Iremonger, Lucille. The Young Traveller in the West Indies. Phoenix House, 1955.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | On 15 January 1838 HM
was inspired by an article on Haiti in the Quarterly Review: it flashed across me that my novel must be on the Haytian Revolution and Toussaint [L'Ouverture]
my hero... |
Literary Setting | F. Tennyson Jesse | The heroine of this novel operates in male disguise in the exotic world of sea-rovers. The action involves the bloody rebellion of 1802 on San Domingo (now Haiti) when Napoleon
sent military force in an... |
Textual Features | Lucille Iremonger | In Haiti the visitors are shown round by Monsieur Bobot, a tall, imposing Negro of middle age Iremonger, Lucille. The Young Traveller in the West Indies. Phoenix House, 1955. 60 |
Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | HM
's second novel, The Hour and the Man, A Historical Romance, about Toussaint L'Ouverture
and the Haitian revolution, was published by Edward Moxon
. Webb, Robert Kiefer. Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian. Columbia University Press, 1960. 192 Athenæum. J. Lection. 684 (1839): 958 |
Textual Production | Anna Jane Vardill | William Franklin, a natural son of Benjamin Franklin, was a friend of AJV
's father. Axon, William E. A., and Ernest Hartley Coleridge. “Anna Jane Vardill Niven, the Authoress of ’Christobell,’ the Sequel to Coleridge’s ’Christabel.’ With a Bibliography. With an Additional Note on ’Christabel’”. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol. 2nd series 28 , 1970, pp. 57-88. 72 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lydia Maria Child | She composed it largely of biographies of black people: Toussaint L'Ouverture
, Frederick Douglass
, and (more briefly) Phillis Wheatley
. Clifford, Deborah Pickman. Crusader for Freedom. Beacon Press, 1992. 272 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | E. Arnot Robertson | The background to this dense, richly-packed book includes a number of defining political events: the career of Toussaint L'Ouverture
(discovered by Douglas through studying Wordsworth
at school), the Irish Civil War; the trial of Sacco |
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