Voltaire

On her first visit to Paris, she met Germaine de Staël , and formed lasting friendships with the marquise de Villette (Voltaire 's adopted daughter) and with Elizabeth Patterson (an American heiress, the abandoned...

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 ....

Critics Arthur Calder Mashall and Lenemaja Friedman have both noted the probable influence of Voltaire on this novel. Its main characters are an eccentric Brazilian, Countess Flor di Folio (modelled on Baroness Catherine d'Erlanger

This novel is heavy-handedly moralistic. The heroine, Miriam Harcott, is the child of an atheistical philosopher (converted in the end by a good—not Methodist—clergyman) and a careless mother who causes the deaths of three of...

During the same year Eugene Jolas published in the June number of transition Beckett's short story entitled Assumption, and on 14 November the Trinity College, Dublin , student newspaper, A College Miscellany, published...

MB had begun to read these letters, found among Walpole's papers, in autumn 1807. She was still working on her preface in April 1810. Longman paid her two hundred pounds for her editorial work.

Robert Lee Wolff argues that this is one of MEB 's very best Wilkie Collins -style investigations. As in much of MEB 's other fiction in this style, the reader can easily and...

This second novel, prefaced by a long quotation from Voltaire , opens in the reign of Peter the Great and takes place in Russia. The hero is Ferdinand Beleski, who at the end marries...

Highly positive reviews included one from Voltaire in France suggesting that this was the finest epistolary novel to appear in English during the decade or so since the last work of Richardson . The Critical...

The title-piece is the last and longest in the volume. It belongs to the once-popular genre of dialogues of the dead. Its characters are Voltaire (who had been used this way several times before), Gibbon

But by the end of his first visit, Jane Welsh agreed to allow Carlyle to supervise her reading, and on his departure he provided her with a list of books by authors including Tasso ,...

DC 's Almide, an adaptation of Tancrede by Voltaire , opened at Drury Lane in London. It proved a success, and ran for ten nights.

A prologue by William Whitehead mentioned DC 's right to inherit her father's theatrical talent, in spite of her sex: No Salick law here bars the female's claim. It concluded with the statement that critics...

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...

DC wrote from Genoa to David Garrick in England, submitting a manuscript of a blank-verse tragedy which she had based on Voltaire 's Tancrède, 1760. Though she had entertained Garrick at her house, she...