Callcott, Maria. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Cobbold | This volume includes Petrarchan sonnets, landscape description in blank verse, quatrain lyrics, personal poems, ballads, patriotic odes, a prose narrative, prologues, epilogues, and a poem on the death of Byron
. EC
's strengths are... |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Clive | Lady Byron
was another of the Clives' acquaintances. Following a visit in 1843, CC
wrote: That is the woman that has been tossed about by such vehement passions, by contact with such a fiery nature... |
Publishing | Mary Cowden Clarke | In her memoirs MCC
wrote that all my experience of publishers has been most agreeable. Contrary to the prejudiced opinion sometimes expressed, that authors and publishers are often antagonistic in their transactions, I have invariably... |
Education | Lydia Maria Child | At fifteen she read Paradise Lost (with her brother's encouragement) and was delighted with its grandeur and sublimity, but was bold enough to criticise Milton
for assert[ing] the superiority of his own sex in rather... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Georgiana Chatterton | She headed her chapters with quotations which draw on European as well as English literature: Petrarch
, Byron
, Germaine de Staël
.In its early stages the book may read like a courtship novel (full... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Welsh Carlyle | In her youth Jane Welsh composed verse translations from texts by Goethe
and Pierre Cardenal
, and of Chateaubriand
's Atala. She also wrote a number of original short poems; two of those that... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Callcott | MC
's title-page quotes Byron
and her preface declares her subject to be the independence struggle of the patriots of the New World. Callcott, Maria. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. prelims |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria Callcott | After her first return from Italy and again later in her life, Maria Graham (later MC
) did book reviews for the publisher John Murray
. She expressed her admiration for contemporary literature: Coleridge
,... |
Literary responses | Maria Callcott | Her adult poetry (still in manuscript) was regarded by her editor of 1975 as conventional, sapless, and over-influenced by the early Byron
. Lawrence, C. E., and Maria Callcott. “Lady Callcott and Her Book”. Little Arthur’s History of England, Century Edition, J. Murray, 1936, p. xiii - xx. xvii |
Birth | Augusta Ada Byron | AAB
, the only legitimate child of the poet Byron
and later a remarkable mathematician, was born at 13 Piccadilly Terrace, London. Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Ada Byron | In a rare gesture of interest in Byron
—the father she had never met—AAB
, Countess of Lovelace, visited his home, Newstead Abbey. Woolley, Benjamin. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron’s Daughter. Macmillan, 1999. 321 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Ada Byron | Ada's father, the poet Lord Byron
, is well known for his transgressive sexual behaviour of various kinds. His marriage to Lady Byron was shortlived: she left him twelve months after their wedding citing (and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Ada Byron | Some, including Lady Byron
, speculated that Medora was the child of Byron
and his half-sister Augusta Byron Leigh
. AAB
had already, in 1828, broken with Augusta over the issue of publishing Byron's letters... |
Reception | Augusta Ada Byron | The most famous literary response to Ada was penned by her father, Lord Byron
, in the opening lines to the Third Canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Is thy face like thy mother's, my... |
Textual Production | Medora Gordon Byron | The first publication by Miss Byron appeared in five volumes from the |
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