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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Ovid
Standard Name: Ovid
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Aphra Behn | |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 | Aphra Behn | This hilarious comedy is set in Rome, with a conspicuously stupid, lustful, and venial puritan
clergyman guyed as Tickletext, in transparent allusion to Titus Oates
and the Popish Plot. The three heroines all... |
| 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 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ali Smith | Smith's take on Iphis and Ianthe begins with sisters Anthea and Imogen listening to their grandfather's stories from when I was a girl in the women's suffrage movement: a sure induction into matters of gender... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Hatton | The title-page quotes Ovid
and the first chapter is headed by Byron
. The convoluted Italian plot of action and mystery opens with a vivid, modern-seeming summer scene suddenly intruded on by horror. The young... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Phillis Wheatley | PW
's poetry is technically adept; collected, it adapts the standard language of sentimentality and protest into a dignified and individual voice. She celebrates liberty of various kinds, praises the work of a black artist... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ali Smith | Autumn centres around the intergenerational friendship of 32-year-old art-history lecturer Elisabeth Demand and her childhood neighbour, the clever and lively Daniel Gluck, now 101 years old and quietly existing in a care home. Through silent... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Haywood |
Timeline
1495: In a bonfire of the vanities in Florence,...
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1495
In a bonfire of the vanities in Florence, Italy, Girolamo Savonarola
destroyed texts by Ovid
, Dante
, Boccaccio
and others.
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
319
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “Editorial Materials”. Casa Guidi Windows, edited by Julia Markus, Browning Institute, 1977, p. Various pages.
78
1555: French poet Louise Labé (c. 1520-1566), a...
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1555
French poet Louise Labé
(c. 1520-1566), a salonnière in the city of Lyons, daughter and wife of rope-makers, published her Oeuvres at Lyons.
Ehrengardt, Thibault. “Louise Labé, Head Corner Stone”. Rare Book Hub, Oct. 2015.
1567: George Turbervile published Heroycall Epistles...
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1567
George Turbervile
published Heroycall Epistles (London: Henry Denham), a translation of Ovid
's Heroides.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Lyne, Raphael. A Case for Isabella Whitney: Aeneas and Isabella Homepage. http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/aeneas/attrib.htm.
12 October 1597: Michael Drayton's England's Heroicall Epistles...
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12 October 1597
Michael Drayton
's England's Heroicall Epistles was entered in the Stationers' Register
; it appeared the same year.
Drayton, Michael. Minor Poems of Michael Drayton. Editor Brett, Cyril, Clarendon Press, 1907.
x
Arber, Edward, editor. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1660, A. D. Privately Printed, 1875–1894, 5 vols.
1680: John Dryden, with others, published a collaborative...
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1680
John Dryden
, with others, published a collaborative verse translation of Ovid
's Epistles (or Heroides).
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
Texts
Ovid,. Ovid’s Epistles. Translator Dryden, John, J. Tonson, 1680.
Ovid,. The Fable of Phaeton. Translator Wolferstan, Elizabeth Pipe, Nichol, 1828.