Helme, Elizabeth. Louisa. G. Kearsley.
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James Thomson
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Standard Name: Thomson, James,, 1700 - 1748
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Medora Gordon Byron | Alexander Pope
is quoted on the title-page (An Essay on Criticism), James Thomson
at the head of the first chapter, John Langhorne
for another chapter. The novel opens in the new style of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Helme | The title-page bears some lines from James Thomson
beginning Ye good distrest! / Ye noble few!, which assure the good that their earthly trials and sufferings will be brief. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Helme | Meanwhile in volume one, after the mother and daughter meet in ignorance of their relationship, they exchange somewhat similar histories of being orphaned (or supposedly orphaned), threatened with sexual violence, and undergoing actually violent emotional... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | She dedicated the volume to Jane, Duchess of Gordon
. Gordon was well known as a social and political mover. Her reputation included great beauty, quick repartee, excellent business sense, astute match-making, and also coarse... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Helme | The title-page bears an epigraph from James Thomson
, about the moral struggle of honour and aspiration against ease and luxury. It opens on an old-fashioned couple in their great Yorkshire house, Mr and Mrs... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Watts | The title-page quotes James Thomson
. The preface declares a serious, anxious, and most sincere desire to inculcate respect and tenderness towards all the inferior creatures. Watts, Susanna. The Insects in Council. Hurst, Chance; A. Cockshaw. prelims |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare
, Milton
, Pope
, Thomson
, Goldsmith
, William Mason
, John Langhorne
, Burns
, Erasmus Darwin
, Edward Young |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Hofland | The title-page quotes James Thomson
, and the preface acknowledges the influence of Maria Edgeworth
's The Modern Griselda, 1805. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 2: 366 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Frederick Clark | The title-page of the first volume quotes Mary Robinson
writing on the heart's sufferings, and that of the last volume quotes James Thomson
on the eventual reward for suffering of the noble few. The... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Hofland | The title-page quotes James Thomson
. Uncharacteristically, BH
offers meticulous description of landscape and works of art. |
| Friends, Associates | Martha Fowke | She formed close links with a group of male poets who held opposition political views: James Thomson
, Aaron Hill
(who was corresponding with her by June 1721), Richard Savage
(with whom she was exchanging... |
| Education | Georgiana Fullerton | She could read by four-and-a-half, and recalls an early admiration for hymns by Anna Letitia Barbauld
and Maria Edgeworth
. Julius Cæsar, the first Shakespearean
play that she saw, left a lasting impression. Later... |
| Education | Lady Louisa Stuart | LLS
grew up under her mother's eye, and was educated through both reading and social contact. She later remembered reading Henry Mackenzie
's The Man of Feeling at fourteen and fearing she might not cry... |
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