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Isaac D'Israeli
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Standard Name: D'Israeli, Isaac
Used Form: Isaac Disraeli
Connections
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Dedications | Elizabeth Strutt | ES
dedicated to Isaac D'Israeli
(as an advocate for the poor and meritorious) her Triumphs of Genius and Perseverance; exemplified in the Histories of Persons risen from poverty to eminence in the Arts and Sciences. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Benjamin Disraeli | His father, Isaac D'Israeli or Disraeli
, was a historical and literary antiquarian whose writings helped to shape the opinions of later generations about seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British culture. |
Friends, Associates | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | From 1832, when she began writing and editing in earnest, she entertained such figures as Benjamin Robert Haydon
, Isaac D'Israeli
, Edward Bulwer-Lytton
, and Byron's former mistress the Countess Guiccioli
(who visited England... |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Clive | She was capable of equally strong feeling in other contexts, such as her passionate desire for success as a poet. Having written about this ambition to the literary historian Isaac D'Israeli
and the philosopher Dugald Stewart |
Friends, Associates | Gertrude Stein | |
Friends, Associates | Eleanor Anne Porden | EAP
met Mary Russell Mitford
in summer 1822 at the London house of Mrs Vardill: presumably the mother of the Romantic poet Anna Jane Vardill
. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett, 1882, 2 vols. 1: 121 |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Gore | CG
was acquainted with a number of important literary figures. Before leaving London for the Continent she attended an assembly given by Rosina Bulwer-Lytton
to which Disraeli
, Lady Morgan
, and Letitia Landon
also... |
politics | Catharine Macaulay | A story printed in the Gentleman's Magazine in her lifetime, and repeated in print by Isaac D'Israeli
after her death, said that she was excluded from the Museum for damaging books (or alternatively for removing... |
Publishing | Caroline Clive | Even before her first publication the future CC
had sent specimens of her poetry, under the name of George Ferrol or P. Ferrol, to literary men and potential patrons. But Isaac D'Israeli
, Dugald Stewart |
Publishing | Helena Wells | It was issued by Cadell and Davies
, with title-page reference to The Step-Mother and a quotation from Akenside
on virtue as a source of happiness. HW
's preface, composed while living in Westminster... |
Reception | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | This book sparked both sensation and controversy. It was the starting point for Blessington's friendships with Isaac D'Israeli
and Edward Bulwer-Lytton
. Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997. 149 |
Textual Features | Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton | The essays include Samuel Pepys
and Francis Bacon
, Lord Verulam
and Viscount St. Albans, A Curiosity of Literature not Mentioned by Isaac Disraeli and Servants. Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness. Shells from the Sands of Time. Bickers and Son, 1876, http://U of Toronto. title-page |
Textual Production | Caroline Clive | In 1823 and 1827 respectively, CC
approached the literary historian Isaac D'Israeli
and the philosopher Dugald Stewart
about her burning desire to be a poet. D'Israeli (to whom she had used a masculine pseudonym) replied... |
Textual Production | Eleanor Anne Porden | The preface to this work apologizes for not apologizing: The greatness of an enterprize, while it increases the diffidence of an Author, almost destroys the right of apology. If . . . I have ventured... |
Timeline
1791: Isaac D'Israeli published the first volume...
Writing climate item
1791
Isaac D'Israeli
published the first volume of his Curiosities of Literature, a collection of information and anecdote; volume two followed in 1793, then four more.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
1797: William Taylor wrote the first recorded instance...
National or international item
1797
William Taylor
wrote the first recorded instance of the word autobiography (in a Monthly Review notice of Isaac D'Israeli
's Miscellanies).
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
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Oxford English Dictionary Online. http://dictionary.oed.com/.
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