Voltaire

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Standard Name: Voltaire

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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.
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As in much of MEB 's other fiction in this style, the reader can easily and...
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.
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It includes a picture of connubial love gone sour, turned to mutual wrongs, and mutual hate.
Rowden, Frances Arabella. The Pleasures of Friendship. A Poem.
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Its examples of heroic friendship include...
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.
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The country community where the story is set centres closely on Crump, the great house of the ancient Lyndesay...
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.
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The eponymous Shepherd of Salisbury Plain has an invalid wife, six children, an income of eight shillings a week, and...
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
The novel opens with a philosophical dialogue (between males) which makes reference to Voltaire , Hume , Rousseau , and Godwin 's Caleb Williams. Its subtitle sounds like a pointer to autobiographical content, and...
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
Both Fénelon and Voltaire praised ATL 's ability and achievements (in contexts where they did not need to flatter her).
Hayley, Eliza, and Anne-Thérèse de Lambert. “Introductory Letter to William Melmoth, Esq”. Essays on Friendship and Old-Age, Dodsley, pp. 5-34.
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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.
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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.
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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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