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Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Miller | Along with works of art she describes, but more briefly, the way of life of places she passes through. She has, however, little sympathy with working people's needs. She remarks that actresses and dancers have... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Robert Lee Wolff
argues that this is one of MEB
's very best Wilkie Collins
-style investigations. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 243 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Arabella Rowden | The second part opens with quotations from Cicero
and Voltaire
. Rowden, Frances Arabella. The Pleasures of Friendship. A Poem. 47 Rowden, Frances Arabella. The Pleasures of Friendship. A Poem. 63 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Constance Holme | The title-page quotes W. B. Yeats
: Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams. Holme, Constance. Crump Folk Going Home. Cedric Chivers. title-page |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah More | Several of the Cheap Repository Tracts specifically answer texts by Voltaire
or Paine
. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 147 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | The action of this novel takes place in many different parts of Italy. Its features include a mystery over the heroine's birth (her mother was an escaped nun and her father was burned by... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | This volume finds her canvassing many of the same topics as the one before, and alluding to many of the same authors, though this time (after Ecclesiasticus from the Apocrypha on her title-page) she begins... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sophia King | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | The widely varied quotations heading the chapters include some in Latin (Virgil
, Cicero
, Lucretius
, Horace
) and some in French (Rousseau
, Voltaire
, Marmontel
, and Manon Roland
). The English writers quoted include Mary Robinson
. McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta. |
Literary responses | Anne-Thérèse de Lambert | |
Literary responses | Charlotte Charke | The Gentleman's Magazine devoted more space to CC
's book this year than to any other new work, though these included Johnson
's Dictionary and Voltaire
's History and State of Europe. Baruth, Philip E. “Who Is Charlotte Charke?”. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma, edited by Philip E. Baruth, University of Illinois Press, pp. 9-62. 4 |
Literary responses | Florence Dixie | Ross
's epilogue both praises FD
's work and seeks to recommend it by associating it with Darwin
, John Wesley
, and Voltaire
. Dixie, Florence, and William Stewart Ross. The Story of Ijain. Leadenhall Press. 205-6 |
Literary responses | Marie-Catherine de Villedieu | In her copy of this text (an edition published in 1721 in twelve volumes),Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
wrote: plus delicat que Crebillon
[evidently the younger of this name, famous for erotic fiction], plus amusant... |
Literary responses | Frances Brooke | 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
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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