Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg, 1985.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Germaine de Staël | In Germany she was celebrated as the author of Delphine. She met with Schiller
, Goethe
, Henry Crabb Robinson
, and Schlegel
, whom she persuaded to tutor her three living children. Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg, 1985. 61-2 |
Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | On 11 May 1812 Henry Crabb Robinson
recorded in his diary meeting JB
and other women writers on a visit to Miss Benjers (Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
). In his account of this pleasant evening... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Brownell Jameson | The book is also a model of female erudition, peppered with foreign phrases, references to earlier Shakespeare critics, to the visual arts, and to other authors, including the ancient Greek dramatists and the German romanticists... |
Residence | Lucie Duff Gordon | In Bonn, LDG
's father
studied Roman Law under Niebuhr
and Schlegel
in preparation for his upcoming appointment as Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of London
. Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994. 35 Ross, Janet, and Lucie Duff Gordon. “Memoir”. Letters from Egypt, Virago, 1983, pp. 1 - 17. 1-2 |
Textual Production | Germaine de Staël | French censors read the page proofs and decreed that all traces of the work should be destroyed. Appeals to Napoleon proved futile, of course. However, GS
had the foresight to hide one set of proofs... |
Travel | Anna Brownell Jameson | Anna had previously travelled on the Continent with Sir Gerard Noel
and his daughter. Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997. xi |