Knight, Ellis Cornelia. The Autobiography of Miss Knight. Editor Fulford, Roger, William Kimber & Co.
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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 |
Travel | Frances Burney | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Holford | Selima is a writing heroine: her poems are interspersed in the text, since as she says, As I grow sick or unhappy, I grow poetical. Holford, Margaret. Selima; or, The Village Tale. Hookham; P. Broster. 2: 73 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ann Jebb | In 1789 and 1790, still in correspondence with Cartwright and also in letters to Thomas Brand Hollis
, she discussed the issues involved in the Regency in Britain and the agreement between Louis XVI
and... |
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... |
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 | 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 (... |
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 |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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 |
politics | Grace Elliott | She smuggled the duc d'Orléans to his house by giving her name instead of his to those who challenged them. She went home on foot, then, hearing that many thought the duc would lead a... |
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