Sade, Jacques François Paul Aldonce de. The Life of Petrarch. Translator Dobson, Susannah, James Buckland, 1775.
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Cultural formation | Christina Rossetti | She came of fully Italian blood on her father's side, and half-Italian, half-English on her mother's. In a piece on Petrarch
, she claimed that family documents proved her descent from his muse, Laura... |
Dedications | Susannah Dobson | SD
dated the dedication of The Life of Petrarch to Soame Jenyns
; the book was published the same year. Sade, Jacques François Paul Aldonce de. The Life of Petrarch. Translator Dobson, Susannah, James Buckland, 1775. prelims |
Dedications | Susannah Dobson | SD
dated the dedication of her translation Petrarch
's View of Human Life to Andrew Stuart
; the book was published in 1791. Petrarch,. Petrarch’s View of Human Life. Translator Dobson, Susannah, J. Stockdale, 1791. prelims |
Education | Edmund Spenser | ES
attended Merchant Taylors' School
(which had been founded in 1561). His first publication (translations from Petrarch
and Du Bellay
) appeared in print (with another translation) before he entered university. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Mary Walker | Foscolo read Petrarch
and Sterne
together with Hamilton's daughter Sophia. Then he seduced her, and went back to Italy leaving her pregnant. The baby was called Mary after her grandmother, and stayed with Lady Mary... |
Friends, Associates | Giovanni Boccaccio | He became a close friend of his fellow-poet Petrarch
in 1350, and remained so for the rest of Petrarch's life. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Sixth edition, Oxford University Press, 2000. “The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Bannerman | Her model for the sonnet, as well as for the use of male erotic voices from Petrarch
and Goethe
, was Charlotte Smith
, though AB
's tone is more unrestrained and impassioned than Smith's. Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999. 135-6 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Bannerman | The contents included odes, sonnets (including one sequence from Petrarch
and another based on Goethe
's Werther, in which she speaks as the male lover of a woman, with notes relating her poems to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christopher St John | This thinly disguised autobiographical fiction (both roman à clef and bildungsroman) depicts a lesbian or invert relationship at a time when public attention to unorthodox sexual relationships (following such attention by sexologists), was on the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | L. E. L. | LEL recalled devising poetry during her early childhood in East Barnet, where she moved at the age of seven: I cannot remember the time when composition in some shape or other was not a... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Shorter pieces here include many sonnets, the most striking and complex of which are perhaps the two dedicated to George Sand
that explore the apparent contradictions of gender and genius. To George Sand. A Desire... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Selina Davenport | The title-page quotes Milton
on the false dissembler (Satan). The story opens with Edmund Dudley, the lover and the poet, confiding to a married friend, Leopold Courtenay, his love for Althea, to whom he has... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Smith | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | The story opens in the year 1605 in a cottage near the Jura Mountains. Later scenes set in Salzburg convinced Devendra P. Varma
that Sleath was personally acquainted with that city. Varma, Devendra P., and Eliza Parsons. “Introduction”. Castle of Wolfenbach, Folio Press, 1968, p. xiii - xxiv. xix |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Burke | The letters are unaffected and moral, but tend to look favourably on suicide. The first, from Eleanora, is dated 19 May 1770. She writes to Maria of her growing love for Werter, who seems to... |