Oliver Goldsmith

Her mother began teaching her out of Goldsmith 's History of England (1764), started Elizabeth on the piano before she was five, and engaged a Swiss woman to teach her French, but found both her...

She heads her novel with a prefatory letter to the Rev. William Johnstone , who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities...

The favourable review in the Literary Magazine (with which Johnson was closely connected) probably owed something to his influence.Oliver Goldsmith , reviewing Lennox's work for the Monthly Review in July 1757, makes...

CL had probably begun this play immediately after the appearance of her novel Henrietta, 1759, which it reworks. Indeed, the play bore the same title as the novel when it was seen in manuscript...

During her childhood, ECK associated with a variety of celebrated people through her family connections. Her mother was a close friend of painter and writer Frances Reynolds (sister to the more famous painter Sir Joshua Reynolds

She stoutly rejects Goldsmith 's assertion that a woman who has stooped to folly can only die: I did not, however, feel inclined to die when I could no longer conceal what the world falsely...

In contrast to the life-writings of her working-class contemporary Hannah Cullwick , EJ 's autobiography is remarkably self-reflexive and literary. She says that an account of her life in Dundee alone, her trials, disappointments, joys...

Johnson had a talent for friendship which he kept well exercised: the names mentioned here represent only a selection of his friendships. His early London friends, whom he met during a comparatively poorly documented period...

Chapters are headed with a lavish array of quotations. Among the better-known authors are Ariosto (in the original), Shakespeare , Drayton , Milton , Pope (on the title-page), Young , Gray , Collins , Johnson

Visitors to her parents' house included Oliver Goldsmith and Samuel Johnson , whom the Hawkins children nicknamed Polyphemus, after the one-eyed giant in the Odyssey. After Johnson's death, John Hawkins was...

JH 's preface discusses the moral and artistic duties of the writer; she assumes that this person is male until she reaches the diffidence and timidity which in the bosom of a female writer is...

Besides a splendid frontispiece portrait of EG in the first edition, with her published works around her, the book was further illustrated with plates originating in the magazine. The other contributors were Oliver Goldsmith (who...

The title-page quotes Byron pronouncing shame to the land of the Gaul. A preface combats the general prejudice against a single volume by citing works of fiction which are short but widely admired...

Like her, he was a contributor to magazines: a juvenile work by him appeared in the Lady's Magazine in 1775, and he later contributed to the European and other magazines under the name of Fidelio...

PG issued a third novel this same year, The Fruitless Repentance; or, The History of Miss Kitty Le Fever (reprinted in facsimile by Garland in 1974). She told the Royal Literary Fund that...