Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Ann Yearsley | AY
published Reflections on the Death of Louis XVI. Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press. 213 |
Textual Production | Helen Maria Williams | HMW
published her translation entitled The Political and Confidential Correspondence of Lewis the Sixteenth (correspondence which later turned out to be spurious). Her source was a forgery by François Babié de Bercenay
and Count Imbert de la Platière |
Textual Features | Helen Maria Williams | HMW
included in the earlier volume her correspondence with Stone while he was with the French revolutionary army fighting against the European monarchical powers. The second contains letters written after the execution of Louis XVI |
politics | Eglinton Wallace | She was, she wrote later, ignorant enough to flatter myself, that I was most materially serving my country, by making these proposals. She found, however, that the ministers were confident they knew better; Wallace, Eglinton. The Conduct of the King of Prussia and General Dumouriez. J. Debrett. 116 |
Textual Production | Una Troubridge | In 1935 US published her single Russian translation—of Under the Bolshevik Uniform by Vladimir A. Lazarevskii
, and the first two of her many translations from Italian, of Alfredo Segré
's Abram Lewis, Agent (... |
politics | Germaine de Staël | Habitués of her salon included Lafayette
, Condorcet
, Narbonne
, Talleyrand
, and Thomas Jefferson
. Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol. 4 , pp. 12-35. 21 |
Cultural formation | Germaine de Staël | She was born into the wealthy and powerful bourgeoisie and was just eight years old when Louis XVI
succeeded to the French throne. Her parents were both Swiss, but had settled in France. Owing to... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Smith | Without going back on her revolutionary principles, she urges that the refugees now streaming out of France, who include so many women and children, should be offered amnesty—no fatted calf, no return of their property... |
Publishing | Anna Seward | The month after Louis XVI
was guillotined, AS
expressed her outrage at the developing Terror in France with an impassioned letter printed in the Gentleman's Magazine, urging her friend Helen Maria Williams
to come home. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 200-1 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Carola Oman | Despite her obvious topical political agenda, CO
does not confuse her picture of Napoleon and his operations by any likeness to Hitler. She opens her history, like the biographer she was, with the guillotining of... |
Leisure and Society | Anna Margaretta Larpent | On 17 April 1790 AML
went to Mary Champion de Crespigny
's private theatre and saw a performance of Mariana Starke
's tragedy The British Orphans. She was at the theatre (a public one... |
Travel | Ellis Cornelia Knight | They first spent some time in Paris, where a highlight of their stay was a sight of Louis XVI
and Marie Antoinette
at the Palace of Versailles. Knight, Ellis Cornelia. The Autobiography of Miss Knight. Editor Fulford, Roger, William Kimber & Co. 37 |
Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | Wherever they went the Knights always met, and always admired, members of the relevant royal family. On a visit to the Palace of Versailles during their time in Paris, they were able to see Louis XVI |
politics | Ann Jebb | Her obituarist wrote that her zeal in the cause of civil and religious liberty was unabated by her husband's death. Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol. 7 , pp. 597 - 604, 661. 661 |
Textual Features | Ann Jebb | This pamphlet and Jebb's follow-up to it are both witty and down-to-earth. William Bull here tells his brother you know they talk of a war . . . of a war without fresh taxes; but... |
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