Barker, Mary Anne. Colonial Memories. Smith, Elder, 1904.
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Education | Mary Anne Barker | She attended school in England and had her French polished in Paris. Her interest in the island of Mauritius was first aroused by studying Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
's eighteenth-century novel Paul et Virginie. Barker, Mary Anne. Colonial Memories. Smith, Elder, 1904. 80 |
Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | On her return to Paris after Robespierre's death, HMW
and Stone lived in a house (where she held her salon) on the Quai Malaquais. After peace was announced between England and France in 1801... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Griffith | EG
's version of Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette
's The Princess of Cleves. An Historical Novel is available in the Chawton House Library
Novels On-line series at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. Her version of Aphra Behn
's Oroonoko,... |
Residence | Mary Anne Barker | She spent more than four years (including a period of home leave) on Mauritius. She had a long-standing interest in the island, first awoken by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
's Paul et Virginie and further... |
Textual Features | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | |
Textual Features | Isabella Neil Harwood | The play begins on the island of Palma (that is, the Spanish island of Mallorca—called by the English Majorca—whose capital is a town called Palma). The island in the original novel was Mauritius. In... |
Textual Production | Helen Maria Williams | HMW
dated the preface to Paul and Virginia, her translation of Paul et Virginie, the famous sentimental novel by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
. Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993. 56 |
Textual Production | Helen Maria Williams | Her remarkable though unsuccessful financial investment in the works of von Humboldt has been discussed by Nigel Leask
in Women, Writing and the Public Sphere, 1700-1830, edited by Elizabeth Eger
, Charlotte Grant
,... |
Textual Production | Isabella Neil Harwood | This three-act romantic drama is founded on the novel by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
which was titled in its English translation by Helen Maria WilliamsPaul and Virginia, June 1795. After the first act, though... |
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