Whitney, Isabella. A Sweet Nosegay, or Pleasant Posy. Editor Students of Sara Jayne Steen, An Academic Edition, Montana State University, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1995.
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Anthologization | Aphra Behn | |
Education | Melesina Trench | After the deaths of her parents Melesina Chenevix was committed to the care of a governess who had a determination to rule by rigour. . . . The fear and distaste I had for her... |
Education | Isabella Whitney | |
Education | Mary Eleanor Bowes Countess of Strathmore | As a girl, Mary Eleanor Bowes received an excellent education and could speak several languages, reading French and Italian authors in the original. It was said that she did not learn Latin, but also that... |
Education | Anna Kingsford | She was an avid reader from her youth up and enjoyed free access to her father's library. She devoured various translations from the classics—notably the Metamorphoses of Ovid
—and assimilated the contents of Lemprière
and... |
Education | Marie de France | MF was an effective user of both the English and Latin languages, though she wrote in French (that is, Old French). She also had some Breton. She was familiar with the Latin poet Ovid
as... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sappho | Interest in her sexuality was disseminated in Europe by Ovid
in his Heroides (or Heroines), a collection from the first century AD of fictional epistles, mostly from women (all of them except Sappho mythological)... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Matilda Betham | As well as meeting at Llangollen with Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
(who later talked with high praise of her), Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons, 1905. 69, 70 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Fyge | In Lady Campbell, with a Female Advocate, SF
calls her first published work fatal: Go, fatal book, she writes, Fyge, Sarah. Poems on Several Occasions. J. Nutt, 1703. 22 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Barker | JB
writes to one male friend (my Adopted Brother) on his approaching marriage, not to congratulate but to dissuade. Barker, Jane. Poetical Recreations. Benjamin Crayle, 1687. 11 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hélène Gingold | One of the stories, A Modern Orpheus, revisits the Greek myth related by Ovid
and others, with a man named Jones playing the Greek hero's Victorian counterpart. The Thracian poet and musician who attempted... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Natalie Clifford Barney | Rewriting Ovid
, NCB
attributes Sappho
's death to her love for Timas, a young female disciple, instead of Phaon. Causse, Michèle. Berthe ou un demi-siècle auprès de l’Amazone. Tierce, 1980. 249 Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. No Man’s Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century. Yale University Press, 1988. 2: 226 Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940. University of Texas Press, 1986. 291 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | This preface is headed by two Latin words (one with a faulty grammatical ending) from Ovid
's description of chaos. SG
slams both male and female novelists, chiefly authors of gothic or horrid novels and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Whitney | IW
's verse has dash and pace; her stanzas are jaunty despite the ungainly poulter's measure. In the persona of jilted woman she eschews either pathos or revenge; her tirades are not without humour. She... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | The plot owes something to Charlotte Lennox
's Female Quixote. The father of Green's heroine has lived through many crazes for novelists: first Burney
, then Radcliffe
, then Owenson
, then Rosa Matilda |