Bigold, Melanie. “Elizabeth Rowe’s Fictional and Familiar Letters: Exemplarity, Enthusiasm, and the Production of Posthumous Meaning”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
29
, No. 1, 2006, pp. 1-14. 5
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Dedications | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Rowe had used the phrase Epistles from the Dead to the Living about her own letters not long after her husband's death. Bigold, Melanie. “Elizabeth Rowe’s Fictional and Familiar Letters: Exemplarity, Enthusiasm, and the Production of Posthumous Meaning”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 29 , No. 1, 2006, pp. 1-14. 5 |
Dedications | Mary Julia Young | The dedication to Mrs Trant
(presumably the same who also received a dedication from Charlotte Brooke
) mentions that she can boast of being allied toEdward Young
. In 2007 the reprint firm of... |
Education | Ann Yearsley | AY
's mother taught her to read, to think, and to question. Her brother taught her to write. Her family owned some books, notably Edward Young
's Night Thoughts, which she got to know almost by heart. Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996. 14 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Julia Young | MJY
claimed late in life to be the the only living relative of the respected poet and clergyman Edward Young
(1683-1765)—whose only child, Frederick Young
(1732-88), apparently never married. The poet, she says, was a... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Sheridan | In London they quickly acquired an influential and highly talented circle of friends, including Samuel Johnson
, Samuel Richardson
, Edward Young
, Frances Brooke
, Sarah Scott
, and Sarah Fielding
. Richardson admired... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare
, Milton
, Pope
, Thomson
, Goldsmith
, William Mason
, John Langhorne
, Burns
, Erasmus Darwin
, Edward Young |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs Ross | MR
's title is a complex literary allusion. The tragic heroine of Nicholas Rowe
's The Fair Penitent, 1703, tells her unwanted fiancé that their hearts were never paired above . . . joined... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Robinson | It is set in France, and voices anti-Catholic sentiments. The poetry quoted in it (by poets of the Graveyard School like Edward Young
, Thomas Gray
, and Edward Young
, as well as... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Radagunda Roberts | Albert. A Legendary Tale has its own illustrated title-page, and a quotation from Edward Young
as epigraph. Roberts, Radagunda. Albert, Edward and Laura, and The Hermit of Priestland: Three Legendary Tales. J. Dodsley, 1783. 9 Roberts, Radagunda. Albert, Edward and Laura, and The Hermit of Priestland: Three Legendary Tales. J. Dodsley, 1783. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Julia Young | The epigraph is a quotation from Edward Young
about merit in a low estate. This novel traces the tortuous path towards happy marriage of a young man (instead of a young woman) and presents relations... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Pym | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Gilding | Referring to her three dead children EG
writes of Death: Thrice his darts flew. qtd. in Pitcher, Edward W. “Eliza Gilding (Mrs. Daniel Turner): Some Facts and Inferences”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, Vol. 12 , No. 1, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 1999, pp. 6-22. 19 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs E. M. Foster | The novel parodies Germaine de Staël
's Corinne (which had appeared in French in 1807, in English in 1808). Chapters are supplied with epigraphs: some standard choices like Pope
and Cowper
, but also texts... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | The day was spent travelling from Glasgow to Inveraray. The writer throws in quotations and allusions (Edward Young
, the Bible, Macpherson
's Ossian and Homer
's Odyssey, Sterne
and Smollett |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Francis |