Wexler, Joyce Piell. Laura Riding: A Bibliography. Garland.
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Standard Name: Voltaire
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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| 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... |
| Textual Production | Laura Riding | Voltaire
: A Biographical Fantasy, a long poem by Laura Gottschalk (later LR
), was published by the Hogarth Press
. |
| Textual Production | Sarah Austin | 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 .... |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Nancy Mitford | NM
published Voltaire
in Love, another of her biographical studies. British Book News. British Council. (1957): 762 |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Mary Julia Young | 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. Batchelor, Jennie. Women’s Work: Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1750-1830. Manchester University Press. 161-2 Lloyd, Nicola. “Mary Julia Young. A Biographical and Bibliographical Study”. Romantic Textualities, No. 18. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Griffith | EG
and her husband
both contributed translations to Voltaire
's works in English, issued by William Kenrick
in these years. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 49 (1779): 198 Griffith, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xviii. xxxii |
| 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 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hester Mulso Chapone | The first letter is entitled On the Principles of Religion; HMC
assures her niece that she is one of your warmest friends. Feminist Companion Archive. |
| 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Augusta Ward | 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 |
| 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... |
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