building item
18 January 1341
Queen's College
, Oxford, was founded; it was originally named Quene Hall.
Rashdall, Hastings. Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages. Editors Powicke, Sir Frederick Maurice and Alfred Brotherston Emden, Clarendon, 1987, 3 vols.
III: 207
Hodgkin, Robert Howard. Six Centuries of an Oxford College: A History of the Queen’s College, 1340-1940. Blackwell, 1949.
v
The founding date is also given as 18 January 1340, according to Old Style, which continued the old year until 25 March.
17 July 1917: George V informed the Privy Council that...
Building item
17 July 1917
George V
informed the Privy Council
that the royal family (all his subjects descended from Queen Victoria) would take the surname of Windsor.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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