Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, pp. 317-44. 326
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Charlotte Lennox | 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. Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 18 , No. 4, pp. 317-44. 326 Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press. 156n69 |
Textual Production | Anna Maria Mackenzie | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lucas Malet | But the context is still the fashionable jungle. Mr Perry can conceive of no higher glory than wealth and social success, and is ruthless in pursuit of these for his daughter and thus himself. Fat... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Meeke | 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... |
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... |
Textual Production | Nancy Mitford | NM
published Voltaire
in Love, another of her biographical studies. British Book News. British Council. (1957): 762 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Nancy Mitford | 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 It uses then-unpublished letters.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... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Montagu | In a counterblast to Voltaire
, EM
published, anonymously, An Essay on Shakespear. Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable. 1: 217-18 |
Travel | Elizabeth Montagu | 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... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Montagu | 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. Montagu, Elizabeth. Essay on Shakespear. J. Dodsley. title-page |
Occupation | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
acted as patron to a number of writers (all male so far as is known), most notably Richard Savage
and Henry Fielding
, but also Edward Young
and Samuel Boyse
. Books to which... |
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 | 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. |
Education | C. E. Plumptre | Though nothing is know of CEP
's early education, in later life she kept an extensive library. On visiting her, Frederick James Gould
noted that it was selected and arranged in an impressive order which... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Richardson |
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