Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Marie-Antoinette Queen of France
Standard Name: Marie-Antoinette,, Queen of France
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton | The pamphlet takes the form of a letter to an unnamed man. Along with the particular example of her husband, it attacks the government of England: but how could this country be anything but the... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emmuska Baroness Orczy | In June 1918 EBO
's mother, who had been staying with her in England, began to be worn down by her status as enemy alien, and travelled back to Hungary. She was staying with a... |
| Friends, Associates | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana did not restrict herself to this circle. She made some eminent older friends in the world of literature and culture, like Mary Delany
, Elizabeth Montagu
, and Samuel Johnson
. From 1777 she... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach | EMA
goes into some detail about the French court and royal family from the time that she lived at Versailles, pausing too to do justice to the talents of Madame Genlis, if only in... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Honoré de Balzac | For many years HB
was romantically linked to Madame de Berny
, a god-daughter of Louis XVI
and Marie-Antionette
. He was devastated by her death in 1836. |
| Textual Features | Hélène Barcynska | The eponymous heroine of The Activities (officially named Lavinia but always called Lavie) is an American railroad heiress, whose father arranges for her to be introduced into English high society by Lady Loamington, who badly... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Chatterton | GC
was born at the home of a maternal aunt, Margaret Pitt
, wife of William Morton Pitt. A beautiful woman, Georgiana's aunt moved among the leading figures of her day. She spent time at... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Grace Elliott | GE
's relationship with the duc d'Orléans
is known to her readers only from her account of him in the days when he had moved on to other women and was increasingly showing a sympathy... |
| Occupation | Grace Elliott | Her biographers, indeed, wonder if she may have been a spy. She spoke to an agent of d'Orléans
in Brussels; on a later visit she carried a letter there for Marie-Antoinette
; she may perhaps... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Grace Elliott | GE
concentrates on her Revolution experiences; the rest of her life-story remains untold. Her work bears the marks of its birth as oral history. She presents the French Revolution in black and white moral terms... |
| politics | Grace Elliott | GE
(who by her own account seldom missed a historic occasion) was present when Marie-Antoinette
went to the theatre, the Comédie Italienne, with her two eldest children: her last public appearance before her execution. Elliott, Grace. Journal of My Life during the French Revolution. Rodale Press, 1955. 39-41 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Grace Elliott | Apart from the prince (who was named in registering the birth and alluded to in the little girl's baptismal names, Georgina Augusta Frederica), possible fathers included Charles Wyndham
(son of Lord Egremont), and Lord Cholmondeley |
| Textual Production | Antonia Fraser | AF
published her next historical biography, Marie Antoinette
: The Journey. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Foreman, Amanda. “Unfit for a queen”. Guardian Unlimited, 17 June 2001. Wroe, Nicholas. “The history woman”. The Guardian, 24 Aug. 2002, pp. 16-19. 19 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
| Textual Features | Rumer Godden | It is set in a Kashmir mountain village, where a young widow, Sophie, settles with her two children. Left short of money by her husband's death, she finds standard colonial life stultifying, feels that the... |
| Literary Setting | Catherine Gore | The queen in question is Marie Antoinette
; the action takes place before and during the French Revolution, at the Trianon of Versailles and at a chateau near Epernay in Champagne. Gore, Catherine. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore. Editor Franceschina, John, Garland, 1999. 159, 195 |
Timeline
30 May 1771: A letter to the Gazetteer attributed all...
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30 May 1771
A letter to the Gazetteer attributed all the faults of French absolutist government to the influence of madame Du Barry
(1746-93, mistress to the former monarch Louis XV) and to Marie Antoinette
.
Clark, Anna. “The Chevalier d’Eon and Wilkes: Masculinity and Politics in the Eighteenth Century”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 1, 1998, pp. 19-48. 31
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
under Du Barry
17 December 1779: It was disapprovingly noted what immense...
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17 December 1779
It was disapprovingly noted what immense sums of public money Marie-Antoinette
was paying to her personal friend the comtesse de Polignac
.
Roulston, Christine. “Separating the Inseparables: Female Friendship and its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century France”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 2, 1998–1989, pp. 215-31. 225 and n45
Around 1780: Large, broad-brimmed hats for women came...
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Around 1780
Large, broad-brimmed hats for women came into fashion, first in Paris, and then in London.
Campbell, Kimberly Chrisman. “Milliners in Eighteenth-Century Visual Culture”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
25
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2002, pp. 157-71. 159, 164
1 April 1789: Hester Lynch Piozzi (a propos reports about...
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1 April 1789
Hester Lynch Piozzi
(a propos reports about Marie Antoinette
) indignantly recorded what she presents as if it was her first encounter with lesbianism.
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin, 1973.
78
24 July 1789: Marie Antoinette wrote for her children's...
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24 July 1789
Marie Antoinette
wrote for her children's governess Instructions donnè à la marquise de Tourzel, which was later published among her letters.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
17: 710n2
5-6 October 1789: French market women marched on Versailles...
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5-6 October 1789
French market women marched on Versailles to demand that the king
put an end to bread shortages and relocate to Paris, closer to his people.
Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1975: Selected Documents Translated with Notes and Commentary. Translators Levy, Darline Gay et al., University of Illinois Press, 1979.
15, 62-3
Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
20-38, 50, 51, 54
1 November 1790: Edmund Burke published his Reflections on...
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1 November 1790
Edmund Burke
published his Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in certain Societies in London relative to that event.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
122-3
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
14: 306
20-25 June 1791: Louis XVI fled with Marie-Antoinette and...
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20-25 June 1791
Louis XVI
fled with Marie-Antoinette
and their family, intending to leave France and raise a counter-revolution; they were captured at Varennes near Vichy, and brought back to Paris.
Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
222-3
22 August 1791: Marie-Antoinette wrote to her friend the...
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22 August 1791
Marie-Antoinette
wrote to her friend the princesse de Lamballe
, persuading the princess to stay away from her for the sake of the safety of both of them.
Roulston, Christine. “Separating the Inseparables: Female Friendship and its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century France”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 2, 1998–1989, pp. 215-31. 226
September 1791: The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and...
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September 1791
The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizeness, dedicated to the Queen, by Olympe de Gouges
(formerly Marie Gouze), was published.
Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
65,75
Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution. Translator Streip, Katherine, University of California Press, 1998.
101
April 1792: The Marseillaise was composed in France as...
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April 1792
The Marseillaise was composed in France as a revolutionary song.
Sandock, Mollie. “’I Burn with Contempt for my Foes’: Jane Austen’s Music Collections and Women’s Lives in Regency England”. Persuasions, Vol.
23
, 2001, pp. 105-17. 115
3 September 1792: Marie-Antoinette's friend the princesse de...
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3 September 1792
Marie-Antoinette
's friend the princesse de Lamballe
was guillotined, and her death manipulated to torture the queen as well as herself.
Roulston, Christine. “Separating the Inseparables: Female Friendship and its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century France”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 2, 1998–1989, pp. 215-31. 226 and n49
16 October 1793: Marie-Antoinette was guillotined....
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16 October 1793
Marie-Antoinette
was guillotined.
Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
154
Hunt, Lynn. “The Many Bodies of Marie-Antoinette: Political Pornography and the Problem of the Feminine in the French Revolution”. The French Revolution in Social and Political Perspective, edited by Peter, 1949 - Jones, Arnold, 1996, pp. 268-84.
268-78
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