O’Donnell, Mary Ann. Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Garland.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Occupation | Mary Astell | During the 1690s, long before her involvement with a charity school for poor girls, MA
apparently hoped to found a community of serious-minded, self-educating, middle-class, single women, of the kind she recommends in A Serious... |
Textual Production | Aphra Behn | In the month of AB
's death there appeared her Pindaric Poem to the Reverend Doctor Burnet
, on the Honour he did me of Enquiring after me and my Muse. O’Donnell, Mary Ann. Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Garland. 151-2 Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press. 428 |
Literary responses | Aphra Behn | Wharton's warm appreciation carried a hint of good advice to AB
: bid your Muse maintain a Vestal Fire. Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press. 262 |
Textual Production | Aphra Behn | After James II
had fled the country in 1688, AB
received a flattering invitation from Gilbert Burnet
(who in 1682 had tried to divide her from Anne Wharton
on moral grounds) to welcome the new... |
Fictionalization | Aphra Behn | AB
has been repeatedly fictionalised in recent years. Ross Laidlaw
published in 1992 a fiction, Aphra Behn—Dispatch'd from Athole, which added a coda to her life. In his story Gilbert Burnet
enlists her to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Burnet | Elizabeth Berkeley
became the third wife of Gilbert Burnet
, Scottish scholar, politician, historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. She was thirty-nine, he fifty-seven. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Burnet | EB
's friendship with Sarah Churchill, later Duchess of Marlborough
(like that with her future husband, Gilbert Burnet
, and his second wife, Mary
), dated back to the years when they were all in... |
death | Elizabeth Burnet | She was buried with her first husband
, because of a promise made long before her death. Gilbert Burnet
died on 17 March 1715. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Gilbert Burnet |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Burnet | EB
began writing a volume of Meditations not long after she had married Gilbert Burnet
as her second husband. This survives among her papers in the Bodleian Library, bound in MS Rawlinson D 1092. Burnet, Elizabeth. “journals and papers”. Bodleian Library, MS Rawl. D. 1092, folios 111203. |
Publishing | Elizabeth Burnet | On her death the same leading publishing house at once re-issued the book in a second edition, with her name, a frontispiece featuring her portrait (engraved by M. Vandergucht
after Kneller
), and a memoir... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Burnet | Her husband Gilbert Burnet
called EBone of the most extraordinary persons that has lived in this age. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Gilbert Burnet |
Textual Production | Mary Caesar | MC
told Mary Barber
that she would have liked to write the history of her own times (no doubt, says Rumbold, in opposition to the publication of that title by the Whig Gilbert Burnet
). Rumbold, Valerie. “The Jacobite vision of Mary Caesar”. Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740, edited by Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman, Batsford, pp. 178-98. 196 |
Cultural formation | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Her mother was of Welsh and her father of English descent. There was no basis for the family belief that the distinguished seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish churchman Gilbert Burnet
was an ancestor. Spurling, Hilary. Ivy When Young. Victor Gollancz. 15-17, 35 |
Education | Anne Grant | Nevertheless she writes that at about eight she was quite uneducated, except reading and plain-work. Grant, Anne. Memoirs of an American Lady. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. 2: 144 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Grant | Her range of curiosity of wide. Of orthodox Jews she writes, Is not priestcraft the same in all climes, in all ages, in all forms of worship? Grant, Elizabeth. The Highland Lady in Ireland. Editors Pelly, Patricia and Andrew Tod, Canongate. 96 |