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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Performance of text | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The young MEB
's comedietta The Loves of Arcadia, set during the eighteenth century in the reign of the French king Louis XV
, opened at the Strand Theatre
in London. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 75 |
Literary Setting | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | The story is set in England and France in the reign of Louis XV
, and features his wife, Marie Leszcynska
, and his mistress, Madame de Pompadour
, as well as Bonnie Prince Charlie |
Literary Setting | Julia Kristeva | The clock in question is an astronomical one, which shows the phases of the moon and the movements of the planets, as well as telling the time; it is programmed to keep measuring all these... |
Textual Production | Marie Belloc Lowndes | Her subject, more usually known as Elizabeth Charlotte, married Philippe I, duc d'Orléans
, who was Regent of France during the minority of his nephew the future Louis XV
. MBL
's French relations were... |
Characters | Elizabeth Meeke | Midnight Weddings features the huge family (fifteen children) of a woman who married her country-squire employer, then re-married after his death. Edmund does well for himself in India, marries the cast-off companion of his... |
Literary responses | Nancy Mitford | Historian A. J. P. Taylor
wrote in the Manchester Guardian: All who admired The Pursuit of Love will be delighted to hear that its characters have appeared again, this time in fancy dress. They... |
Literary Setting | Georgina Munro | A debauched earl is the narrator of this novel, which, typically for the genre, is peopled by characters from the gentry and the upper classes. Athenæum. J. Lection. 744 (1842):110 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | JP
was judged successfully to have united romance with history in Louis, the Well-Beloved, 1959, her historical novel about Louis XV
and his wife, Marie Leszcynska
, Pearson, John. “Review of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Louis the Well-Beloved</span> by Jean Plaidy”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2991, p. 381. 381 |
Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | During the later phase of her career, DR
translated about five monographs from German and French into English; these texts were published between 1932 and 1934. They include The Dubarry [sic], a biography of... |
Performance of text | Christopher St John | CSJ
's play Du Barri (whose protagonist was well known as a mistress to Louis XV
) was first performed at the Savoy Theatre
, London. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 928 |
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