The book, with a great proliferation of minor characters and episodes, amounts to a treatise on the interweaving of gender, class, and education. The title-page quotes both Martial
and Horace Walpole
(who had been LMH
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth B. Lester
This title-page quotes from William Falconer
and the Latin poet Martial
. The novel opens on the usually flighty Philippa Egerton contemplating her imminent marriage to Sir Thomas Clervaux, whose chief talent is for dancing...
Publishing
Sarah Fielding
The title-page quotes, in Latin, the Roman satirist Martial
, in a context which asserts the realistic as well as the scholarly nature of the novel to follow.
Barchas, Janine. Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge University Press.
