Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Dionysius Lardner
Standard Name: Lardner, Dionysius
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Dion Boucicault | It is generally accepted that his actual father was not Samuel Boursiquot but the science-writer Dionysius Lardner
, after whom he was named and who supported him during his youth. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Muriel Box | One of Gardiner's great-grandfathers was the Victorian author Dionysius Lardner
, who extramaritally fathered Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot, better known as playwright Dion Boucicault
. His family had strong links with the theatre. Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin, 1974. 246ff Box, Muriel. Rebel Advocate. Victor Gollancz, 1983. 195, 201, 18ff |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Marcet | The influence of this book was far-reaching. John Lienhard traces it through works by J. L. Comstock
(himself an editor of Marcet, whose books shap[ed] America), and Dionysius Lardner
(who in turn influenced the... |
Literary responses | Sarah Austin | Editor Dionysius Lardner
had great confidence in [her] ability and zeal qtd. in Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press, 1985. 71 qtd. in Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press, 1985. 71 |
Publishing | Mary Shelley | MS
contributed anonymously to the first four numbers of the Monthly Chronicle, one of whose founders was Dionysius Lardner
. Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, 1999, pp. 413-24. 417 |
Textual Production | Mary Shelley | A new volume appeared in Dionysius Lardner
's Cabinet Cyclopædia of Biography, 1829-49: written by MS
, it was followed by further volumes from her pen. Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, 1997, pp. 9-45. 45 |
Timeline
3 March 1838: The first issue of The Monthly Chronicle:...
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3 March 1838
The first issue of The Monthly Chronicle: A National Journal of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art was published.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
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Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
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