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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Susanna Haswell Rowson | This novel covers a historical span from Christopher Columbus
through scenes in New Hampshire in 1645 to the lives of the twin heroine and hero, descendants of Columbus, ten generations after him in Philadelphia in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria van Schurman | Having laid out her case, AMS
proceeds to summarise and refute that of her Adversaries. These she classifies as the utilitarian (who value learning purely for its cash or career value) and the envious... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Scott | MS
expands Duncombe's list of Female Geniuses. Scott, Mary, and Gae Holladay. The Female Advocate. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California. iii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sir Philip Sidney | His mother, Lady Mary Sidney
, was a duke's daughter and sister of two brothers who became earls (one of them, Robert Dudley
, the Earl of Leicester and the favourite of Queen Elizabeth
)... |
Textual Production | Germaine de Staël | GS
wrote a drama in verse, Sophie; ou, Les sentimens secrets; she followed this the next year with another verse play, Jane Gray, about the young English scholar and nine-days queen. Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg. 31, 118 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Tollet | ET
's various poems about marriage make all the usual points deployed by those writers who set themselves against the current legal drawbacks of marriage for women. She translated Latin epigrams attributed to two famous... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lady Mary Walker | The title character, Eliza de Crui, sets the tone for discussion by writing from Brussels to Mrs Pierpont at Liège with the remark that, since it is so hard to say anything new, she will... |
Textual Features | Susanna Watts | The many pictures in the volume include diagrams of the hold of a slave ship, I & Dash my Dog (a sketch), and prints of Hester Mulso Chapone
, Lady Rachel Russell
(with a copy... |
Literary Setting | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | The Eventful History of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk
, The Flower of English Chivalry, and the Princess Mary of England
: An Original Romance Founded on Historical Facts is a historical novel in miniature... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | Other poems in this volume include Lucy's Grave (a tale of a girl who was Three times an orphan Wolferstan, Elizabeth Pipe. The Enchanted Flute. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 79 |
Textual Production | Ellen Wood | EW
, then Ellen Price
, began writing in childhood with compositions that included poetic lives of Lady Jane Grey
and Catherine de Medici
. None of these early works survive. Voller, Jack. “The Ellen Wood (Mrs Henry Wood) Website”. The Literary Gothic: Wood, Ellen Price (Mrs. Henry). |
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