Xenophon

Standard Name: Xenophon

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Education Mary Somerville
The summer Mary was thirteen she lived at Jedburgh and there, from her Liberal uncle Thomas Somerville , found her first significant intellectual encouragement: for the first time in my life, I met ....
Publishing Sarah Fielding
SF published by subscription her last book, a translation of Xenophon 's Memoirs of Socrates , With the Defence of Socrates.
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Barrett Browning
For a young woman who had never attended university (as she of course could not at this time) to offer a translation from a classical language was both courageous and confident.
It was a long...
Textual Production Lady Caroline Lamb
She had been working on this novel at least since November 1821, when her husband was helping her with revision.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan.
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This time she used as a publisher her friend John Murray , who had...
Textual Production Margaret Emily Shore
Before her family took fright at her tuberculosis and moved to Madeira, the teenage MES was writing both poetry, some of which was published with her Journal, and short stories. In 1832 she...

Timeline

1794: Sophia, Lady Burrell (with a play and a poetry...

Women writers item

1794

Sophia, Lady Burrell (with a play and a poetry volume behind her, and further plays and a novel ahead), published her most unusual work, The Thymbriad, an epyllionbased onXenophon 's Cyropaedia.

1794: Sophia, Lady Burrell (with a play and a poetry...

Women writers item

1794

Sophia, Lady Burrell (with a play and a poetry volume behind her, and further plays and a novel ahead), published her most unusual work, The Thymbriad, an epyllionbased onXenophon 's Cyropaedia.

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