Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley, 1852.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Ishmael is set in Brittany and Paris, mainly between 1850 and 1867, during the reign of Louis Napoleon
. The title character is the son of a Breton aristocrat, despised by his father on... |
Reception | Sappho | This drew on a female type established in the bohemian fiction of Honoré de Balzac
, Eugène Sue
, and others. Daudet's novel was the source of a play by |
Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | She dedicated this work to Henry Chorley
, without whose persuasion, she said, she would not have written it. Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley, 1852. prelims Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 116: 197 |
Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | The Wandering Jew, a play adapted by MW
from Eugène Sue
's long, unwieldy novel Le Juif errant (serialized in French from June 1844 to July 1845), was performed at the National Theatre
in London. Wandor, Michelene, and Mike Alfreds. The Wandering Jew. Methuen, 1987. 5, 6 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Fuller | In her review Miss Barrett
's Poems she praised the English poet's majesty and her poetic vision but noted also her lack of economy and the stiffness of her verse. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 59 |