Gaius Julius Caesar

Standard Name: Caesar, Gaius Julius

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Education Mary Somerville
The summer Mary was thirteen she lived at Jedburgh and there, from her Liberal uncle Thomas Somerville , found her first significant intellectual encouragement: for the first time in my life, I met ....
Literary Setting Sarah Pearson
An introductory address To the Reviewers urges them (with the trembling deemed appropriate for a woman writer) not to read the book in the morning but in the period of good humour after dinner.
Pearson, Susanna. The Medallion. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1794, 3 vols.
1: 7-8
Occupation Dora Carrington
Carrington produced decorative arts for the Omega Workshops (which Fry also started) in 1913.
Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press, 1994.
38
He asked for her help with restorations on Mantegna 's The Triumphs of Caesar at Hampton Court Palace in 1917.
Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press, 1994.
38
Performance of text George Bernard Shaw
Mrs Patrick Campbell 's Company first performed GBS 's history play Caesar and Cleopatra, at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
xxiii
Innes, Christopher. Modern British Drama, 1890-1990. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
23
Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982.
Textual Features Richmal Crompton
RC 's own interest in psychic manifestations makes it puzzling that she so comprehensively mocked belief in spiritualism and reincarnation in the William stories. In her 1922 story William and the Ancient Souls, for...
Textual Features Jane Harvey
This too begins like a guidebook. JH quotes Ann Radcliffe , and mentions the celebrated Lady Anne Clifford , the castle's best-known owner.
Harvey, Jane. Brougham Castle. A. K. Newman, 1816, 2 vols.
1: 5
Lady Anne died at Brougham, one of the best-loved...
Textual Production Phyllis Bentley
PB published her only fiction not set chiefly in Yorkshire, Freedom, Farewell!, an allegorical historical novel which likens the reign of Julius Caesar to contemporary fascist regimes.
Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 191. Gale Research, 1998.
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Textual Production A. Mary F. Robinson
AMFR signed the foreword to A Short History of France from Caesar 's Invasion to the Battle of Waterloo, which was published under her married name in 1918.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Loudon
The introductory chapter opens with Mrs Seymour's two daughters running into difficulties with synchronicity. One is astonished that Homer and Solomon were at least near-contemporaries; the other could not think who was king of France...

Timeline

By November 1754: David Hume published at Edinburgh the first...

Writing climate item

By November 1754

David Hume published at Edinburgh the first volume of his History of Great Britain (called in most later editions The History of England).
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2 (1756): 385-404
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
24 (1754): 533; 29 (1759): 133
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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