Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Louisa Stuart | Despite family discouragement of her literary interests, with reference to the awful example of her grandmother (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
), LLS
, at the age of nine, had plans for writing full-length works... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mariana Starke | The play's central theme was suttee or sati, the practice of burning a widow at her husband's death. The playbill advertised a Procession representing the Ceremonies attending the Sacrifice of an Indian Woman on the... |
Literary responses | Susan Smythies | The Monthly Review was not impressed: it thought the book hastily written, thin, and uninteresting. Griffiths, Ralph, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths. 9 (1753): 394 Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press. 3: 89 |
Textual Features | Catherine Sinclair | In Lady Mary Pierrepoint the title character is a Protestant whose virago widowed mother-in-law (Lady Pierrepont) intends to disinherit her son Sir Cosmo (Mary's husband) and leave her lands to the Roman Catholic Church
... |
Textual Features | Anna Seward | The series (completed in 1791) developed from AS
's strictures on John Weston
's contributions to a book entitled Records of the Woodmen of Arden. She compared Dryden
with Pope
to the advantage of... |
Textual Features | Anna Seward | The sonnets are written in strict Milton
ic form. One of their favourite themes is love of nature and the countryside; one or two deal with Seward's love for Honora Sneyd
. In rendering Horace... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Seward | AS
's correspondence often deals with literary matters as well as with social matters and personalities. She writes with astonishing freedom to Hester Piozzi
about the latter's travel book Observations and Reflections: not only... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Marie de Sévigné | These letters have been immensely popular since their first publication, in France, England, and elsewhere. Numerous male critics have written of their almost personal love for MS
. One of those impervious to her charm... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Madeleine de Scudéry | As a consequence of this work's success, MS
became popularly known as Sappho or the modern Sappho, particularly in connection with her salon. McDougall, Dorothy. Madeleine de Scudéry. Benjamin Blom. vii, 89, 224, 226 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Madeleine de Scudéry | Aphra Behn
took from the Carte de tendre some of the topographical imagery of her verse-and-prose romance A Voyage to the Island of Love (which in turn was the model behind The Adventurer, written... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Scott | Lady Barbara was a daughter of the rake and gambler George Montagu, Earl of Halifax
(and therefore a cousin of SS
's brother-in-law Edward Montagu and of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
's husband). On Halifax's... |
Literary responses | Sarah Scott | The Monthly Review thought that this novel, though stiff and formal, was promising; that it was influenced by Marivaux
' Marianne;and that it was written by a man. Griffiths, Ralph, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths. 3 (May 1750): 59-61 |
Literary responses | Anna Maria van Schurman | This work became fairly well-known among Englishwomen interested in the issue of education for their sex. Her correspondence with Bathsua Makin
ensured that the influence of AMS
in England was practical as well as theoretical.... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sappho | Sappho
's name was an honorific for women writers for generations. George Puttenham
may have been the first to use it to compliment a writing woman: in Parthienades, 1579, he said that Queen Elizabeth |
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