Voltaire

She waxed satirical to Elizabeth Vesey about the two poems entered for the Academy's prize, and especially about the reading of Voltaire 's paper against Shakespeare (whose plays, recently translated into French, he thought capable...

The first letter is entitled On the Principles of Religion; HMC assures her niece that she is one of your warmest friends. She cautions about choice of friends and even more about choice of...

Her book covers the years 1733-1749, that is, the period of Voltaire 's involvement with Emilie du Châtelet , up to the latter's death following childbirth. It uses then-unpublished letters. It has been variously assessed...

The contemporary story features a self-educated working-class intellectual and freethinker whose characterisation draws on many strands of thought of the day. Drawn after the model of self-made men such as Daniel Macmillan , William Lovett

The month after this success DC was planning to adapt another tragedy by Voltaire (Sémiramis, 1746) and asked Garrick if it had ever been translated into English. But it seems that she never...

An anonymous translation from Voltaire , The Age of Lewis XIV, published by Dodsley , has been thought to be by CL ; her biographer Susan Carlile denies this.

The first volume has a frontispiece (two women meeting a man in armour) and the title-page quotes some lines about the insecurity of a throne won through ambition. These are ascribed to Fielding 's Merope...

SA 's next known literary translation was Voltaire 's History of Charles XII, of which her version appeared in 1827. Of this she said I got neither money nor renown for it ....

Voltaire : A Biographical Fantasy, a long poem by Laura Gottschalk (later LR ), was published by the Hogarth Press .

The title-page specifies several of Du Deffand's correspondents, including Montesquieu and Germaine de Staël . Voltaire 's letters to Du Deffand receive special billing. Meeke presumably also provided the translations of The French Booksellers' Address...

NM published Voltaire in Love, another of her biographical studies.

In a counterblast to Voltaire , EM published, anonymously, An Essay on Shakespear.

MJY reported to the Royal Literary Fund that she had selected and translated a collection of extracts from works by Voltaire : Voltairiana, 1805, in four volumes.

EG and her husband both contributed translations to Voltaire 's works in English, issued by William Kenrick in these years.

Her full title is An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear, compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets, With some Remarks Upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. de Voltaire. She spelled...