She visited Ostend, Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, and the battlefield of Waterloo. She also visited Charlemagne
's cathedral at Aiz-la-Chapelle or Aachen, as well as the Rhine and surrounding region...
Textual Features
Katharine Tynan
These fictions tend to juggle stock elements. The House of the Crickets explores the parental tyranny said to be characteristic of rural Irish family life.
Tynan, Katharine. The Wandering Years. Constable.
246
Betty Carew, March 1910, presents a [w]holesome love...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Anna Jane Vardill
Vardill continued to write for public occasions: on the death of Princess Charlotte
(The Bride's Dirge, December 1817) and on those of George III
and the Duke of Kent
(The Eldest King...
Family and Intimate relationships
Queen Victoria
QV
's father, Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent
, was a son of domestic and high-minded parents, George III
and Queen Charlotte
, but since their day the House of Hanover had become renowned for...
Textual Production
Ann Yearsley
Bristol Public Library
's copy of AY
's Poems, on Several Occasions, first edition, incorporates a dozen manuscript poems, including To The King
: On His Majesty's arrival at Cheltenham 1788.
Ferguson, Moira. “The Unpublished Poems of Ann Yearsley”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
12
, No. 1, pp. 13-46.
13-14
Textual Features
Mary Julia Young
The title-page quotes Le Sage
, in French, avowing that he intended to depict people as they are, but not real individuals (a quotation that might work in reverse, encouraging readers to expect recognisable portraits)...